Difficulty of normal content.

[Kiurt]

850 posts in this thread and 30 other threads. All from a single post from a single person. OP is the most powerful person in the FFXIV community right now and has you all in a vicegrip.

One (more) note: a lot of you use the standard-issue "you should know the game by level 100 and 300 hours of play time" cope. And that's true! But what of the rest of the game? Are you seriously suggesting that Final Fantasy XIV is a good game while also requiring every player to trudge through 300 hours and 100 levels of absolute boredom? The entire game is single player until level 100. Final Fantasy XIV will experience a terminal decline in player count. While obviously this is the developers' fault, your new standard-issue cope is also at fault because you aren't even giving people the option of using a skip. Final Fantasy XIV can no longer be called a good game for the vast majority of gamers and I would never recommend a new player start now.

New players can do just fine. If they obviously want to learn and put a good attitude for it, unlike OP has shown in his reactions again and again and again. People can also skip, which isn't forbidden. If I have to talk from experience from 2 friends doing it, they do learn just fine by themselves, sometimes they get hit by something new, they're just like "Oh, that's how it works" and then proceed to do fine. Every game has a learning curve, if you don't want to take a bit of time to do like EVERYONE in this game did, then... your attitude isn't suited for a MMORPG.

I guess I'll just recommend the game to more people just to balance things out.

FFXIV already experienced a decline in player count during 6.1-6.5.

Game has been stall for years, gained popularity thanks to WoW decline (Jailer planned it btw) and streamers.

They need to renew their formula and take risks to keep the game interesting.