Difficulty of normal content.

[EiraWoqiso]

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The developers are going to see the critics on the JP forums and the anti-critics on the English forums/Reddit/YouTube and conclude that these new raids were a mistake. None of the 1000+ commenters were saying any of this stuff during Endwalker. If you complained about the game being too easy or boring, people lashed out and told you to play other games. But now it's different. Everyone's regulators must've gotten an update.

I'll admit that I tried my hardest to avoid using these forums (hence the low post count), but were people actually hostile to those asking for normal content to be a little more difficult? That sentiment's been around since I started playing (just before 5.1 SHB) and it seemed extremely common, at least outside of here. I remember that final pull in Anamnesis Anyder getting a lot of praise because it was a little harder than most dungeon pulls at the time, even if it quickly got outscaled and now a caster LB turns it to smithereens.

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I'll admit that I tried my hardest to avoid using these forums (hence the low post count), but were people actually hostile to those asking for normal content to be a little more difficult? That sentiment's been around since I started playing (just before 5.1 SHB) and it seemed extremely common, at least outside of here. I remember that final pull in Anamnesis Anyder getting a lot of praise because it was a little harder than most dungeon pulls at the time, even if it quickly got outscaled and now a caster LB turns it to smithereens.

This is the previous mega-thread that we had on this topic: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-to-increase./
You'll see that most (not all) replies are ragging on OP for being "elitist" (you will find that word many times in the replies).

And here's another large thread from the world-famous aveyond-dreams calling for a higher difficulty, with most replies criticizing him: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...and-Exclusion/

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This is the previous mega-thread that we had on this topic: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-to-increase./
You'll see that most (not all) replies are ragging on OP for being "elitist" (you will find that word many times in the replies).

And here's another large thread from the world-famous aveyond-dreams calling for a higher difficulty, with most replies criticizing him: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...and-Exclusion/

And then when it actually happened, it worked. None of those people are here now lol

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This is the previous mega-thread that we had on this topic: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-to-increase./
You'll see that most (not all) replies are ragging on OP for being "elitist" (you will find that word many times in the replies).

frankly, I think OP in that thread is being extremely disingenuous. to say that content has not gotten more difficult and complex since ARR is absurd. if he wanted a more legitimate discussion he could have said the difficulty had not really gone up between shadowbringers normal content and EW, but he chose to speak in extreme platitudes that are objectionable. I agree that harder normal content is more fun and we shouldn't be able to autopilot just because we have good gear, but I don't think that thread was a legitimate attempt at discussion.

the other thread doesn't really read like "most replies [are] critizcizing him" it mostly reads like a pretty fair discussion around difficulty, player engagement and player retention. granted, with a lot of "people suck and they'll get mad if you make it harder" posts thrown in.