I find it comical anyone who supoorts blizzard can critisize another community and the company that makes there game.
I find the white knights of blizzard far worse than those of the final fantasy comunity.
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LOL so in agreement… oh I think I remember those post… I usually skip does never saw them as cult behaviour thought, I’m usually more interested in game dev both gameplay, accessibility (more options for players to engage with their avatars) and lore stuff! My bad… I tend to be very oblivious to stuff like this even when people are being trolls or sarcastic I never get it in time…until pointed out haha 
I’m not entirely sure why the comparison at all, both games have similar MMO interactions but they ARE SOOOOO DIFFERENT… it’s not even fair to compare them at all.
FF14 focus completely the story around your character, its story fantasy theme fan service first, gameplay Second. (IMO)
WoW is gameplay first and story secondary as the main character is not the player but Azeroth and its NPCs. ((IMO)
But this is just me and why I play both… I can never compare the 2… Its almost the same with D2 and Warframe… both are sooo different.
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I know what you mean. I usually try to stay nice as well, but I tend to get cynical or snippy with certain comments. We’re all just human, after all.
Here, let me say something nice" I like your transmog. Honestly, I’m even a bit jealous because I’m not yet at the point where I can finally get Kael’thas’ Fel Orbs. 
Yep, that sums it up pretty well.
FF14 is a RPG first and MMO second.
WoW is an MMO first and a RPG second.
For people who want to get to the endgame content as quickly as possible and aren’t really interested in the story elements, FF14 just isn’t the right fit. At least in my opinion. Of course, there are raids and everything, but FF14 focuses on the story and expects you to play through it.
In WoW, on the other hand, the main goal is to get the player to the endgame as quickly as possible.
In that regard, they are two very different games.
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blizzard bootlickers be in full force recently for some reason
FFXIV is carried by its community. The game itself is meh.
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LOL oh I saw how you battle what… like 3 people in a post haha
I mean no disrespect but it was hilarious… and you stood your ground dang, no need to convince me I saw the whole thing! Forum PvP at its finest!
I have to agree so jelly, man I think Ill end up making a Blood Mage just to look pretty in my screen this transmog looks so good with blood Elf heritage armor!
Darn, it we need this for other races! (I know I know this is both Iconic for Blood elves and Mages AKA Blood Mage… it was just a fluke we Warlocks got it as Glyphs in MoP 
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OP, the masks come off very quickly in XIV when the subject turns to housing, or in higher level content, or in Novice Network–to say nothing of unprompted and unwanted whispers that would make Goldshire blush on certain servers. Anyone who tries to say otherwise is selling you some low-quality copper.
Oh, and Hunts. You’ll see plenty of people who give no effs about anyone but themselves on the hunt train.
Same sort of people, different sort of game.
It’s funny seeing the pearl-clutching about your post, though. Before Dragonflight, XIV players regularly made asses of themselves here to post XIV and flame WoW. Guess they don’t like looking in the mirror.
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Because it does not work like that. Any sprout can join it on their own. Once you lose your sprout tag there is no way to get back in other than becoming and maintaining mentor status.
10/1 op was an a jerk and didn’t express his opinion well then got mad when people challenged him with counter points.
Nah wow is a boring grindest where you have to turn the game into a job to access higher content especially if your schedule only allows pugging. It’s a lifestyle and not a game.
FFXIV is great for people that only want to raid. As you can skip tiers and come back then head straight back into savage. Skill matters more than gear drops there. The wide ilvl spread in WoW makes this irrelevant for most players. Since they are not doing splits and having viewers funnel them gear like world first groups.
It’s also easier to see player skill through parsing as everyone ends up in the same gear and there is nothing like trinkets or borrowed power procs that skew the results. Also buffs are assigned back to the person giving them only. So no PI dumping for rank 1.
Different strokes for different folks. Nothing in WoW has come close to blind progging a savage tier or the new ultimate when it first comes out in terms of fun for me.
I play this game less than the vast majority of casual players and still manage to complete the hardest content in the game.
Time management skills is all it takes.
You can do this in WoW very easily.
Skill matters more than gear in WoW too. The best guilds in the world are nearly as geared as last guilds in the world to clear the content.
Again, by the time that most people reach the last boss of a given tier, they typically have the same gear, or slightly better gear than the best players in the world.
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OP posts nothing about gameplay, but the difference in the communities’ reactions to criticism
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Random arrives to feverishly chain-post about how they find XIV’s gameplay better than WoW’s “boring grindfest” (all the Moogle Tomestone events say hi)
OP, I think you’re onto something here.
Edit, since that’s a thing you can do (life hack for those that need it):
You have to slog through hundreds of hours of mandatory quests before you can raid anything recent. Unless your idea of “raiding” is the Ifrit trial.
This is what I meant about some XIV people selling bad copper, OP.
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I find this statement to be completely disingenuine. Your guild raids 3 times a week for 3 hours each evening! PLUS one additional day for the first weeks, this is insane. And aside from raiding you still take your time to do M+ keys and probably a bit of other content.
Stop trying to pretend like you’re barely playing. There are a lot of CE guilds only raiding 2 days a week, so your guild invests even more time.
Most casual players are not able to plan their life around WoW and sacrifice 3-4 evenings for raiding and additional evenings for gear farm in M+. Just stop gaslighting the people here.
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I also play 1 day a week during farm, which is the majority of the tier.
My time on WoW is extremely front-loaded. At this point in awakened I log in for raid, clear said raid, and log off until the weekend when I do 1-4 keys depending on how I’m feeling.
I know a lot of players both on and off these boards who call themselves casual but are CONSTANTLY online.
Casualgating is a thing.
Hate to see it.
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Yo forreal.
I think between WoW and FF14 I pull about 20 hours a week. WoW takes up the majority with M+ clears alone. All the other stuff really adds up. Waiting in queue for 15-20 minutes, a bad M+ run, doing dailies cause raiding and M+ are profitless, and plenty more.
20 hours is nothing to scoff at. That’s a whole half your 40 hour week. If you have a partner, let alone kids/dependents, then 20 hours is too much. Unless of course your partner plays with you, in which case kudos.
You hit the nail on the head. WoW players are absolutely no better when it comes to opposing opinions or criticism. They just don’t take the “toxic positivity” approach.
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I feel bad for anyone that has to resort to Forbes quoting…
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FF14 forums are worse than these though. But I get it. Why log into a game to complain about it?
CommUnity = everything
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