Considering they have released 4 content patches within the timeframe that Shadowlands came out and we don’t even have a release date for the first, it’s really hard to make this assumption.
BUT, if you must, they aren’t shy about telling people to take a break and trying other games.
They actually have a replay function that lets you play through the story quests as well as others such as class quests
FYI, you should probably read a post before you respond to it. The OP pointed that out but also pointed out the very big differences in the leveling curve between the two games.
I would love it 100%. It means I would get to see everything from start to end, but they would have to cut out a lot of vanilla content cause it has too many zones. There’s so much I don’t understand because I skipped over it or overleveled the area too fast.
The boost wouldn’t bother me, for those who wanna use it…go ahead. I’ll enjoy the story.
Alert: MISINFORMATION.
You do not have to do every quest every time, or even one time. Only the MSQ, side quests are optional.
You can really tell in this thread who’s played FFXIV and who’s guessing what it’s like but hasn’t tried it or just wants to hate it.
What? Do you even know what your talking about saying this? Sounds like your just trying to trash the ff14 community while saying wow community is “honest”? If you(the wow community) were honest, you’d unsub from wow because its horrible right now but you don’t and Ion doesn’t care, continuing to ruin the game.
News to me. Since I’m still having fun with m+. And while we are on down time between patches I’ve been enjoying knocking off some of my completions goals too.
Look at other threads and players comments who don’t get a kick out of M+ or rated pvp. Outside of that its all boring, and raiding is becoming stale because the patch cycle is too long. Open world content is dry and worthless.
“Still growing” yet literally everywhere outside of Limsa and Ul’dah is void of any players. The games a single player RPG that you’re paying a monthly fee to play. 
Even Shadowbringers cities and zones are completely dead on a high pop server.
Sounds like WoW.
If it wasn’t for mythic+, I probably wouldn’t play WoW anymore. WoW doesn’t have many redeeming qualities left.
Used to play strictly for the PvP and that ship has sailed
You wouldn’t be able to talk to quest givers on mounts.
You wouldn’t be able to move items in your inventory while busy.
You wouldn’t be able to “hearth” or go anywhere once your queue has popped.
Lots of little things like that~
Yeah but imagine wow didn’t rely on crappy rng to get gear. Imagine earning a currency you could use to just buy decent gear that wasn’t capped by some stupid achievment. I’m sure FF does plenty wrong, but there’s no arguing their gearing system is objectively superior to wow’s.
There’s a few things I didn’t think about.
Wow, it’s almost like people play MMORPGs to play the RPG part.
This is one of the only games where people complain about having to play the game.
Posting in the one of many FF topics.
All is this because of Asmon lmao.
Ahh I see. That’s good then
Yeah you’re right. My point still stands. You can hit 50 incredibly fast and still a have a staggering amount of main quests to do. So yeah you either waste hours of your time completing every single MQ after you’ve already hit max or you pay money to auto-complete the story and move on. Good try though
I know leveling is gated because I actually have played FF14. Also I’m not hating I’m just stating facts. You’re just trying to twist the information to make it seem like FF14 is perfect. Again, good try though.
I’ve played FFXIV since Heavensward and I have never been embarrassed to say it until the Yoshida’s Witnesses made the fanbase look like a cult.
If Warcraft were set up like XIV, it would have a bloated crafting system that requires you level all of them at once, unless you have a lot of game currency. Source: Omnicrafter on two characters.
If Warcraft were set up like XIV, you’d have a quarter of the inventory space despite the game compelling you to need more, under the excuse of “difficult programming”–but they will gladly sell you more space in the cash shop. Source: Omnicrafter on two characters.
If Warcraft were set up like XIV, bank alts would not exist, because you can’t mail things to yourself and where’s the $$$ in that.
If Warcraft were set up like XIV, there would only be “two” Allied races, that is to say, each one only offers one gender. One of them would have the hairstyles welded to their faces, and–without warning–require a cash shop purchase to get a “haircut”. Most headgear does not display on them. The other is also mostly unable to display headgear, and even the new headgear coming out won’t work with either of them. Source: Leveled both of them.
If Warcraft were set up like XIV, game holiday rewards would of course be said headgear, and housing items for the small percent of the playerbase who actually is able to get housing–effectively raising a giant middle finger to people who play the “two” races that were the selling point of their latest expansion.
If Warcraft were set up like XIV, Garrisons would have been open world, necessary for certain crafting mats, and–limited to only those who could afford a gold sink. Additionally, you would be forced to click on a placard against other players for up to a full day. You would, at that point, lose out to a botter that the GMs mysteriously never do punish. This would all come as a surprise to you, because the game sells itself on player housing like it’s something everyone gets. Source: I have housing. I paid for friends to have housing. It angers me anyone else has to go through that bad excuse for game design.
If Warcraft were setup like XIV, you’d still have the gated rep slogs, the dailies, plus an 8-man that takes an hour to complete no matter how good the group, because it forces you to watch every single overlong, overblown, cheesily voiced cutscene. Imagine not being able to click off Malfurion’s Space Ghost dialogues in Emerald Nightmare. Now imagine them being ten times longer.
If Warcraft was setup like XIV, every single main character would have white or blonde hair, and you’d be taking orders from a giant floating crystal because hell, I don’t know. If you think (rightly) that burning the civilians of Teldrassil was unconscionable, you’d be downvoted to oblivion because FFXIV loves their resident mass murderer and will let you know that uwu you would do the same IRL too uwu if you were in their shoes uwu.
That stopped being a thing with Shadowbringers.
I like this phrase, and will use it from here on out.
Wait are you serious???
You’re talking about Ishgard, yes? That thing that requires you to collect new specialized mats plus the old, common mats? That doesn’t help you when you want to use your shiny new 80 CRP, only to discover a lot of non-Ishgard recipes call for mats from almost every other profession. To have a functional crafter at level 80, you better have a lot of gil or you need to be able to make it all yourself.
You said leveling, you said nothing about fully leveled lol. You don’t have to level everything at once anymore if you don’t want to spend gil, that’s just a fact.