If you continue to dumb down the game, you will lose half your player base

[Kewitt]

Sadly there are more players who don't care how well they play than there are players who always do their best.

Take my hubby,
Ya he has cleared some EX content back in the day.
But if I want to clear content I can't run with him.

I meld, I use food.
He only melds after I tell him too.
He never uses food.

He just doesn't care and he is having fun playing the game the way he is playing it.
I'm having fun with the way I play it.

But I do EX content without him because he doesn't want to have to play perfectly.

So roulettes and whatnot we play together. Harder content we don't.

[anhaato]

I guarantee all the people raging at "hardcore players" for wanting job complexity back have been called out for their poor performance in the past and are unable to let it go. This is like their Joker moment.

[Sqwall]

Sadly there are more players who don't care how well they play than there are players who always do their best.

Take my hubby,
Ya he has cleared some EX content back in the day.
But if I want to clear content I can't run with him.

I meld, I use food.
He only melds after I tell him too.
He never uses food.

He just doesn't care and he is having fun playing the game the way he is playing it.
I'm having fun with the way I play it.

But I do EX content without him because he doesn't want to have to play perfectly.

So roulettes and whatnot we play together. Harder content we don't.

This is my point. Not everyone want's the same thing as the VERY few that engage in Savage/ultimate. Some are just content with having fun with small snippets of the game.

I like to run savage as the highest I would like to go. Ultimate doesn't appeal to me as I just don't want that kind of stress or focused dedication. Savage prog is the right amount of hardship I care to subject myself to. EX is fun as it's low level of prog with great way to ease yourself into savage.

Also to your point about food, materia, and I would also throw rotation in there...this is completely subjective. Your husband is right when he doesn't meld or use food as he is simply doing dungeons. SE knows that this content is face roll....so they basically don't make it hard. Criterion dungeons upcoming are for me....give me that harder experience for someone that plays at my level. I hate the duty finder dailies with a passion, but I need to run them because I need the tomes. I hate this. SE has listened and dared to add Unreal back in...criterion dungeons to give a greater challenge.

Kudos to your husband for just doing what makes him happy. That's what this game is about. Fun...and the amount of frustration you want to subject yourself to.

[Lauront]

It’s meant to be a play on the whole “the website that shall not be named” ranking system. Basically, calling him a grey parse player. Just feeding into his stereotype, which is a little unsightly. I assume that is what it correlates to.

Unsightly, perhaps, but given some of his recent "contributions", no doubt well deserved.

[s1mulacrum]

Guys, I think we all know what the solution here is:

Introducing Patch 7.0

We have always said accessibility is our main goal here, and to that end we have made some changes. We hope you enjoy them! Oh and if you don't, please don't criticize our work because it upsets us and we won't listen anyway. K thx bye!

DPS it supposed to DAMAGE. Why do we have all these buttons that don't deal damage???

-DPS all just have one button called "Hurt Bad Man." It does lots of damage.

Healers are called healers for a reason. We shouldn't be making them deal damage!!!

-Healers now get one button called "Kiss Boo-Boos." This heals the whole party to full.

Tanks are supposed to tank stuff. Why do they have other things???

-Tanks now have one button called "No More Ouchies." Now you can focus on tanking!

Now we can get back to the one reason people play this game: to see the consistently-paced high quality story. That's right! You can now play parts of Heavensward and Shadowbringers over and over again!

If we learned one thing from our inspiration WoW, it's that pruning abilities and removing challenge makes for happier players! Because why earn a sense of accomplishment when you can just click one button???

To that end, we have also added "Visual Novel Mode." Gameplay still too hard for you? That's ok. With VNM, you can simply skip all the fights and watch them in cutscenes. You can probably tell that we have been moving in this direction from the amount of action that occurs in cutscenes in our "game", but we decided to really commit this expansion. Who wants to PLAY a game anyway!

Now the game is more accessible for everyone!

Just unsub like I did. This is the direction we are going, and the direction WoW went as well. For as much as Yoshi-P talks about not caring about monthly subs, he isn't in charge (BIG SHOCK). The executives at SE want money and they think the way to get it is doing this. Always more players. I've worked in gaming. You do what you can to make the game as good as you can, but when it runs this long with this kind of business model, this is an inevitability. If you like challenge, there is a universe of games out there for you. If you want to play with your friends, go play Remnant: From the Ashes for a challenge. This game isn't for us.

[Anemic]

Guys, I think we all know what the solution here is:
-Tanks now have one button called "No More Ouchies." Now you can focus on tanking!

"No More Ouchies" made me giggle out loud xD

[Kaurhz]

Unsightly, perhaps, but given some of his recent "contributions", no doubt well deserved.

Yes, both are unsightly and unhealthy to contribution. Thing is the dude perpetuates the stereotype, and then you have people clever enough to try and conform to said stereotype. Personally, I wouldn’t exactly be surprised people holding a mindset against more complexities in the game when on several occasions the forums have used logs to try and discredit opinion, or just to borderline harass. But again, both are unsightly.

[anhaato]

To that end, we have also added "Visual Novel Mode." Gameplay still too hard for you? That's ok. With VNM, you can simply skip all the fights and watch them in cutscenes. You can probably tell that we have been moving in this direction from the amount of action that occurs in cutscenes in our "game", but we decided to really commit this expansion. Who wants to PLAY a game anyway!

This is literally going to happen before 6.5

[RyuDragnier]

Yes, both are unsightly and unhealthy to contribution. Thing is the dude perpetuates the stereotype, and then you have people clever enough to try and conform to said stereotype. Personally, I wouldn’t exactly be surprised people holding a mindset against more complexities in the game when on several occasions the forums have used logs to try and discredit opinion, or just to borderline harass. But again, both are unsightly.

People have been against anything they deem "difficult" since ARR. Look at how people refused to run Pharos Sirius until it got nerfed because it was "too hard", when all it required was for people to pay attention. The first boss was literally designed to teach people to not burn things down all the time, people failed it, and raged because they couldn't just focus the boss and have to kill adds. People got Steps of Faith nerfed because "doing the mechanics" was apparently too hard for people to do (the complaints about how long it takes to reset was valid though). People tried to get Final Steps of Faith nerfed because they felt it was too hard, and tried to do the same thing with Royal Menagerie. DRK in HW was "too hard" and the job got destroyed for it. The playerbase has a massive aversion to anything difficult at all. I know people who refused to run anything with the word "raid" in it until they were force to do Alliance Raids for the main story from 5.3 on.

[Faafetai]

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After reading the patch notes and indeed seeing it going the same direction as many other mmos, I am most likely going to unsub because I am not going to get invested in something that does not care about the people wishing to PLAY. They only care about the people wanting to experience the video game. Taking away skills, making classes boring because there were just too many people with bigger numbers than other people who do not even play anything past the story. Little Timmy wants to clear savage, so instead of making the fights easier for poor little Timmy they will make the class easier.

The real kicker is even when they make this game one button, those players still would not be able to play. It will be too stressful pushing that one button, so they will just make a Tell Tale replica so people can have their 'super kawaii uuuguu cat girl play through a story and look sexy and cool. Finally a custom final fantasy story just for me.' They will think. They will not even notice that the game was suppose to be an mmo. It was suppose to be a video game. And for people with legitimate disabilities an escape, a way to actually enjoy something. To press on beyond challenges. Their character doing things that they can not physically do irl. We get to watch as all of that is reduced to rubble because people want what they can't have. They will never be happy. I can't wait till what else is destroyed Remnant? How many years do we think we have before they migrate from here after realizing everyone they enjoyed tormenting moved to a different game. It is literally always the same.

Might go there anyway so I can actually play a video game and have fun. Is it legit or will it be another lost ark with pay to win micro transactions shoved up my rectum every two seconds?