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

[Kazhar]

Everytime harder content is added outside of savage it is avoided at all costs, even by raiders. Orbonne was and even with the echo they added it's avoided in the roulette, and the criterion dungeons are a ghost town. So why would they increase difficulty of content all of the players have to do when the optional things are never run.

It has nothing to do with what you say and everything to do with rewards and this is the reason SE's hands are tied.
Why would people want to bother running Orbonne in their daily roulette when CT gives the same rewards for half the time? When faced with the possibility players will often choose the path of least resistance.
Which is why SE can't significantly increase the difficulty of any content in DF or else people will just dodge or do they hardest to not unlock it.

[SieyaM]

It has nothing to do with what you say and everything to do with rewards and this is the reason SE's hands are tied.
Why would people want to bother running Orbonne in their daily roulette when CT gives the same rewards for half the time? When faced with the possibility players will often choose the path of least resistance.
Which is why SE can't significantly increase the difficulty of any content in DF or else people will just dodge or do they hardest to not unlock it.

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?

[Kazhar]

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?

Did you even read my post?
I never said anything about wanting to increase the difficulty of content, I just said that your argument that difficult content can't be popular is faulty.
Difficult content could be implemented if the rewards follow, but being part of the roulette system makes it really difficult for Square Enix.

[SieyaM]

Did you even read my post?

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

[Kazhar]

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

It's a well-known fact that the #1 complaint people have about Criterion is the lackluster reward structure. And I did mention it.

[AwesomeJr44]

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

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

[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.