Don't forget to respond to Oscura. I'm the low-hanging fruit here :P
People also quit over boredom because the game provides them nothing. People quit because they couldn't get their housing. People quit because their friends quit. People quit because the game is too hard. People quit because crafting's new requirements were borderline unreasonable. People quit for a variety of reasons, and as previously noted, they quit both because the game is too easy and the game is too hard. There will never be a world in which nobody is quitting this game, period.
I'd like to think the people on the forums who complain about the game's ease complain because they enjoy the game's combat system, and see a lot of possible depth in it that could be explored but not a lot in the game really asks anything of those deep and complex game mechanics to be used. To them it could be seen as getting a super high end computer with the best components money can buy...only to use it playing pong. It's frustrating because there's so much more a machine like that is capable of.
When people ask for "more difficult" content, I think the major disconnect is they don't want content that is more difficult, they want more content that is difficult. Nobody's asking for Gordias again, but we are asking for more than four to seven instances every other patch, and everything else is mind numbing.
Which MMOs? Was difficult content the core reason people were dropping out? Were there perhaps other problems you weren't considering, but were only paying attention to the difficult content?
Do you think it's possible they were joking? Git gud is a meme, after all, and Gordias especially was a stressful bout of raids. I wouldn't put it past using git gud as a joke to relieve some of that stress. As well, we never did get that JP style blacklist, so it's obvious nobody ever got pushed to the point of making it.And the harder you make it, the more raiders will complain because it's never enough for them; we had people say git gud on forums even with midas or gordias when they were relevant, and at one point on reddit they were talking about a JP style blacklist of players. if they make it harder, in two months the raiders will be back to complaining again that farm parties still suck and duty finder still has ice mages.
So far the only "bad stuff" you said would happen already does, already has, and never will stop, happening. Even more, it happens both for the reason of things being too difficult and for the reason of things being too easy.As for arrogant, whatever. I don't like people who don't think deeply about the changes they propose and handwave or ignore bad stuff.
I hope you realize that, even as you say this, you're a part of that forum culture.i hate forum culture and how it reinforces bad idea or has no historical knowledge of their own game.

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