Dear Square Enix! Make the game harder, not easier!

[Zaiken]

Easy? Did you finish all the game have to offer yet? Like Coil of Bahamut? People are still struggling with Titan Hard Mode. We are also getting Titan Extreme,, hard mode Dungeon, Crystal Tower. I think the contents is fine, it have both for casual and hardcore.

[TeganLaron]

I find it funny how the elitists seem to think hardcore equals superior more skilled players, and that casual equals inferior players. No, sorry to break it to you but hardcore means you just have a heck of a lot of free time. I'm not knocking anyone for it, but it doesn't take skill to run Prae 100 times a day to get full DL. It takes time.

I think for you to complain about them making areas of the game easier is just selfish. If you are one of these hardcore elitists then by the time they end up nerfing Titan HM etc. you will have already beaten it many times over anyway and will be onto the newest challenge. So why does it bother you? They have already stated that Coil will be nerfed. However this won't be until there is the newest big challenge for the hardcore gamers, so again, it does not effect you.

Until they say "Hey the guy who plays 2 hours a week says Coil is too hard, so we're going to make it easier!" I really don't understand what the problem is.

[Eiz]

Dear Square Enix,

blablabla, blabalba ble ble

Dear SE, FIRST make the game PLAYABLE* then you can start thinking on vanalities like it's difficulty level.

Not to confuse both terms.

The real problem here is another and has been said many times. But you know, when the wise man points to the moon some still looking at the finger.

When you react and the things in your screen are not responding or doing it late there is no difficulty issue.
I really would like to be able to face a challenge on the game and strive to overcome with no obstacles on the way.
So far i couldn't judge game difficulty because the game is not allowing me to do so.

[Andrien]

Greetings,

I’m happy to see that you adventurers are up for a good challenge and ready to get down and dirty with some difficult content!

Of course in addition to supplementing the end-game with extreme battles and other challenging content, we will also reduce the difficulty of the existing high level content at the same time, as Yoshida has mentioned in previously during Letter from the Producer LIVE.

We're always reading and reporting your feedback, but please understand that when we introduce new content and supplement higher-level events, it allows us to ease up on earlier content. (Of course there will be things added in patch 2.1 that isn't focused on end-game.)

We’ll be announcing details about the specific content to be released in the near future, but I wanted to just remind you about the general plan.

I think making content accessible is most important. Making a group, or finding a group should not be the challenge.

I also think catering to all groups is the best course of action. That includes those new to the Final Fantasy franchise, and the online experience.

[Eiz]

I also would like that difficulty level was as high as possible (as long as the server infrastructure allows, which is not the case).

But for some reason this post sounds to me like the sort of selfish tantrum of: "I already have my shit and don't want others to the get the same coz i'd feel less important" Which is in what an MMO consist at the background..
If in addition others are going to get the same easier I'd also feel like a fool..

The same kind of behaviors that make that today (10/31/2013) 41% of the world's wealth is held by 1% of the population and 68.7% of the world population live with only 3% of global wealth.

please, stop this shit already

[XiaoliVorgan]

I also would like that difficulty level was as high as possible (as long as the server infrastructure allows, which is not the case).

But for some reason this post sounds to me like the sort of selfish tantrum of: "I already have my shit and don't want others to the get the same coz i'd feel less important" Which is in what an MMO consist at the background..

The same kind of behaviors that make that today (10/31/2013) 41% of the world's wealth is held by 1% of the population and 68.7% of the world population live with only 3% of global wealth.

I agree, it does sound that way. I can't speak for how difficult or easy end game dungeons are. Well, unless the difficulty is set by red circle lag. Just did my 3rd AV as a WHM, there was absolutely no lag what so ever, so the dungeon seemed easy as cake. If I had experienced the fast-forwards lag that sometimes spikes in dungeons, I would be raging about how hard it was to beat seeing as you can't afford to fast-forwards as a
WHM or someone ends up iced and pray its not the tank cause then its most likely curtains. It's funny though, there are so many people who most likely want more difficulty to stunt others from obtaining the gear they played 24-7 to get, but those are probably the same people who bad-mouth and bully those not wearing full darklight or AF +1 in something like CM.

tl;dr Get rid of the Latency difficulty setting. /begin sarcasm - Then we can wonder about making dungeons so hard that only retired people and people living in their parents basement can complete them. /end sarcasm.

[Reeth]

I agree. Especially with Titan, I actually felt like I accomplished and earned my Relic when we downed him.

[Klutz64]

The problem here is that the developers think there are two main types of players:

-Those who have a lot of time to dedicate to the game and want challenging content to go along with it.
-Those who don't have a lot of time to play and want a more relaxing experience.

However, there are really FOUR main types of players
1. Have a lot of time + Want a challenge
2. Have a lot of time + Want something relaxing to play
3. Don't have a lot of time + Want a challenge
4. Don't have a lot of time + Want something relaxing to play

Nerfing the old content as new content is added completely ignores #3, I'm not saying they should NEVER nerf old content, but at least wait for a couple of content updates before starting to.

[diulalasing]

SE need to do two things

Fix the server latency to make fights like Titan fairer
Make contents harder in general, which requires more retries and work, even for casual players.

[Kossuranta]

SE need to do two things

Fix the server latency to make fights like Titan fairer
Make contents harder in general, which requires more retries and work, even for casual players.

Well they can't do a lot for latency because servers are in US/Canada what they need to do is servers for EU. Titan isn't that hard boss, but when you got freaky pings it's from time to time simply impossible to dodge. Multiple times have run and seen people running out of plume easily to still take dmg from it and same goes for landslide. I'm currently using WTFast which helps a lot, but can't do miracles, makes boss like Titan HM possible though.

One thing should also be added is avarage item level caps. In Titan you should have atleast around 3400hp as dps/healer, but saw multiple times players under 3k using gear under lvl 50 without any parts of darklight.