Quote Originally Posted by Jokerz View Post
Seriously wtf.

I played FFXI casually and managed to get through sea with a casual static. I really don't understand these generalizations you are making and wondering if you just made some up(specially the bit about about noobs in sea)

You did not need certain class combinations to get through CoP. Well, I guess you did, you'd need a healer, tank, buffer, and rest dps. A standard pt.....Really what was difficult about the mission line? It sounds like the difficulty came from peoples inability to make friends and that's not a issue with the game.

That last point is the worst type of generalization, I don't really want to touch it.
What you managed to personally accomplish is irrelevant. The numbers SE published progressively at every Census did not lie. CoP Was abhorrently difficult to the vast majority of the base. You don't adjust the difficulty of something twice before ultimately lifting the level cap on it when the content was capable of being completed 'casually'.

I ran several statics to get people across and I heard so many copies of the 'tried and true' methods that would fail miserably over and over again and dishearten so many players. I put my personal progression in the game on hold for years so I could get people through the bottlenecks in that crushed so many. (I was even featured on a FFXIs web-comic attributing to my penchant for Promy statics - the first of a few media appearances.) I knew the exceptions, I knew the stragities, I got some of the oddest job combinations through it. But never did I insult the content by calling it easy not when I personally saw how it frustrated so many people (and have had friends who quit over it).

As far as the "Noobs in MY Sea." You obviously have not followed forums much. I could likely go fishing for the exact conversation if I cared enough to do so. Elitism in FFXI was and still is standard fare. I don't need to prove that.

The point is you're defending the mechanics that enabled that sort of mentality, regardless of whether or not you're being truthful in claiming yourself an exception to the rule.

As far as my last 'generalization'. I could be very specific, but I've already done my finger pointing to the GMs and the STG.