Server rules for different player demographics

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We need servers with different rulesets. Then everyone can just choose the service they want/prefer instead of having to put up with other people's ideas of a good game which conflict with your own (and the original vision of FFXIV too)

Anyone else get the distinct impression this bit in bold is the real motivation behind this thread? I mean, considering how often "ellohwell" bashes Yoshi's direction and longs for the days that Tanaka was driving the game into the ground with one poorly conceived and almost unanimously derided decision after another?

Basically, there are too many competing interests of FF fans and MMO players that just end up ruining the game overall for everyone. So separate servers with different rulesets are needed.

Could you please, for once, speak for yourself and stop presuming to speak for "everyone"? Is that possible?

No, it does not end up ruining "the game for everyone overall". It only "ruins the game" for those like yourself who think everything should revolve around what they want, or it's no good. It ruins it for those who, like you, refuse accept that there are going to be things in life that they're not going to like - however much they might want to.. and that it's okay; no crime's been committed because some company produced something you don't like. It "ruins it" for people who, like you, refuse to move on from something they clearly and demonstrably do not like, complain about constantly... but yet still stick around, just to complain some more.

Believe it or not, there are who people who, though they may not like everything in the game, can find enough they do like to keep playing and having fun. Believe it or not, there are people out there who find things enjoyable, even though "ellohwell" can't conceive that different opinions really do exist and that others could possibly like something they don't.

They should implement a PvP server, hardcore server, casual server, a server with lighter restrictions (see Optimal Rank and Favoured Class system).

Right. Multiply the task of creating new rulesets, balancing content, balancing classes/jobs and creating different versions of content to cater to each group. Yeah.. sure... let's take the already thankless job SE has of trying to balance the game as well as they can to cover different playstyles in XIV's current form to the satisfaction of as many people as possible... and quadruple it. 'cause, you know... they don't have quite enough whining from folks, like yourself, in the game as it is.

You do realize that everyone has their own idea of what "hardcore", "PvP", "casual" is? There is no "one size fits all" definition. And, no... your definition isn't it.

Do you ever stop to think about some of the stuff you come up with objectively or critically before posting it? Do you even try? Or do you consider every thought you come up with as "brilliant", simply because you thought of it?

And everyone will live happily after.

Conjecture.

It would work great for you. That does not mean it would automatically work great "for everybody".

Again, stop presuming to speak for everyone else.

It's a bit presumptuous to make MMOs around a one-size-fits-all policy.

No, it's not presumptuous. It's called "Nothing is for everybody", a very basic concept that applies to countless things.

SE is creating a specific experience, intended for a specific demographic of people. If you don't happen to fall into that demographic or find that you don't agree with the game they're creating.. that's fine. There are plenty others who do like the direction they're going.

I realize by now, after having read myriad posts/threads by you, that you find it impossible to believe that people could possibly just not automatically agree with everything you say, and that they might actually have different opinions, likes, dislikes and ideas. Now, I realize you find that idea intolerable and unacceptable, and have a history of lashing out at people freely for merely daring to disagree with you.. I've read enough of your stuff here to realize that loud and clear.

But maybe... just maybe... somewhere down the road, when you've grown up, your mind has opened and the blinders have fallen away, you'll realize that no, the world really doesn't revolve around what "elohwell" thinks and, no, you really don't, and couldn't speak for everybody.