Adding risk to the game?

[Hazama999]

Risk? Doubt much of that will be added. The game is already rife with conveniences. The playerbase will simply not have it.

[Granyala]

This game is pretty safe content wise. Is there a way we couldd introduce bigger content with higher risk?

Good.
I played Diablo III on hardcore and the end was always the same: some instagib combo I could do nothing against or some random lag spike.

Yeah not interested in these things in online games.
As an option? Sure.
Tied to penultimate rewards? No thank you.

[Eldevern]

Hum... let me think about it a little... thanks but no.

Between trolls, bad players and entitled pseudo-pgm, thanks but I will pass.

[Vnolan]

That's lazy and poor game design. The player is more than capable of adding such difficulty if they wanted it. Pick something with some challenge and add a penalty for not completing certain goals. Doing weekly savage runs? Restart from the first floor if you wipe on any of the above floors. You could toss away a large sum of gil if you die or prevent yourself from rolling on loot (assuming it's entirely your fault) while doing savage weeklies or EX farm parties.

and Eureka that punishes you for dying, needless to say, at least in Eureka, this isn't popular at all

And it wasn't even implemented properly. Unless you were in a dead instance or ventured far into the map on the first day, you had to go out of your way to get deleveled. Imagine if they made it an automatic loss of xp on death.

[Xatsh]

Risk will never be added back into a mmo from a AAA company.

Risk =/= casual gameplay.
Thus risk = less subs (mainly casual gamers) = less money

But in all honesty the games are ultra shallow without any risk. Rewards and clearing hard bosses feel honestly almost meaningless in ffxiv compared to those in say Lineage, FFXI, EQ, AA.

[Musashidon]

i mean risk would be 100x better than mahjong so i would be completely fine if it was added.

course i would much rather see monopoly added myself. that or candyland as i mean who doesn't like candy land?

[MintnHoney]

To my knowledge, the most risky content that they've added into the game, is Eureka.

I believe there is a place in FFXIV for risky content, I just think that the FFXIV design team is not up to the task as they currently are.

[Eldevern]

FFXIV is a RPG oriented, not some hack'n'slash or e-sport oriented game. The game maybe looks too easy, but it has to let some place for people for their own RP.

And apart of BA, Eureka is not really challenging. You can wipe, yes, so what? Eureka is not what I call fun or risky.

O! I can be killed by some random trash around the area. So fun!
Really?

You want risk and challenge, apart of fair PVP, there's nothing that could be considered as a challenge. Is PK of low level player some kind of risk when you are overstuffed and they are both beginner and unstuffed?

A real "risk" is some kind of PVP with rift system that lead you randomly in an area leveled between -5 and +5 from your level. THIS is risky it challenges both your luck and your skill.

[Gemina]

What some players define as "risky", I often define as a nuisance. You really need to be more specific OP, and avoid using derogatory/condescending terms like "care bear" if you want to have a constructive discussion about it.

An example of a common suggestion that grates my nerves is a more risky and dangerous outer world when we are exploring. I definitely understand the desire to have a more interactive outer world, but any hardcore gatherer and/or fisher will tell you that danger is just one of several elements needed for that. Getting from one area to the next without flight should not require covert stealth tactics or assistance from higher level players like the days of old.

However, it would be pretty cool if open world maps had enclosures that inhibits flight, or even mounts all together. They could make such places more dangerous if the rewards for traversing them are worth it the risk of sending you right back to your home point.

[Mightion]

I already played Everquest back in 2000 when you could lose a corpse, delevel, have to run back through hostile territory gearless unless and until a cleric came by with their epic weapon... not going back on that ride (even though they did add features like graveyards to the planes...).