If it was successful would people take shot at FF14 or maybe finally admit that World of Warcraft can make other game features even better?
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My highest level on FF14 is level 17. I have tried 4 times the gcd is too long, too many story cutscenes, and not enough abilities to fight the boredom. I want to go further, but too many early gameplay makes it frustrating to continue.
I am also an altoholic, I have to play multiple characters, one wont do. I have 54 characters on WoW and 40 characters on ESO.
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When housing goes live, whereâs the party gonna be? Whoâs hosting? Should I bring anything?
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Not quite sure what you are asking.
If Blizzard delivers on housing as advertised, it will definitely put pressure on Square Enix to improve their housing system.
WoW already does many things better than other MMOs.
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i felt that way when wow killed everquest but now i find myself missing everquest.
good thing everquest 3 is coming in 2028 to take revenge 
wow hasnt been on its toes in a loooooong time. it should be interesting to see how they react after all these years of laziness.
You got like 11 levels further than me lol.
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From what Iâve heard about housing on FF, itâs not something I would be interested in.
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Really depends what housing in WoW is going to be like. I doubt itâs going to be âbEtTeRâ, it will just be completely different. And whether itâs better or not will just depend on personal taste and needs.
Housing in FF14 is imo almost perfect to me - the only thing that really bothers people is the scarcity of houses, mainly bigger houses. WoW will certainly not have this problem, but then probably lack in other things like variety of furniture, the possibilities of the building process itself and a lack of custimization of gardens and fixtures (walls, floors etc.). At this point itâs also unclear if houses of other people will be freely accessible without group invites. If not, that will be a big downgrade.
I agree. I mean, sure you can do it all on one character, but the game provides a fair few races to play, so why would you stick to just one?
I tried it, I cant recall my level but it was probably around 12. I didnât like the graphics (never been a fan of the Asian style), didnt like the game play, the endless talky scenes, the frustrating system that you had to try and figure out with little help, the constant barriers between relatively small zonesâŚthere were lots of other reasons but the one thing that really annoyed me was that I knew it was unlikely I would ever get a house. And loving player housing as I do, I found the difficulty of just getting one to be the last straw.
The best thing about FFXIV is the crafting system, something WoW tried to ape badly if they actually copied the crafting/gathering from XIV properly that would be great but whatever we currently have is just an overly confusing mess and basically pointless to interact with for any casual player.
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You are assuming without even a smidgen of information on that part of it. Its like saying the raids in Midnight will be bad when we have no knowledge at all about the raiding in the next expansion. Why must you assume the worst?
(PS: the blue post mentions âhundreds and hundreds of decorations and house customizationsâ. And those numbers will undoubtedly increase over time.)
Again, assuming.
Frankly, I dont want strangers just walking into my house. I donât know why anyone would find that pleasant. If you choose to be in a guild neighbourhood then I suspect it will be a lot easier to be visited by, and to visit, guild mates. In general hoods, its 50 strangers. You can make friends with them if you wish, you can almost certainly invite them in for a cuppa and a scone, but they will almost certainly opt in favour of privacy controls since the majority of people would probably prefer that.
So i play FF14 and WoW and here is the issue
FF14 is boring. The raids (ultimate raids and savage raids) are about as hard as wows LFR they are beyond easy.
There is nothing really to do in the game besides ERPing and most of that player base (which is a majority of their playerbase) are furries or underage looking creatures.
WoW offers a large pool of content for all skill levels and doesnt have as big of a ERPing scene .
So overall i would never suggest FF14 to people to play unless they want to try childs first MMO with weird ERPing (which btw if you say anything bad about the ERPers you get mass reported)
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Holy cow, youâre not kidding. It is a real thing.
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I think they both have their advantages and disadvantages, WoW is the better game overall because it doesnât actually hate being an MMO, has much better gameplay and class identity and forces people to work together unlike XIV which seems to be more focused with their boring never ending MSQ singleplayer experience and making all content braindead easy but XIV does offer actual non combat oriented activities for players such as the actually engaging crafting/gathering, casino, housing, weekly fashion contest, ocean fishing and the island sanctuary.
WoW current crafting system is fine. Itâs simpler than FFXIVâs but that isnât a bad thing.
I donât get what you find so confusing. There are just 3 stats and the higher your level, the higher the quality of your crafting.
Iâma be honest. I gave FF14 a try. First issue was the insanely obnoxious sign up process. I donât remember what the issue was exactly as it was a while ago. But it was legit quite difficult to give them my money. Iâm likeâŚbut why??? Then, when I finally did manage to get into the game after suffering through their horrendous account creation system, I found the game UI so absolutely terrible that I puked a bit in my mouth.
Sure the community might be better. But hot damn if the gameâs interface and graphics are hot garbage. About the only thing FF14 has going for it is the vastly superior animations and polygon count. But the textures were something out of a PS2 game and very plasticy looking. It also seemed to suffer from a complete lack of graphical design cohesion. Like it was multiple games cobbled together. Whereas WOW has been consistent since 2004.
And yes, the FF14 in-game cash shop is waaaaaaaaayyyyy worse than anything WOW has ever done. Anyone who doesnât acknowledge that is super gaslighting themselves.
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its only better if you are apart of the ERPing scene and dont find it gross about their small race being used as not very good things.
I played FF14 a bit. I was sure I made a Paladin but I ended up being a glitter wizard fighting a dancing cactus.
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Theyâre only ânicerâ on the surface if you ever criticize the game in anyway they become extremely passive aggressive XIV community is the definition of âtoxic positivityâ.
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âEveryone who doesnât agree with me has a mental problemâ isnât how you automatically win arguments, sorry. How is it worse? It offers basically the same things as the shop in WoW, but has a lot of cheap and affordable stuff - and doesnât sell gold.