the normal content is too easy

[Hurlstone]

I disagree that the content of the game is 'to easy' as difficulty is subjective and not every player should have to play for challenge, but I do think it would be cool if more harder solo optional challenges where added. I have always liked the idea of a 'Hardcore' New Game+ where we could tackle the MSQ under more difficult circumstance, perhaps to get some nice cosmetic rewards from it.

[Darthgummibear]

I disagree that the content of the game is 'to easy' as difficulty is subjective and not every player should have to play for challenge, but I do think it would be cool if more harder solo optional challenges where added. I have always liked the idea of a 'Hardcore' New Game+ where we could tackle the MSQ under more difficult circumstance, perhaps to get some nice cosmetic rewards from it.

This would be pretty awesome.

[Bobby66]

I do hope the newer difficultly tier of 4 man content SE goes balls to the wall with affixes.

Job balance for dungeons will also be interesting, cause depending on what they do or aet of challenges offers we could see a sustain, are etc . . . Meta or comps come forth.

[Banriikku]

In a game accessibility do not mean lesser difficulty. By no means...
It means, possibilty to reach this content. Simply reducing difficulty will result in accessibility but the price is engagement and as a result the content will become repetitve and pointless.

In my opinion the content needs a skill floor definition and this can not be "i can turn on the pc".

Also regarding the argument Success:
Success is not defined by how many player log in or how many accounts beeing made. It is a combination of many things together. If you are looking only for one metric you will get a lot of problems on your hand as a dev. I like the free trial campaign but this is not a success metric on it self - its free and no money is made from this directly only if its succeeds and the player starts paying.
An online game needs new but also old players or it will starve in the long run.

WoW used to only to cater for the veterans as an extreme but FF14 goes just the other extreme and only looks out for the newcomers. Both decisions are not good and will result in problems. I hope the new dungeon is a result of the dev team recognizing this problem and giving the old and new players alike stuff in the future.

[Godzillaxpowerrangers]

I remember when steeps was new and how it was a decent challenge but then they nerfed it because it was road blocking so many. Same for uncle cid in monastery.

[EnigmaticDodo]

You are preaching to the choir.

The choir hears you, yet cannot sing your song.

We all languish.

Welcome to the state of the game.


I feel like it's better to give up at this point, but people who are better than I fight on. I cheer for you. I hope for the best. That's only so much though.

Good luck!

[Avatre]

They definitely need to adjust things to slowly increase difficulty as you progress. Right now, everything feels flat for the curve, rather than going up steadily as you go along. We shouldn't be able to do a lot of the half paying attention that is happening a lot of the time.

Not to mention adjusting rewards from some roulettes, or the way they work entirely, to make it so the higher duties actually start popping more than 1/10 of the time(if that often).

[angienessyo]

I think the last time we had normal content that everyone at the time thought was challenging was Shinryu normal. And when that trial was relevant there was constant threads about how it was too hard and the devs shouldn't make story content difficult. So I don't see them cranking up the difficulty again for normal stuff any time soon.

[benji42]

I definitely agree about things being over-telegraphed. One of the best experiences I've ever had in a dungeon was Tam Tara hard. There were 3 new players and it was really fun explaining how the fights worked instead of them just being able to go in blind like most others. The other players actually had fun because we talked?? i know crazy that happens in an MMO lol. It's not even a hard dungeon. The way dungeons work now just stifles any positive social interaction

[MonteCristo]

I definitely agree about things being over-telegraphed. One of the best experiences I've ever had in a dungeon was Tam Tara hard. There were 3 new players and it was really fun explaining how the fights worked instead of them just being able to go in blind like most others. The other players actually had fun because we talked?? i know crazy that happens in an MMO lol. It's not even a hard dungeon. The way dungeons work now just stifles any positive social interaction

I had a similar experience recently just like this