Please stop asking SE to make FFXIV more easy!

[Monos]

Please stop asking SE to make FFXIV more easy!
Video Games are for people who have the time to play and put effort in advanceing. Television and movies are for those people who rarely wanna push buttons but still advance in a story.
Some people asking SE to make it even more easy is not right! Just try to imagine people asking the makers of your favorite TV series or movie to make the episodes or the movie shorter because they have no time or patience to watch the whole series, or the movie! Or dumb the whole series or movie down to their level so they can understand it... You would be pissed to to hear such nonsense! So please I ask EVERY NO SKILL / NO TIME players, stop asking SE to make FFXIV more easy, because it's waaay tooo easy already!
Evolution is an important thing in life, if you are not skilled in something you practice, and become better at it, and not asking others to dumb it down, the world (real or virtual) shall not drop down to the limited capabilities of some people, that would be wrong. We shall all work on becomeing better in every way through our life (real or virtual) instead of whineing on problems (real or virtual) we shall overcome the obstacles!

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Stop taking this sort of thing so seriously. You have plenty of other games to play if challenges is what you seek.

[Yukiko]

I thought video games are to have fun in your free time.

So...
2h waiting to get a full group,
1h wiping untill the first one goes,
20 mins to get replacement,
30 mins to get the win...

Thats not what a videogame is ment to be!
If you reduce difficulty to the time spend, you already have lost...
Static patterns and stats are a bad way to create challenge, just one piece of gear outbalanced of the norm and you can skip phases if skilled enough to to more damage than it was originally planed... In add the bosses do not feel like "intelligent" because whatever you do, it ignores you and continues with his static patterns... bosses do not even react on your group settings, we had fun doing some with 8 smn or other odd combinations

Thats where you come to the limits of static programming, the border between too hard and too easy is way too close!
Overpowering HM prmals is a good example, back in 2.0 garuda was as hard as coil now... mostly because we had 1.xx gear...

[Shiki_Lockhart]

Zip

That is normal for a MMO but if you try find friends to play you wouldn't waste any time waiting for party get full nor finding replacements after a few wipes... but I know that hardest hurdle is to find the team to play with.

Edit: oh now I see is you Yukiko lol hi

[MistyMew]

Every player has the right to ask for anything they see fit if they believe it will help the game.

The op has the right to want things harder, maybe I like things just as they are and maybe another wants things eased a lot! We all have the right to suggest , no one has the right to tell.

If I seek a change in what I honestly think would improve the game(like my many housing posts lol) then I will suggest it time and time again , what others think is not relevant. Its cool to see how many may think the same way sure...or those that disagree even,but overall its my suggestion, like it or not lol

But I cant ever tell anyone their wants are wrong and to stop doing so , that's unacceptable

To leave your suggestion on the games difficulty is one thing, to TELL people what to do and not to is...not even worth the forum space.

But to help you there are many other games out there that are far more difficult then ffxiv, I suggest you try one of those
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[Monos]

I don't tell people what to do, I ask people. You see the word "Please"?

[Snugglebutt]

FF14 was designed to be very casual friendly, it caters to that crowd and will continue to do so. There are other games and even MMO's which cater more to the hardcore for example Dark Souls or Wildstar so maybe you should spend more time playing those than playing this one if this one does not float your boat. If I did not enjoy the majority of the game I know I would play something else. Just something to keep in mind.

Make no mistake though that SE will continue to make this one more casual friendly, they will have a tiny part which the hardcore crowd can continue to get their teeth into but the majority of this game is not catered to that crowd, never has and never will be. SE is doing the right thing by making old hard content easier and putting a vast amount of casual friendly content in each patch and expansion while still throwing a time limited bone to the hardcore.

Each patch you may get a new thing which is hard but over time they will always make that content easier as well as making a lot of content not dedicated to the hardcore within each patch, the same will be the case for the expansion. If you do not like the fact SE will continue to make old hard content easier for others then maybe you should think long and hard whether you want to continue playing because that is not going to change.

If you can get over yourself and learn to live with the fact old hard content will be made easier, live with the fact they will always throw you a bone in the form of for example a small piece of hardcore content like coils for example in each patch then stay but if you cannot live with those facts then the problem is with you and not the ethos SE has with the design of this game past, present and future. The problem would be your coming into the game expecting it to be something it was not designed to be.

Even if no-one was asking for old hard content to made easier and everyone obeyed your comment that they shut up, SE would still make it easier themselves because that is how they have always done it and will continue to do so. SE with FF14 makes a casual MMO that throws the hardcore a bone now and again, Wildstar for example went the other way and see how well it turned out for them...

[MageBlack]

Ok, I'll bite. We will stop asking for it to be easier if people stop asking to make it "harder".

(Quotation marks used to denote that no one can agree on what harder means. Grind = Hard? Mechanics = Hard? Open world dungeons = hard? Open world threat = hard? etc)

[Alistaire]

Best thread to post in possibly the worst place to post it.

[Gilraen]

I think the 'hard' people are angrily defending is the same 'hard' that tends to gate content to where only the supra-geared can participate. This level of 'hard' tends to render games niche', which is all well and good if it's free to play and getting the supra-gear is as simple as a 5 dollar purchase. This is a subscription game, not only is everyone paying to play, their 10 dollars a month also affords them the right to any and all content they wish to enjoy. If said content winds up gated behind supra-gear gates, then those people clearly aren't getting their money's worth and will either quit playing till the supra-gear becomes available by other means or just quit. This can mean less subscriptions, which means less money coming in and a shorter lifespan for the game.

So, that said, do you want things to be 'harder'?