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

[Sebastien]

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.

This is sad to hear, and I hope Yoshi-P will reconsider.

When you introduce new content (new gear, new skills, new levels), the old content naturally nerfs itself. For example, introducing Crystal Tower essentially nerfs Bahamut's Coil. This is a good way to do things.

Please remember that, just because someone levels more slowly, it does not mean they want content to be easy. When you explicitly nerf the old content, you are doing something unfair to casual players. You are stripping all the challenge (and fun) from the game. Even Blizzard has learned this lesson. They stopped nerfing old content but provide item upgrades instead. Please learn from their mistake.

[LiadansWhisper]

When I play a single player game, I will often dabble for months or years, but eventually I aim to complete the game 100% on the hardest mode. I have achieved this with several games many years after I started playing them and it's very satisfying to eventually reach my goal.

This is not a single-player game. And those who post on the forums are a tiny, tiny fraction of the people who actually play the game. So don't think that any "majority" on this forum (in either direction) is representative of the player base as a whole. It's not.

The people you refer to as "you endgame raiders" is not just players that rush to end-game. As someone has written before there are people that cannot play as often but still want to enjoy the end-game as it was planned and not just a washed out version just because they were not able to play more than few hours everyday.

If Yoshida wants to help the casual players in beating some events he could just add casual content that adds tiers of equip that closes the gap a bit without "ruining" the current gameplay.

I am not someone who "rushed" to endgame. I've been busy juggling my life, my WoW raiding (which just kicked into high gear a week after FFXIV dropped), and playing this game. Yet I was able to get to 50 over a week ago (I think it may have been two) without playing for 12 hours at a time. If I can do it, so can you. It's your own damn fault if you're not to 50 by now. And I don't understand how you could be "not geared enough" at this point. I'm completely geared out from AK runs, and I will have enough tomes to buy my first piece of AF +1 by the end of the week. I didn't even get to do the "speed runs" and I'm still doing just fine for gear. So I really don't understand this idea of, "omg, I might not be able to participate!" I could participate - if I wanted to. But I don't want to put forth that amount of effort when I'm also balancing a raiding schedule in WoW.

I also still don't understand this rage on the part of raiders who are already clearing the current content at the very idea that some "casual scrubs" might be able to see the content they've seen. Dear lord, the idea that people will eventually get to see the content they paid for. How dare Square. *eyeroll*

[Rikudou-Sennin]

I don't want it harder. It's fine as it is. I have a full time career and don't want to spend countless waking hours trying my best to keep up. I left WoW because of that. They aren't going to nerf Titan. They already said they have a new difficulty mode above hard coming out. Not sure why you are complaining.

They just need to come out with "I have no life mode" for primals to make you people happy.

[Deedsie]

didn't take hours to clear

you could cruise through them in 3-4 hours

So...which is it?

[Zezlar]

I don't want it harder. It's fine as it is. I have a full time career and don't want to spend countless waking hours trying my best to keep up. I left WoW because of that. They aren't going to nerf Titan. They already said they have a new difficulty mode above hard coming out. Not sure why you are complaining.

They just need to come out with "I have no life mode" for primals to make you people happy.

I work a part time job, go to college full time, and have a broken down car.

A manufacturer just needs to come out with a "I'm too poor" model for $300 to make me happy. You know because I deserve the same things you do.

[LiadansWhisper]

I work a part time job, go to college full time, and have a broken down car.

A manufacturer just needs to come out with a "I'm too poor" model for $300 to make me happy. You know because I deserve the same things you do.

Psure you could go buy a used car for that amount. It might not be the fanciest car, but I bet it'll run.

[Rikudou-Sennin]

I work a part time job, go to college full time, and have a broken down car.

A manufacturer just needs to come out with a "I'm too poor" model for $300 to make me happy. You know because I deserve the same things you do.

So you do want a "I have no life mode?" That's really what it sounds like. Everyone wants to spend years getting gear and competing with 39 other people. Final Fantasy 11 online was very very hard and they had such a low sub base..

[Zezlar]

So you do want a "I have no life mode?" That's really what it sounds like. Everyone wants to spend years getting gear and competing with 39 other people. Final Fantasy 11 online was very very hard and they had such a low sub base..

Nope, I don't need a "I have no life mode." I just don't want them to destroy the games foundation and structure by nerfing every single thing into the ground.

[LiadansWhisper]

Nope, I don't need a "I have no life mode." I just don't want them to destroy the games foundation and structure by nerfing every single thing into the ground.

They haven't even said they're doing that. You're freaking out over nothing. :-\

[Xlom]

Greetings,

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.

I'm not a fan of this. I'd rather the content stay challenging to help players learn to play their class. Just make gear easier to get in new patches, leave the content as is.