Player Drop Off and Accessibility/Diffculty

[Azurarok]

I mean I have all that set up and I'm not exactly struggling with it much personally, mainly pointing out the cast bars on the nametag isn't exactly useful. They often don't show on adds and smaller enemies like the mobs in PT, where I'd actually want it.

[Valence]

I mean I have all that set up and I'm not exactly struggling with it much personally, mainly pointing out the cast bars on the nametag isn't exactly useful. They often don't show on adds and smaller enemies like the mobs in PT, where I'd actually want it.

Yeah I second this, in typical UX fashion, CBU3 when actually bothered to add UI features into their game, will only do the absolute minimum and stop halfway through for literally zero reason.
Add cast bars on everything, and offer options to turn it off for players that don't like it. Also add buff and debuffs below enemy plates in a similar fashion while we're at it, why didn't they take the opportunity to do this either??

[Alice_Rivers]

It's true that I didn't finish the tier, having spent weeks getting nowhere with M8S and not having fun, I made the logical and reasonable decision to stop banging my head against that particular wall. As much as you may not like my analysis, based on my experience, doesn't make it invalid. I did see a "different version of FF's combat" and, in my opinion, it was worse than what I'd seen in extreme for all the reasons I gave in my post that got quoted. If you like "the dance" and wiping because one person made one mistake, good for you, I don't. I don't consider it "skill" and I don't consider it good game design. For the record, I quite enjoyed Chaotic - as evidenced by the fact that I have both the mounts and still have a pile of gear boxes from it, chaotic was fun, with the exception of M6S which was great fun savage was not fun.

[Valence]

Those memory games require precise execution and learning, and this takes a skill of its own. Nobody here would be able to pull what first world teams pull in less than a handful of days to clear a whole tier at MIL. Some people need weeks, some need months or more.

It serves nobody belittling it by saying it's "no skill". It's not no skill. It's just excruciatingly boring and/or frustrating, that's the words you're looking for.

[Raim]

I wish they'd make content easier but rotations harder/more complex. Expressions of skill should be in rotational gameplay rather than increasingly elaborate and esoteric song and dance routines they have to come up with.

[Azurarok]

I wish they'd make content easier but rotations harder/more complex. Expressions of skill should be in rotational gameplay rather than increasingly elaborate and esoteric song and dance routines they have to come up with.

and unless one's doing blind runs all the time that skill expression drills down to how well they can follow a guide

[IOwn92FCHouses]

I wish they'd make content easier but rotations harder/more complex. Expressions of skill should be in rotational gameplay rather than increasingly elaborate and esoteric song and dance routines they have to come up with.

You don't do savage. What content do you want made easier? I genuinely want to know what you find hard about the content you do.

[Supersnow845]

You don't do savage. What content do you want made easier? I genuinely want to know what you find hard about the content you do.

I don’t understand how that’s the point you got from their comment

They want rotations to be made more complex; this would be counterbalanced by easier encounters across the board. I don’t see how you read that as wanting things made easier

[IOwn92FCHouses]

I don’t understand how that’s the point you got from their comment

They want rotations to be made more complex; this would be counterbalanced by easier encounters across the board. I don’t see how you read that as wanting things made easier

My point is that you can't make the content that dude does easier. It's already braindead. I wanna know what they find hard about that content, as those aspects are the things that would be made easier per their request.

I was then going to jump off and point out that complex encounter design and complex job design can coexist if people put in even a little bit off effort to improve themselves, but I'm going to wait for this guy to respond before I go into that.