Quote Originally Posted by DynnDiablos View Post
I do find the casuals vs. hardcore player debate interesting because the hardcore player base hates that us "filthy casuals" are even in the game, when XIV's success was built on the casual player base. If we all quit and leave because they start to only cater to the 1% of the player base that likes this content - good luck. The chaos raid is just not accessible. It's already difficult to get groups together, PF is already gatekeeping hard on who can join and if you go into Raid Finder you could wait 8+ hours and never get included in a party. Then locking the cosmetics behind it, at the end of the day, this raid (which let's get real, is a 24 man TRIAL) will be dead within a week or so.
The hardcore players don’t care. When the game starts dying they’ll just say “it’s an old game anyway” or “at least it has more players than ARR”. They are self-destructive, and once they burn out, will just move on to the next MMO to poison.