The difficulty of Normal Content in this game needs to increase.

[Midareyukki]

So you want the to increase the difficulty of everything because why? Are the rewards going to get better or are you wanting people to just work harder for what they are already getting?

...He only said "If Square increases the difficulty of something, people will try to take the easiest way out". Because it doesn't matter whether people are for or against it, Square knows that it's not so black and white.
He wasn't advocating for nor against anything...

And it didn't explain at all why criterion, which is a deliberate attempt by them to provide more difficult content, is completely abandoned.

He mentioned the rewards on the first sentence. Which is the reason most point to to explain why that's dead content.

The rest was reiterating why difficulty isn't the only factor, and why messing with difficulty isn't straightforward.

[CidHeiral]

Push people out of their comfort zone, Slowly increase the difficulty of content as the expansions go on.

I remember when WoW tried this at the start of Cataclysm with the hopes that players would rise to the occasion, but instead they just threw tantrums until everything got nerfed into the ground again.

Unfortunately the problem here isn't the devs, it's the players. People say they want more difficult normal content, then when it happens they complain until it gets nerfed like Orbonne.

[AnnRam]

How you dare to ask for current content to be harder? what about our anxiety issue? you have ultimates for that, leaves us in peace with our avenues and erp events.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

How you dare to ask for current content to be harder? what about our anxiety issue? you have ultimates for that, leaves us in peace with our avenues and erp events.

Confused. Do you do anevues and erp events or are you upset normal content is too easy?


Cuz it doesn't look like you do the hard content so...
Why is it that seemingly the loudest people complaining about "game being too easy" don't actually engage in the more difficult content?

[Payadopa]

How you dare to ask for current content to be harder? what about our anxiety issue? you have ultimates for that, leaves us in peace with our avenues and erp events.

If people have an anxiety issue then seek out a therapist. I fail to see what that has to do with difficulty in a video game.

[DubiousDisk]

If people have an anxiety issue then seek out a therapist. I fail to see what that has to do with difficulty in a video game.

To parrot off this, I myself have dangerously bad anxiety(like literally had massive chest pains when doing Savage back in Stormblood), and it didn't stop me from doing harder content. There is therapy or if that isn't your fancy, medication for such issue.

As for why I pushed myself to do Savage even though I knew it would bring me genuine pain? I like to live dangerously. (And also Omega is just a cool set of raids)

[Tehmon]

Slightly harder difficulty normal content will just become normal content when you've done it five times. *shrug*

[Adeacia]

Criterion got abandoned because the rewards from it were terrible. People got their first clear (if even) and moved on to other things.

Sounds like people didn't want difficulty then, they just wanted the rewards. Which is pretty typical I've found. People want to brag about doing stuff. They don't care about the actual stuff. Just look at the recent issues about the new ultimate raid.

[TomsYoungerBro]

Sounds like people didn't want difficulty then, they just wanted the rewards. Which is pretty typical I've found. People want to brag about doing stuff. They don't care about the actual stuff. Just look at the recent issues about the new ultimate raid.

Not quite right. People don't want difficulty for nothing. People find fun in difficulty because of the achievement of topping the content. If there aren't any rewards for someone to come back, however, it will more than likely be a one and done or a very rare occurrence of a re-clear. The lack of rewards are an issue of replayability. If you actually did hard content in this game, you would know that after your first clear the content becomes much easier to tackle on re-clears (which removes difficulty)

[Kazhar]

Sounds like people didn't want difficulty then, they just wanted the rewards. Which is pretty typical I've found. People want to brag about doing stuff. They don't care about the actual stuff. Just look at the recent issues about the new ultimate raid.

Please, not this garbage take again.