Quote Originally Posted by ssunny2008 View Post
This means nothing. There are a bunch of reasons why FF14 has a large playerbase and none of them is that the game does a better job than other especially gameplay-wise.
That's weird, since it's one of the major elements repeatedly cited by all the WoW gameplay-centric raider folks who come over, how much they love the gameplay.
- They cater the masses, not gamers, which is a serious issue of this game, but the most here seem to be happy with nothing but some bling-bling. Gameplay-wise this game is becoming easier and easier to the point that it just sucks.
If you think the last seven MSQ trials we've gotten are easier than the ones in ARR, HW, SB (original Shinryu notwithstanding)... I dunno what to tell you. Four of them have hard chokepoints that regularly wipe bad pugs to this very day.

(Just my personal opinion, but if we would compare the number of active GAMERS in FF14 to other MMO´s, FF14 would lose hard. I would never count ppl who run through games like this like it´s a singleplayer-game, or others who just want to feel happy to show others their new glam or because someone gifted them with a new little pet.)
No one cares about one-true-way "GAMER" rhetoric.