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

[Nova_Dresden]

Shouldn't the game evolve and feel like its progressing and aiming high( I mean real high!)?

One free company has cleared Binding Coil. One. O-N-E. Ichi, un, ein, uno. ONE! Here's the problem with what I quoted and what you seem to ignore (or actually see and just don't care) is that if this is the kind of clear record to expect and you want increases then eventually content will come out that even you cannot clear. A phrase I hear around here at work is "everyone is promoted to their highest level of incompetence" because no matter how good you are eventually everyone reaches a point where they're incapable of performing at the level expected of them. This includes you, no one is immune. No new MMO can maintain enough subscriptions to maintain development and upkeep if they cater solely to the hardcore playerbase. No one wants to pay a monthly fee for a game they can't play, and content forever out of reach is nothing people want to shell out $10-$15 a month for.

[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.

[PSxpert2011]

A phrase I hear around here at work is "everyone is promoted to their highest level of incompetence" because no matter how good you are eventually everyone reaches a point where they're incapable of performing at the level expected of them. This includes you, no one is immune. No new MMO can maintain enough subscriptions to maintain development and upkeep if they cater solely to the hardcore playerbase. No one wants to pay a monthly fee for a game they can't play, and content forever out of reach is nothing people want to shell out $10-$15 a month for.

You mock me(sigh). Too bad.

[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.

[Terius]

A nerf would only be required for titan because of latency tbh.

You, me and many others might be able to dodge 99.9% of the time, but there are alot of people who are having real trouble.

[HOLY_S-HIT]

The sad truth is the same people who cry to make the game harder, when given what they want, they come back two months later and complain it's now too hard.

Exactly, SE shouldn't make things easier or harder. Just add NEW harder content to maintain the armony on end-game progress.

[Nura]

Please Make Bahamut unbeatable if you releas him.. like every move is totally randome no learning of patterns, superior HP 1 Hit kills really fucking hard I mean. Everyone needs to pay attentio for at least the whole fight.

So it will be truly epic to kill him. Noone will tell you to have epxerience because all his Attacks are randome you can only know what he has made a super wide area of Attacks. So noone can ever predict what attack is going to be next.