Has a ton more streamers that stream ONLY WoW. Plus 14 is just boring to watch. Personally I think WoW is boring to watch too but to each their own lol.
When did this become a battle of game knowledge? This has literally just been you getting offended by my opinion. Then getting offended further because I didn’t see your opinions as a fact. That’s literally all this has been.
There is a reason why they did not do this, and it is because the rest of the game builds from the ARR story. With that said, recently they did go back and streamline ARR to make it easier for people who don’t have the patience to go through the story. So now it is much easier to get through that story and still get all the set-up needed for the rest of the game.
When I did it last year, it wasn’t yet streamlined, yet I am glad I went through it as it helped develop the relationships with all the characters within the game. We have a very long term WoW friend who just finished ARR and he enjoyed it, so the changes are probably good.
At first I did not appreciate the glam system in FFXIV, but now the only thing I dislike about it is the number of slots I have in my dresser. It reminds me of the void storage of old WoW. And what I really liked about that system is the fact that I did not destroy the item that I worked hard for. These days, those in WoW, the items are sold/destroyed, so you no longer have the item you struggled to get. Kind of a loss.
At the beginning of the game, yes, the combat is slow. I struggled with it when I was leveling up. But once I hit max, I found that the reason there was limited buttons was that they were teaching me how to play the job. This made me a lot more confident to enter into the raiding scene at max level because I had learned what each ability was, why it was there, and why/when to use it. I now love the combat system because it engages you more than WoW’s system. It also showed me how unfortunate it is to be a new player in WoW these days. that big talent tree and nothing in the game teaches you how to use it. Sad.
Travel can be difficult, but they have a travel system just as they do in WoW, and in fact, it is better because in each zone, you can instantly teleport to the main village(s), where in WoW, you’d be walking or taking a flight path. It was not difficult to get your chocobo mount and we found out that if you got to 30 before that part, you could just go buy a mount and ride that.
You don’t carry profession gear in your bags, you carry it in your armory chest, which has plenty of room for gear for all the jobs and all the professions.
And I love love love the profession system, they have mechanisms in the game that help you level them up quickly and efficiently. The other thing that is really nice about professions is the fact that they utilize materials from the entire game, not just the most recent expansion, so all those old mats are utilized. I always thought it was a shame that once you left a zone in WoW, you never needed to go back. This is one of the reasons why when new people leveled in WoW, they never saw people. In FFXIV, I’ll be out in an old zone farming mats, and run across new people to help, friends I haven’t seen in awhile, and just random people to chat with. The game never feels empty.
Oh and you don’t have to craft one of everything to level a craft efficiently. There are many items I’ve never even crafted. - And I make a ton of gil selling stuff! Woot!
It would be nice if WoW developers stole shamelessly from FFXIV, for it would make their game much better. However, it is also clear that there is a sub-set of WoW players who would really hate that, so I see why they won’t do it. It is a shame because they are lost and can’t find their footing but I guess part of that is arrogance, so I guess they deserve being lost.