How valuable is the hardcore opinion?

[gifthorse]

I've played the game since Beta. I lived through the great flame wars of '10. I've been watching XIV since pre-alpha and reading every bit of news I can find on it. I played XI from '04 until earlier this year. I consider my opinion no more or less valuable or valid than anyone who has played FFXIV. Mostly because the major issues are so glaringly obvious that even someone who's only played the game 3 or 4 hours can grasp what they are and that they need to change.

That being said though, I love how people call 'hardcore' players self-entitled and elitist, then go on to explain why they, who play only a few hours a week, are entitled to the same content/gear as the people who worked for months to get it. Now that's a major sense of self-entitlement right there. If you can't/won't/don't want to put the work in the get the gear/content unlocked then you don't deserve it. If you don't put the time in, then don't expect to reap the same rewards.

Like all things in life, games reward more to those who put more time/effort into them.

I think if the game felt less like a chore/effort to play, then nobody would complain about not being rewarded with gear - the reward would just be fun.

[Teepot]

The real hardcore gamer play FFXIV naked with their lvl 1 stuff, and all of the rest are casuals or bots.

[Flower]

Nice 11 pages of spam and senseless arguing over "opinions". Which are not "Facts" and therefore cannot be argued.

[Zenaku]

Request Lock

Enough said we getting what we want both for casual and hardcore matter if you like it or not.

Everyone can rest assured that the raid dungeons and content that we're planning to implement in the future will feature not only tough battles, but also challenging and exhilarating bosses. The nitty-gritty details are tied into the future rollout of Grand Companies which we'll be announcing the juicy particulars of at a later date. I hope you're all looking forward to it with bated breath!

Enough said.