Difficulty of normal content.

[caffe_macchiato]

You people

There are now 730 posts in this thread. 710 of them are not from OP. It's sad to see someone like Arthars raid the official forums just to take down one (1) person he doesn't like. Hundreds of people against one. Why is Final Fantasy XIV like this?

[jdtuggey]

There are now 730 posts in this thread. 710 of them are not from OP. It's sad to see someone like Arthars raid the official forums just to take down one (1) person he doesn't like. Hundreds of people against one. Why is Final Fantasy XIV like this?

It's not because Arthras made me aware of the issue that I'm dogpiling the dude for Arthras, I'm here for myself, am not here to dogpile or insult anyone, I'm here to give my opinion on a matter that I care about that I was made aware of by Arthras.

I don't even watch Arthras regularly. I was just recommended a video on youtube.
Like, am sure you agree with some opinions the worst people in the world have, but you probably don't agree with the opinions they hold that made them the worst people in the world. :P
Please don't make assumptions and strawman people who have genuine opinions because their opinions happen to align with the opinions of someone you don't like.

[VioletCatastrophe]

There are now 730 posts in this thread. 710 of them are not from OP. It's sad to see someone like Arthars raid the official forums just to take down one (1) person he doesn't like. Hundreds of people against one. Why is Final Fantasy XIV like this?

I don't even watch Arthars? The only reason I know about this is from a friend of mine talking about this, who found out about the thread from Mr Happy's video. You are accusing me of tribalism, yet you are the one making assumptions about me, why I'm here, and making up some kind of grand conflict. Sometimes it's really just as simple as having a really really bad take on a topic and finally deciding to actually participate in the place that the devs listen to instead of talking about it among friends. The reason you are seeing more people on the forums is simply that more people are realizing that the devs only listen here.

But okay sure it's all one streamer dogpiling someone. It could never possibly be that this take is so horrendously awful that its driving people into their first forum interactions.

[Novarius]

I’d also like to say I’m not here as some pawn of a streamer and I don’t bear OP or anyone else with a conflicting opinion to mine any ill will, I felt compelled to set up a forum account to dispel any misinformation surrounding the new Normal Raids and other casual/normal MSQ content introduced in DT, calling this content unreasonably more difficult than what we’ve seen before is simply not true when I’ve been there and experienced similar content Day 1 in other expansions…

[holydiver1286]

There are now 730 posts in this thread. 710 of them are not from OP. It's sad to see someone like Arthars raid the official forums just to take down one (1) person he doesn't like. Hundreds of people against one. Why is Final Fantasy XIV like this?

People are well aware of this post without any streamers bring extra attention to it. From a personal standpoint, the last person I'd be taking advice from or following for any reason is Arthars. And his friend Xeno for that matter.

[Kiurt]

There are now 730 posts in this thread. 710 of them are not from OP. It's sad to see someone like Arthars raid the official forums just to take down one (1) person he doesn't like. Hundreds of people against one. Why is Final Fantasy XIV like this?

Obviously content creators made this post kinda "famous".

But people were already disagreeing with OP in the first place and the post had already some traction before.

Also, unlike some of your comments, new players are welcome to the game, even if they skip. All is about attitude. That's also why people got hostile towards OP. If they're willing to learn and take advice, all is good ! If they're getting defensive like OP "I've played this game for 6 years !", obviously people are not gonna be patient with them.

New players are fine, FFXIV won't die because of the shift of combat design. FFXIV, as an online game, needs to change and develop itself. Not stalling the same formula again and again. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The change in boss design (and not game design unlike what you said earlier, or even fundamentals, because fundamentals are the same as before) is in a decent place right now without pushing too much the old engine and being overly difficult for your average casual player.