FFXIV too easy or too hard?

[Dragonblanco]

Generally, the difficulty in XIV comes from a lack of tutorials and constructive learning experiences in entry level content.
The lack of difficulty comes from there being only one kind of challenge in this game, pattern memorization and execution. Once you get practiced in that one skill, the game can't really ask anything more of you.

I agree. First encountering and learning mechanics often makes it the biggest struggle. I will say the number of mechanics they have and how they combine do often make it interesting and hard to get to, especially if you're a person who doesn't have a fast response time. Honestly, if I wanted one where it's how quick you can aim, dodge, and whatever else I'd probably be more into FPS and all. I get into MMORPG for the strategy and exploration. In that aspect though, I wish they could let bosses be played by AI or that they'd at least randomize mechanics, so you never know what's coming. Could you imagine a machine learning thing implemented and bosses learn player mechanics, then reacts? haha. Now that would be a true extreme mode and would let it be a living dungeon, never really giving you the same experience twice.

[*]Buying a house

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOTTERY IS GOING TO SOLVE NOTHING. It's not "hard" it's just BS. There is no agency in buying a house right now, nor after a lottery is implemented, so difficulty cannot be applied.

Agreed

[*]Socializing (making friends)

Ugh. As a social butterfly I find it just a drag to try to talk to new people in this game. I WANT to, but it's just not worth it since my only way to interface with people is through a tiny portion of the corner of my screen that people have to stop what they're doing to look at. I'm really not going to bother trying to get people's attention anymore without player speech bubbles. I'll stick to discord if this game wants me to exclusively use a scrolling chat box.

Haha, I'm kind of the opposite. My social skills suck and I'm usually introverted. That said, I do often talk to new players and help teach them the basics. I have found socialization in XIV to be lacking. It was awesome while I was in Novice Network, but then once you get booted from it for level and content progression, you're left with no real talk in channels except for maybe your own FC. Even then, so many people get focused on just finishing content that I don't see people actually talking and having fun. I rate this typically as too hard because they don't give a lot of ways to encourage interaction. Especially since there's no "General" or "World" chat.

[*]Special Events

Hit and miss. I prefer when there's some kind of minigame to play (or, more preferably, a variety) instead of a quest where you just talk to a bunch of people and then get handed a thing. Some events do it right, some events just kind of want to get themselves over with too fast. Feels less like an event and more like a limited time cutscene.

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Yeah, I've not really played long enough to see many. I started around like April I think. So I was here for Easter and it wasn't bad. But beyond that it's been kind of quiet. When I compare events here to what I remember back when I played FFXI like 15-17 years ago, events here are much more lackluster. They don't decorate much, have very few things to participate in, etc. Yet this is an area I can't really speak on.