Should SE scale high end content difficulty towards the usage of SIM ?

[Shougun]

This would still completely screw over anyone who plays vanilla by making the mods and addons required and force it to be balanced around. There's a reason why people play this game and not WoW.

Doubtful imo, in a substantial way at least (that you're implying that a major reason why people play FFXIV is because WoW has addons). Having addons in WoW, hundreds of them, I rarely experience an issue- its extremely easy and I'm not sure how people have a struggle with it except that they can't find the power button to their PC (doing super cool things like not reading when they install 8 different addons that all do the same thing slightly differently).


Also, having done most of the casual content in WoW- Addons are not required. For hardcore content, maybe more so, but I do not see how it is better to have our situation and I think having a well done addon storefront would be better than remaining ignorant. "There are no addons there are no addons" meanwhile a player sits there with auto marking ground, precognition of the DDR mechanics, acing everything, and asking for the game to be harder, treating their fellow players worse because for them it is indeed easy.

We will probably just end here on "will not agree", but I do not think ignorance is the preferred state and I think the shadows we have now damage the game more than if we just ripped the blindfold off. Especially as when we take the blindfold off we can make these addons more reasonable (bringing their power factor down to something less god tier).


I watched and played WoW long ago, back when DBM was insanely powerful (like our addrons ARE RIGHT NOW).. it was definitely something people thought you were silly to play without. Again, I can't speak for hard content, but doing all the non-mythic high tier type stuff- no one cares, and I imagine now that the addons are less powerful (they can't mark everything like they used to) it is less required.

Additionally! WoW is seeking to clamp these addons even further, a tool WoW has that FFXIV does not-- because we decided to cover our eyes and pretend the moon is made of cheese. So we'll probably end here, but I think remaining blind is worse for the game.