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[Malakhim]

Difficulty is subjective - FFII, FFIII, FFV, FFIX, FFTactics could all be seen as "hard" ones. Every RPG in existence is either easy or hard depending on the player.

By watered down I'm pretty sure it's because XIV is damn well nothing like a FF game.

Every RPG that doesn't have enemy level-scaling or imposed level caps is easy, as all you have to do is grind up as high as you can and use the win button.

[Zaene]

Every RPG that doesn't have enemy level-scaling or imposed level caps is easy, as all you have to do is grind up as high as you can and use the win button.

By your own admission then FFXI in its day was hard. CoP capped fights, (which mind you were some of the most fun quests I've ever done in any game.) BCNMs capped or not, Maat fight, etc, etc.

Then, by no great leap in logic, the claims of the OP that FFXIV doesn't share that sort of 'challenge' are not unfounded.