Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
I'll say that I probably left unsaid other parts of the problem, which in my opinion informs other action games that are primarily designed around dodging and parrying, like idk, Nier automata. Does it make them bad? Not really, because they do not face the issues you yourself brought up. They're built from the ground up to be those types of games from the get go.

XIV tries to be something it is not and can hardly achieve to be for the reasons you said. In a vacuum their DDR model works but it proves so poor for what a MMO is supposed to be that it becomes a problem.
Mao agrees with Sune. For another kind of game, DDR not so bad. For this game though, DDR pretty bad.