Quote Originally Posted by Deslyxic View Post
Arguments are stressful but the thing is there is not much of an argument to be had here. It's just pages and pages of "skill issue", "git gud", "you can't be this bad after 100 levels", all the passive agresive "it's ok to be bad/die/wipe", the "it's not harder", the "it's harder but it's ok because I like it", all the "but such and such duty was hard too", "it's level 100 so it must be harder". Once you filter all that you end with less than a page of posts.
If I made this thread is because I like the game a lot, and I firmly believe this increase in difficulty for the easiest duties is going to be bad for the game in the long run. I stand for what I wrote in my past posts.
If you don't want to argue the point, why are you making a forum post? It's okay to say that you have no substantive argument beyond "I don't like this thing" but why do you insist that it is bad for the health of the game when the vast, vast, vast majority of the playerbase is having fun in the new content? I am sure that CBU3 recognizes that some players will be alienated by difficulty changes. Yoship has said that himself before. They are okay with that because they, and the majority of the community, believes that making a video game play like a VIDEO GAME is the correct business move to ensure that the game remains popular and running. Do you remember how Endwalker had a huge launch because of the story and then the player count immediately fell off a cliff, even by FFXIV standards? Yeah, that's because outside of Savage/Ultimate/Criterion/EX, literally every single piece of combat content was completely unengaging. There is a sizeable community of players that wants to do their hunts, roulettes, exploration zones etc. and have a collect-a-thon social experience with other players that are not hardcore, and simply want to be engaged by the content they are running. That VERY LARGE section of the playerbase was completely screwed over by Endwalker, and now that you turbo casuals are EVEN SLIGHTLY inconvenienced by maybe having to use a couple braincells to think about the optional content you are doing, you piss and moan on the forums.

Grow up, not everything is about you.