Rathalos EX

[kikix12]

Garo wasn't skill gated, and it rewarded trying out the different modes of pvp.

If I do remember well, part of that does include actual wins for the mounts. I may be wrong though. As I said I didn't really care about the event at the time.
If yes, then that is actual skill gating in much the same way as this. Eventually you'll win in PvP...like eventually you'll kill Rathalos.

It also reinvigorated certain modes in the game, modes that were really neglected, and a lot of people stuck with pvp because of it.

Go ahead and show me where I said that the events I brought up were good or bad?! I said that they forced people to do stuff they did not want to do if they wanted to get the rewards. That is very much true.

You think that this will be different?! That it won't draw people that don't touch extreme modes into playing it?! That there won't be players for which it'll be the first actual extreme done without unsynced feature that will start doing harder content afterwards?! As I said, you are creating your own setting to complain, your own narrative. Something that have nothing to do with reality.

Reality is that this event offers quite a lot of value in comparison to majority of events in FFXIV, catering to larger part of the community than many of the previous ones. Larger doesn't mean everyone...but then again...there is no event, no game, no mechanic that will cater to everyone. Hand everyone good stuff?! People that want to earn stuff will hate it. Have people work for stuff?! People that want to take it easy will hate it. Don't give any stuff past the story?! People that want rewards for living will hate it.