Quote Originally Posted by Ametrine View Post
Part of the issue, too, is the vocal group of players that claw about for harder and harder content despite it blocking off the casual playerbase. But we can't think of the casuals as the one's who just spam 2 or 3 skills without a care. That's not the average player. And anyone into FFXIV enough to use the forum isn't a "casual" player either. We need to keep that in mind.
Oh, there should absolutely be a range of content for all tiers of player. It's important to have everything from extremely casual to extremely hardcore content. The key to WoW's success is embracing both ends of the spectrum and everything in between.

This not only gives a high number of players something to do on the casual end but gives the game "street cred" on the hardcore side. The contest to be world first in content being as big as possible involves a relatively small number of players but still garners a sizable amount of attention.

Again, "something for everyone" is the best tagline an MMO can live up to, and XIV is definitely getting there.