He sang that at fan fest and imo it was awful. 
But to the edge being done in the hospital was impressive.
Also the presented Radz-at-Han colorations looked awful. I hope they fix that because some of those purples actually caused pain.
That was amazing. It needs to be something in game.
That silly instrument he was playing made my ears hurt.
Watching them genuinely care about each other was nice.
I missed that part while I was busy, but watched it on Youtube later.
That… was the whole point. It was a joke.
Jokes don’t typically make my ears hurt.
The joke is that he’s arguably a musical genius, responsible for an incredible breadth of genre-spanning pieces… and then he does whatever that was. It was hilarious!
It was like the developers doing the dance from the meme of their song.
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Anyone who says this wouldnt have been better in the game is just wrong.
Look at how much fun they’re having.
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You know frustrates me about WoW. It’s how difficult some people make finding an enjoyable experience for themselves. Like they don’t understand that enjoyment in any game is 100% the responsibility of the player and NOT total strangers.
For example, despite the things I don’t like about the game currently (and there is quite a bit), I’m having a lot fun. But the reason I’m having fun is because I have been in the same guild for the past 5 years. I play with friends and people I know that jive with my personality. We always run content together … dungeons, raids, achievements. We’re not hardcore by any means. Some of us are pretty competitive, but some of us aren’t. We all gladly help each other (for example, we’ve helped a few get KSM for the mount that wouldn’t have been able to do it on their own). It’s just friendly, relaxed atmosphere.
In addition, I have also added more people to my friends list this expansion than any other expansion. These are people I met running keys. We timed the key and at the end, I said, “great run, feel free to add me” and others did the same and now I have more people to run keys with than I have in the past 2 expansions.
What’s my point? I don’t need the game to hold my hand or create a safe space for me in order to find the gaming experience I want like FF14 and I will never agree with the game designers “big-brother-is-always-watching” / safe space approach . I have taken personal responsibility to find the people I like and the environment I like and I easily ignore the rest.
I would argue that, over the years, the design of WoW has focused on personal progress to the point that other players have simply become transient obstacles. The vast majority of people you interact with will never be seen again. People are disposable. You have no reason to invest in them as they will disappear from your life within half an hour.
Adding people as friends and the like is the exception to the rule. Nothing about the design of the game actively encourages you to do so.
I’m not playing WoW for it’s story I’m playing it for the endgame aka the entire reason to play one in the first place unless you’re an RPer.
Second, it’s absolutely way more than 200 hours. I have 300 hours clocked on Steam and have never once made it to endgame content over the years where I’ve kept retrying the game. I’ve done nothing except the main story through each expansion with the exception of when I switched to RDM where I did POTD to catch back up to Stormblood to do it as RDM instead of SMN. There’s no shot it will take you 200 hours at all unless you’re on a “prefered” realm with EXP boost jewelry and even then I still probably wouldn’t believe that.
The entire reason to play an RPG is to skip the story to get to the endgame? Alrighty.
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The difference is a real RPG you’re not paying a monthly fee. FFXIV is essentially a single player mmo that you’re paying $13/m for.
FF is the same mmorpg that WoW is. Just like all the rest.
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I started playing FFXIV a couple of months ago.
I am loving it. The story line is incredible IMO
Oh and although you still have ‘flight limitations’ each expansion it’s refreshing to not have the ongoing battle of which patch it is coming out with. You finish the zone you can fly!
I don’t know that I am done with 9.1 it’s not here yet 
But I am in this place where there isn’t much I want to do in WoW right now and it’s unnecessary to list what I haven’t done, as I am quite aware of them and why So for me, I am doing other things. I know a lot of people who are exploring other games.
Shall see what the future brings but I don’t have a lot of faith in 9.1.
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I don’t agree, the game can be whatever you make of it and the desire to play with others should be a personal one, not a game incentivized one, even though I think wow offers plenty in that regard.
I disagree, I rarely play with strangers. But that’s because playing with strangers IMO is not even close to as fun as playing with friends or a in a guild with like-minded players. That is all the incentive I need and what has driven me to take personal responsibility in finding the game experience I want.
What are you even talking about? Raids, PvP, Mythic+, Torghast … all content that is very incentivizing to play with guildies/friends over total strangers.
But are you trying to say that WoW doesn’t incentivize playing casual content with others? Well, I don’t necesarily agree either. IMO, the desire to play with others is best when it’s a player driven decision, not a game incentivized one. Personally, I see plenty of people leveling together. They didn’t need to be incentivized, they just wanted to because it was probably more fun for them. It was THEIR decision. But if that’s not something the player wants to do, trying to incentivize it with rewards would just be another source of friction for that player.
IMO, it sounds like FF14 creates a safe space for solo players that don’t want to make the effort to play with others. That’s all fine and good, but I will never believe that’s how MMO’s should be played.
Nothing to say because it’s true? Even on locked servers the game world outside of Limsa and some of Gridania is as dead as the community. There’s zero incentive to ever interact with somebody and nobody ever even speaks in game outside of the novice network. Not to mention dungeons and other roulettes are useless outside of the first one you do each day. You’re literally just playing a single player story unless you can reach the fabled endgame experience that you also have to happen to pay a monthly fee for.
The story which 85% of it isn’t even voice acted until Shadowbringers does not even remotely warrant a monthly fee to play. Any actual Final Fantasy game (Even the 13 trilogy) will give you a better story than FFXIV.
Edit: Oh this thread got moved to the unused dead section of the website I guess that explains the replies.
completely off topic but stealing this to comment anyway.
some friends of mine started playing DQX online using an automatic on screen japanese translator.
They say that its really mixed with the japanese players. some dont want english speaking players near them others love it