How Do You Feel When Old Content Is Made Easier?

[Aster_E]

It depends on the content. If it's something like Triple Triad, where more keeps getting added to it over time, then I really wouldn't mind increased drop rates. *Glares at a couple cards that still refuse to drop for her no matter how often she massacres those NPCs* ...Likewise, I'm fine with some older NPCs become a smidge easier to defeat as we get more, better cards to work with. (Chaos is still garage, past or present content, however)

If we're talking dungeons and raids then I'm fine, to an extent, with seeing how much our characters have grown compared to old challenges. Like, I laugh at the ease of the first four Turns of Coil, and probably might with T5 if latency didn't hold me back against a certain add in the last phase, while soloing. *shrugs*

[Sacred_Nym]

To me if content isn't the latest in its series, there isn't a reason to care. Hard content for me is about the accomplishment of clearing it on content, and once it's a patch or two old, it's not on content anymore, and even if it's still hard it doesn't feel like something I should bother with anymore even if I still have reasons to go into it. So no, I don't care if it gets nerfed. Let the lesser skilled players have their honest crack at it. There's new stuff for the higher skilled players to go for.

[Brightamethyst]

For older content, who cares? Content being made easier later on doesn't somehow invalidate the work you put into it when it was current.

[Dzian]

How does it devalue it?

Because it eliminates the prestige. Which is one of the biggest driving forces of the human race.

It's like owning an Aston Martin for example quite prestigious normally... doesn't mean avthingbif the entire stat owns one...

Prestige is a massive human motivator. Because it's something virtually everyone seeking one form or another

[Vidu]

Because it eliminates the prestige. Which is one of the biggest driving forces of the human race.

It's like owning an Aston Martin for example quite prestigious normally... doesn't mean avthingbif the entire stat owns one...

Prestige is a massive human motivator. Because it's something virtually everyone seeking one form or another

I'd think about it more like fashion - its cool and new and prestige (and expensive) when its the most recent collection.
And then it goes on sale and more people can afford it and the next year theres a new high fashion thats cool and prestige.

I dont really see why the prestige from clearing those fights should be indefinetly - actually, that would work against your driving force here: if you've proven yourself once, you can just lay back. The old content getting easier and new, difficult content being introduced your motivator kicks in again. You're not getting to rest on your ARR-laurels forever.

[HyoMinPark]

Because it eliminates the prestige. Which is one of the biggest driving forces of the human race.

It's like owning an Aston Martin for example quite prestigious normally... doesn't mean avthingbif the entire stat owns one...

Prestige is a massive human motivator. Because it's something virtually everyone seeking one form or another

If the only reason (general) you value your synced clears is to basically hold yourself above others who do not have synced clears, well, then that sounds like more of a personal problem, with all due respect. If your clear is devalued just because others put in less work and effort for theirs, then there probably wasn’t much stock in it beforehand; at least not much beyond just holding it over the heads of others. Someone clearing the content unsynced shouldn’t devalue your hard effort, nor take it away from you. It doesn’t change that you “worked harder” or “earned your clear more than they did” at the end of the day. That is, only if you don’t let it.

Someone clearing A11S now in Patch 4.3 doesn’t devalue my clear of it when it was relevant. Someone clearing Neo in 5.0 doesn’t devalue my clear in 4.1; same with God Kefka. Same with UCoB/UwU when I clear them. It doesn’t change that I put in a ton of time and effort into clearing it when it was relevant, and it doesn’t devalue my experience nor my achievement. Because I don’t let it, but also because I don’t look to hold my achievements over the heads of other people. My achievements are for myself.

That’s my opinion on it.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Because it eliminates the prestige. Which is one of the biggest driving forces of the human race.

It's like owning an Aston Martin for example quite prestigious normally... doesn't mean avthingbif the entire stat owns one...

Prestige is a massive human motivator. Because it's something virtually everyone seeking one form or another

Perhaps for some. Plenty of others don't been gratification from other people. Speaking only for myself, I still have the spear I won from Nidhogg. Why? He was my first clear on actually difficult content. And I cleared him literally an hour before 3.4's maintenance. I couldn't give a hoot about his bird, but that spear is something I'll have until the day I quit or the game goes down. I prog content for myself. Are the rewards nice? Of course. But they aren't why I do the content. They're simply a nice bonus.

[MistakeNot]

Because it eliminates the prestige. Which is one of the biggest driving forces of the human race.

It's like owning an Aston Martin for example quite prestigious normally... doesn't mean avthingbif the entire stat owns one...

Prestige is a massive human motivator. Because it's something virtually everyone seeking one form or another

That assumes other people care. When it comes to in-game achievments they don't care.
Nobody cares if you beat Coil when it was brand-new and the hardest thing in the game, or if you did it unsynced and just skipped all mechanics. Or if you haven't done it at all.

In short, there is no prestige involved - because nobody cares what other people have done or not done.

[Okamimaru]

It's just how things work... you get stronger as you progress and so does your gear so you can deal with the next challenge... we can level and ilvl sync most stuff... and anything else just level sync and swap gear to ironworks gear... boom, no longer faceroll... tho I think new people should run content as designed so they can learn mechanics for later fights...

[InkstainedGwyn]

I always find it interesting to hear the differences in pov between the "I did it and nobody else should ever be allowed to do it easier"s and the "I'm in it for the challenge and once I've moved on I don't care"s.