Difficulty of normal content.

[jdtuggey]

I did check all three videos, they didn't raised any point that was already posted here a dozen times. Or maybe the posters here are parroting the videos? What came first? the streamer or the simp? We will never know.
All I know I was used for rage bait, and people took the bait and asked for seconds.

You don't know anything about me, xenos, arthras and mrhappy.
You don't know anything about everyone who posted here.
Your arguments are fueled by assumptions and confirmation bias. :P

[PGnrtN7]

If you're 5 expansions in without using a story skip and can't handle the stuff MSQ throws at you in DT idk what to tell you you're probably just bad at the game lol. None of the new stuff is crazy difficult in comparison to previous expansions it's just different types of mechanics other than "don't stand in big orange circle"

[DanielleFarlow]

Yup, seems that instead of taking advices (even if they are passive agressive), all boiled down to "i am a victim of target harassement of big streamers".

Point is still simple - normal raids are not hard, but now actually require you to pay attention and actually play the game, like many of players actually wanted.

OP's concern is genuine and valid, but you don't need to ask developers to backtrack their changes. And the point of "hardcore players already have their content" is naive at best and hypocritical at worst.

[jdtuggey]

OP's concern is genuine and valid

I actually agree with this and I'd say most would. It's fine if he's struggling. Hell I'd be willing to sit down and help if I came across someone who has genuine difficulty with this content. I do so on a daily basis with people.
The problem I see here myself is the attitude ? This belief that it's other people's fault, that this "difficulty increase" will harm the game, the shifting of his personal responsibility, the misrepresentation of people that disagree that the content is too hard, the lack of willingness to put in any effort, the way he speaks about how his only option is to get carried by others if he's gonna do at all... This is the real problem in OP's post I think.

Think if it was formulated with an open mind in a "I'm struggling and I'm looking for solutions, I feel the game is leaving me behind" way instead of an authoritative statement about how the game is too hard now and it needs to be fixed, he would've never gotten covered by any of these streamers, and he would've probably been swarmed in game with people looking to help. Only genuine trolls would be here putting him down for that, and he'd be right to call them that.

If he was inclusive and empathized with my perspective, I would with his, but no, he chose to alienate people like me, and when you spit against the wind, well, you know. Personal responsibility, again.

[Dovaah]

I did check all three videos, they didn't raised any point that was already posted here a dozen times. Or maybe the posters here are parroting the videos? What came first? the streamer or the simp? We will never know.
All I know I was used for rage bait, and people took the bait and asked for seconds.

If you checked the videos, you would have heard that Xeno mentioned that he's not other people and that said people have a lot of different difficulties with the content. He acknowledged your point. You're just playing the victim card for brownie points now.

Come down from your high horse, a game for everyone is a game for no one.

[PurebloodPriscilla]

OP's concern is genuine and valid

This is such a nothing statement. You might as well write "thoughts & prayers", I don't know why you felt the need to add it to your post.

Sometimes people's opinions are not valid, especially when they stem from someone's active refusal to learn and improve.

[Conando]

No

It's people correcting your dogwater opinion. What do reviews from game journalists who have written their reviews BEFORE the raids released who have to rush all the content to review it on time have ANYTHING to do with the difficulty, as a matter of fact it stands against your point because unlike the op and several other people here, they actually managed to finish the mandatory MSQ dungeons to write this review on time. Think about it, you guys are being outpaced by game journalists, I did not think a lower point in gaming existed.

I mean honestly, Game Journos always finish the latest Fromsoft game in like 4 days and without a guide. So it's kind of funny to see people act like none of them can play video games to this day.

[jdtuggey]

I mean honestly, Game Journos always finish the latest Fromsoft game in like 4 days and without a guide. So it's kind of funny to see people act like none of them can play video games to this day.

I do see journalists like that, but I also see journalists throwing the game down the bin because they slapped Varre and he slapped back in the way Elden Ring does. :P
(Yes, am aware this guy is a content creator, just wanted to keep the elden ring theme. We have a pristine example with cuphead that made the rounds.)
It is true that outlets that hold these kind of journalists have been cleaning up though, ragebait doesn't work as well as it used to. :P

[Lizvette]

I do see journalists like that, but I also see journalists throwing the game down the bin because they slapped Varre and he slapped back in the way Elden Ring does. :P
(Yes, am aware this guy is a content creator, just wanted to keep the elden ring theme. We have a pristine example with cuphead that made the rounds.)
It is true that outlets that hold these kind of journalists have been cleaning up though, ragebait doesn't work as well as it used to. :P

i trust game journalists, i never played pokemon alpha sapphire, there truly is too much water for me to handle, please reduce the water quantity or i will leave and the game will die

[Kailea_Nagisa]

I wanted to wait to see the raid tier before I say anything. There are already post about dungeon and trial difficulty, and now normal raids should be thrown into the discussion too, and I might repeat points already said but I think we should really make a point of this, we (the people not ok with this difficulty) need for the devs to hear it to hopefully make a course correction.

The problem with the difficulty on normal fights as I see it is:
-Use and abuse of non standard telegraphs.
-Nasty mechanic overlaps, stuff you would see on extreme and harder fights.
-Mechs resolving too quickly for the mental capacity they demand to process.
-One too many "catch this!" mech (mechs that have you running around like headless chicken evading seemingly random patterns).

All this has been making fights in this expansion frustrating and exhausting.

The Honey B fight had me wishing for the healer to not raise me, I was there in the floor, dead for the Nth time, thinking that I don't really want to be on that duty.

And it's not an issue of learning the fight, because that I can do, but we don't do this content alone, you know? I think it was the 4th time I was doing Valigarmanda when I finally managed to finish without dying myself, but that's a moot point when half the party was dead half of the time, even knowing the fight doesn't make it any less of a disheartening experience.

And yes, this concerns normal raids too even if they are optional content. In fact I gonna take the skip option for this raid tier, something I haven't done since I started playing in SB. And that's the point really, for the most part in the past 3 expansions difficulty for normal content was fair outside of some hiccup here and there.

I firmly believe that content meant to be done via the duty finder (where you don't choose who you playing with) shouldn't be this level of punishing. And I know that JP people do savage in the duty finder but we don't do that in NA or EU, for better or worse western players doesn't behave like JP players.

Finally I think that people that thrive with difficulty (the ones that demand harder content) already have extremes, savages, ultimate, criterion dungeons, and more (Yoshi-p is even touting of savage alliances), this people is eating really, really good. Do they need to take normal content too? Can casual players have something easy-ish to play? Please?

you are right, your post is hyperbole, the games normal content is not hard, it might be a small step up from what we had, but its not "too hard"
Yoshi said content was going to get harder. Come on we are in the 5th expansion, if you cant keep up at this point, the problem might be you, not the game.