dev1031 You are losing your main playerbase by making things too easy/fast/casual

[Zenaku]

but you are still ignoring the major point. if they put in 20 new nm's why did all 20 go to one group and say sorry we don't care for you to the other? all i said is out of 20 new nm's that a few should have been hardcore/higher level mobs.

yoshi is proving that he only cares about part of the base and does not care about the other part. this is the issue that i have with yoshi and wish tanaka was back in charge. if you want the game to be successful they need to cater to a wide range of people not just one group.

I agree everyone is like "Yoshi" omg yes he going to fix this game but really all he done is make this Casual. He just not really doing much. Everything that be added to game was tanaka paperwork for months he just went saw it and cross the things he did not like and fix a few of them.

If yoshi going to make this game 100% casual then i like Tanaka to come back and add hardcore events for us.

Problem is you casual players don't want to meet in the middle only thinking about yourself we play this game meet us in the middle.

[Babylon]

OP makes it so crystal clear it's impossible not to see it.
Thank you for putting into words all of my thoughts about this game.

I can understand SE efforts to widening their appeal to more people, but this will hardly working and it's undermining both the fidelity of the hardcore playerbase and the appeal of SE in general.
Everything in its right place. It's that simple.

I would never dream of going to WoW\Rift forum asking for hardcore content.

[Jinko]

I would never dream of going to WoW\Rift forum asking for hardcore content.

Why not, WoW has plenty of Hard mode raids, and if you think they are easy then you obviously haven't tried them.

There is a big misconception that WoW is easy, its as easy as you want it to be, put the time and effort in and do the hard mode stuff and its pretty rewarding.

[Shiyo]

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was ignoring that. I agree, it's dumb, and makes no sense, as I said in my OP it just shows that they are catering to the casuals and it's their main focus, leaving us oldschool FFXI/hardcore players behind.

[Sorel]

If I remember correctly many players had the same complaint when the first and second wave of notorious monsters were released.

"They are ALL High Rank NMs. Where are the low-mid rank NMs?? This game is going in the wrong direction!!!"

Yesterday "high-rank players" got content. Today "mid-rank players" got content. Tomorrow ... who knows?? But in all cases "players" are getting content. Please keep it coming Mr. Yoshida. We have a funny way of showing it, but we do appreciate your work.

Thank you.

[darkstarpoet1]

If I remember correctly many players had the same complaint when the first and second wave of notorious monsters were released.

"They are ALL High Rank NMs. Where are the low-mid rank NMs?? This game is going in the wrong direction!!!"

Yesterday "high-rank players" got content. Today "mid-rank players" got content. Tomorrow ... who knows?? But in all cases "players" are getting content. Please keep it coming Mr. Yoshida. We have a funny way of showing it, but we do appreciate your work.

Thank you.

i was one compalining that it should have been released to them back then. the problem with last patch is the same as this one. it catered to only one group. i do not see where it matters which group is being ignored because it is not right either way. btw you show me where the higher group was given 20 nm's at one time and i will agree.

the point is 20 nm's were released at one time and 0 went to the higher level group. even if it was only 2-5 went for the higher range you would not hear the complaints you hear now. they not only did that, but they have made the high level nm's horribly easy. they were already being lowmanned and now it is even more so since it takes only around 5-6 people to even kill the harder super big nm's now.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

i was one compalining that it should have been released to them back then. the problem with last patch is the same as this one. it catered to only one group. i do not see where it matters which group is being ignored because it is not right either way. btw you show me where the higher group was given 20 nm's at one time and i will agree.

the point is 20 nm's were released at one time and 0 went to the higher level group. even if it was only 2-5 went for the higher range you would not hear the complaints you hear now. they not only did that, but they have made the high level nm's horribly easy. they were already being lowmanned and now it is even more so since it takes only around 5-6 people to even kill the harder super big nm's now.

higher level content will be added sfter the battle fixes so it can be more fun for players. You need to open with the lower and mid content so newbies have stuff to do. SE isn't adding content for the current players, but ingeneral .

[Belial]

i was one compalining that it should have been released to them back then. the problem with last patch is the same as this one. it catered to only one group. i do not see where it matters which group is being ignored because it is not right either way. btw you show me where the higher group was given 20 nm's at one time and i will agree.

the point is 20 nm's were released at one time and 0 went to the higher level group. even if it was only 2-5 went for the higher range you would not hear the complaints you hear now. they not only did that, but they have made the high level nm's horribly easy. they were already being lowmanned and now it is even more so since it takes only around 5-6 people to even kill the harder super big nm's now.

You don't really seem to understand that what the development team is doing right now.
First: They are not adding content for you to enjoy, regardless of what PR letter you read from Yoshi, regardless of what forum moderator expressed interest, and regardless of lodestone/fansites/etc. say, they are still not adding this content for you.

This is a broken and incomplete game. They are fixing it. None of the stuff they are adding is to please or offend any of you. 80% of their starting player base is gone. They don't care if they lose anyone currently playing the game. Please understand that.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Ok, seriously this is getting old. ffxi was flawed, it was too hardcore and to much content that took up too much time. After WoW released ffxi started to slowly loose subs. FFxi also never really had sub increases like a few major increases like ps2 and 360 launch. But not much inbetween or after. Because of this, ffxi afrer 8 years of a slow bleed, had to merge servers. And not even 2 years after need to merge servers again.

The bigger issue is the self proclaim hardcores or "ffxi fan". Did you guys think you might be an issue? Look at how you act tward other players. A decent percent of hardcores are also elitists. Players who feel they are the best player and everyone must play like them. They insul and belittle anyone who refuses to do so. They also make the game not fun by making end game like a second work place.

I'm a long time ffxi player, I played since ps2 launch till feb 28th of this year. And only due to money issues. I'm a fan of ffxi, but i do see the flaws it had.

[Moth]

Ok, seriously this is getting old. ffxi was flawed, it was too hardcore and to much content that took up too much time. After WoW released ffxi started to slowly loose subs. FFxi also never really had sub increases like a few major increases like ps2 and 360 launch. But not much inbetween or after. Because of this, ffxi afrer 8 years of a slow bleed, had to merge servers. And not even 2 years after need to merge servers again.

The bigger issue is the self proclaim hardcores or "ffxi fan". Did you guys think you might be an issue? Look at how you act tward other players. A decent percent of hardcores are also elitists. Players who feel they are the best player and everyone must play like them. They insul and belittle anyone who refuses to do so. They also make the game not fun by making end game like a second work place.

I'm a long time ffxi player, I played since ps2 launch till feb 28th of this year. And only due to money issues. I'm a fan of ffxi, but i do see the flaws it had.

There were a lot of 'hardcore' players who loved ffxi. Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean everyone did. Please stop with your sob story. These forums are the worst thing that happened to this game.. honestly.