People Enjoy hard Games

[SquishyPlushie]

There's a non-zero amount of us who want hard content, but only if it's not timegated with a weekly lockout and/or currency cap.

It's not worth dealing with people over timegate, no matter how much you devote to thirsting with exclusive mounts and glamours.

This is why I stopped playing FFXIV for months at a time, even though I started last year.

[Rufalus]

they both outperformed FFXVI which is a story game with incredibly easy gameplay.

Thanks, I needed another excuse to complain about that game.

So I saw a comment on reddit, a guy who actually tried to explore the maps without being prompted to do so. He kept finding odd rooms that look like an event might happen there. Of course they were all empty on first visit. He soon learned that those slightly larger rooms only exist to host battles against hunt marks, ones he hadn't progressed enough to unlock yet. So he just stopped going anywhere until the game explicitly told him to, as it is designed. CBU3 hate exploration, unpredictability, player agency.

[Raikai]

I'm satisfied with the amount of hard content XIV has. Savages (and EX to some extent) are pretty hard to the average player. There's Ultimates, but also Criterion dungeons, although the latter suffers from having a good structure but with awful payoffs. Honorable mention to Deep Dungeon harder levels and solo challenges.

If I could add something to the cache of hard content to run, would be - something - to do at the even patches that is not Ultimate. Maybe they can move Criterion there in Dawntrail, but I like the idea that it can be (if properly managed) a complement for the raid patch. An actual 'perfect even patch' for me would have something more out of the box when it comes to harder content, like Delubrum Reginae Savage, and since they hinted that a Field Mission is a possibility for DT, there's hope.

What I'm not satisfied with, though, is job design and the 2 minute meta and how it's basically the source of all the recent 'dumbing down'.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

Yet Summoner was a low played job before its rework. Now it's one of the most played Jobs.

The people have spoken.

[Rolder50]

Yet Summoner was a low played job before its rework. Now it's one of the most played Jobs.

The people have spoken.

People flocking to a job because it's easy does not mean the job is good. The easiest job will always have the most players.

[Supersnow845]

People flocking to a job because it's easy does not mean the job is good. The easiest job will always have the most players.

19 pages of people asking for optional complexity (example BLM a job so easy on the surface but that can be optimised to hell and back) and job depth and people still come on and say “but SMN popular” as if they just had an ascended epiphany we are all just too stupid to understand

[VentVanitas]

Yet Summoner was a low played job before its rework. Now it's one of the most played Jobs.

The people have spoken.

it... it wasn't unpopular. it did not even come close to other jobs like BRD, MNK, SCH or AST in ShB. please don't just make random shit up

[Aravell]

Yet Summoner was a low played job before its rework. Now it's one of the most played Jobs.

The people have spoken.

The only thing being spoken by the people in that case is that there's a lot of reasons to pick SMN. What people don't seem to realise is that not everyone who plays SMN enjoys it. Just like how not everyone who did Eureka enjoyed it.

[redheadturk]

The only thing being spoken by the people in that case is that there's a lot of reasons to pick SMN. What people don't seem to realise is that not everyone who plays SMN enjoys it. Just like how not everyone who did Eureka enjoyed it.

I am someone who currently plays SMN on a few alts that *misses* the way it used to play. give me back my freaking dots, SE!