Here we go again

[RagAndBoneLady]

Too bad you couldn't learn to have a shred of compassion for others.

[RagAndBoneLady]

Yeah I do use everything at my disposal to be able to have fun. That's generally what adaption is... That bit about working around the world...

[Hanzz96]

Yeah I do use everything at my disposal to be able to have fun. That's generally what adaption is... That bit about working around the world...

Video games by nature have a fail state and if you can't handle that seriously go do something else. Second life is right there but things dont need to be dumbed down because you are stubborn and refuse to learn or try

[RagAndBoneLady]

I am trying? You don't get to define trying. Simple as.

[Hanzz96]

I am trying? You don't get to define trying. Simple as.

Practise more until you dont die its band new content

[Gwenkatsu]

I really wish people would stop using age, medical conditions, or whatever to ask for easier content.
I'm 58 years old, relatively healthy, and can play ego shooters on the highest difficulty rate - so I guess my reflexes are still quite good. But the visual clutter and the unillegible boss emotes of FF14 just kill me. As soon as the boss fires out 15 AEs, then 27 more, then gestures towards the ceiling, the far right corner, and then his butt - I'm dead, as I have no idea what this all means. The game does a horrible job at teaching you what's about to happen next, and I simply refuse to watch guides and memorize all of this garbage.
I would prefer to have an easy mode for all MSQ content; and I would love to have a checkbox in the settings which auto-skips every single MSQ trial - as none of them are ever fun.
Leave the hard content to the people that like hard content, and let me just play through the MSQ. That's not rocket science, no?

[Shinku_Tachi]

I really wish people would stop using age, medical conditions, or whatever to ask for easier content.
I'm 58 years old, relatively healthy, and can play ego shooters on the highest difficulty rate - so I guess my reflexes are still quite good. But the visual clutter and the unillegible boss emotes of FF14 just kill me. As soon as the boss fires out 15 AEs, then 27 more, then gestures towards the ceiling, the far right corner, and then his butt - I'm dead, as I have no idea what this all means. The game does a horrible job at teaching you what's about to happen next, and I simply refuse to watch guides and memorize all of this garbage.
I would prefer to have an easy mode for all MSQ content; and I would love to have a checkbox in the settings which auto-skips every single MSQ trial - as none of them are ever fun.
Leave the hard content to the people that like hard content, and let me just play through the MSQ. That's not rocket science, no?

I can agree with you on this.

At the end of the day, MSQ and everything MSQ related should cause as little friction as possible, so as many people as possible can clear it. Optional content could be tough but fair (basically along the lines of Dun Scaith when it first launched, that's an example of the perfect difficulty for optional content imo). Extremes/Savages/Ultimates/Unreals can be overtuned to hell to make everything as excruciating as possible to get through. Yeah, the way I laid it out is pretty simplistic. But, in general, I feel like that's a fair start to a framework for addressing content difficulty and satisfying most people.

[Metaknigh]

At the end of the day, MSQ and everything MSQ related should cause as little friction as possible, so as many people as possible can clear it.

They can and there is as many people as possible. What people want is also requiring their brain cell to play rather than playing a visual novel with one button. This is an MMORPG, some things will be easier to some, some will be harder to others. Please stop dumbing things down and suggesting it because that is not what the majority wants, and the majority is the people actually clearing basic MSQ content.

If people fail it, they can keep trying to go in, they can get friends to help explain if they don't get it, they can look at other dungeons to see how it's done, they can look at the Trust NPCs to see how they dodge things. People can already, keep trying to go in. I don't see what an easier mode can do, infinite rezing sure but I think SE wants players to fall upwards by having them die and learn to avoid, not an unreasonable expectation when all that's lost is a tiny bit of time.

[Hanzz96]

I really wish people would stop using age, medical conditions, or whatever to ask for easier content.
I'm 58 years old, relatively healthy, and can play ego shooters on the highest difficulty rate - so I guess my reflexes are still quite good. But the visual clutter and the unillegible boss emotes of FF14 just kill me. As soon as the boss fires out 15 AEs, then 27 more, then gestures towards the ceiling, the far right corner, and then his butt - I'm dead, as I have no idea what this all means. The game does a horrible job at teaching you what's about to happen next, and I simply refuse to watch guides and memorize all of this garbage.
I would prefer to have an easy mode for all MSQ content; and I would love to have a checkbox in the settings which auto-skips every single MSQ trial - as none of them are ever fun.
Leave the hard content to the people that like hard content, and let me just play through the MSQ. That's not rocket science, no?

"All of this garbage" is what the gameplay of FFXIV is though. Maybe you don't like the game?

[Gwenkatsu]

"All of this garbage" is what the gameplay of FFXIV is though. Maybe you don't like the game?

Oh my, aren't you a smart one.
In case you didn't notice, the game is way more then some instanced content with what I call "garbage DDR mechanics". The world, the story, the characters - there is so much aside that DDR nonsense, and that was exactly what kept me around. "Was" of course, as DT's horrible writing has ruined that part of the game now, too.