As someone who plays both, they both have aspects that are really enjoyable.
FFXIV: Story and community as well as relevance of content at any level. Definitely a RPG first then an MMO and a darn good one.
WoW: Gameplay wins for me 100% but doesn’t have the natural community culture that FFXIV has. Casual PvP/M+ and the like are what I enjoy here. It is a lot nicer to watch as content. FFXIV you can’t really enjoy watching someone else play
I logged in to correct this lie of yours. the FF 14 community is one of the friendliest around the only toxic players are the ones that departed wow to go play it.
I don’t doubt it , just a minority of the playerbase is very vocal and toxic to any people who doesn’t like the game or criticize it
This entire fanboy thread is cringe
I couldn’t give a crap about either WOW or FF14. I think I’m done with MMO’s in general as far as hardcore gaming goes. I been spending my free time playing steam games lately like FF 1-6 pixel remaster & indulging in my passion of reading. Still fun to peruse the wow forums now & then:)
I think people forget that the original intent of playing a game is to have fun & if you no longer are maybe it’s time to move on to something else. I still like wow but do not care about keeping up. The hamster wheels become much too obvious to me as far as content goes.
I also want to avoid the fate of blasting vitriol to all & sundry; what is that anyway? Is it insecurity masking as weakness? Or is it A “I’m not having fun so I’ll try to destroy others that are”? Kind of fascinating when one thinks about it…
Nah, I played it. it’s garbage.
The classes feel amazingly fun but that’s it. Every quest is “kill x mobs” or “gather x item” and they last 1minute or less. Endgame is completely pay 2 win/pay to skip grind. End-game content does indeed get hard and look fun, but if there’s no path for F2P players to get there that isn’t “grind everyday for hours on end for months, watching your refine fail non stop” then the game is bad. The story is boring as can be too, nothing real exciting happens or twist comes up ever. It was as if written by a kid in school who was bored in class one day.
You should consider better hobbies than obsessing over which game has more people watching other people play it.
That guy just has utter uncontrolled hatred for FF14 and we don’t know why. My guess is he’s mad wow is dying and high on copium and it stole a bunch of our players last year.
This thread is full of desperate WoW fanboys with empty Friends Lists who are trying to convince the remaining few regular WoW players to not jump ship and go to FFXIV, because they know these players would never come back to that pile of garbage that is current WoW.
Like bald guys doing comb-overs to try to convince you they still have lustrous hair, but they’re not fooling anyone, and it makes them look pathetic.
Yeah, Square Enix is so brave for allowing players to use achievement metrics, now I understand what Siersha meant.
/s
You’re doing FFXIV a disservice by stooping to the level of some of the folks.
FFXIV is fun if you find some pals to play it with, same as here. Community wise, the people are generally far nicer than those of WoW. They’re also blindly obsessed with their game despite it having flaws, whereas WoW players critique everything and anything.
If there was a middle ground between FFXIV players and WoW players, I’d go there in a heartbeat.
As long as the World of Warcraft forums are full of Final Fantasy posts I don’t think it’s going anywhere.
World of Warcraft is not the Final Fantasy killer
(Especially not you Shadowlands or BFA)
Lost Ark.
That game is pure trash, but my god is it fun trash lol.
FF aside, even some streamers who did not jump ship have still made some WoW content.
Those who jump ship and never come back, unless they find FF14 raiding as good end game content, will seemingly always be jumping from game to game to try find their next big WoW fix.
Next up, Riot’s MMO. And than what? So far nothing has taken the gaming world by storm like WoW, and until we get our next big gaming revolution, nothing ever will. Company after company will just keep making games, trying to get in on it and fail.
Can we all just agree that maybe Asmongold would be a bit happier if we chipped in and got him hair plugs?
They won’t. FF is fun and all but its endgame leaves much to be desired. Already the new zones are ghost towns, FATEs just like every single expansion are neglected, hunt trains are rare to find and dungeons across every expansion take forever to queue into (but I blame SE for this one for allowing people to solo them with NPCs).
Talking about streamers is meaningless. The reason why so many WoW streamers never do anything else is because they can’t afford to, or at the very least don’t want to risk a move. The reason Asmon can play other games is because he has such a large following that moving games isn’t a risk for him, his followers watch him because of him, not the game.
It has nothing to do with a “WoW fix,” it has to do with the fact a lot of these streamers just aren’t very entertaining so moving away from the one thing they are known for is a massive, massive risk. You can look at Preach, dude openly said that he didn’t know if his channel would survive after he stopped making WoW content. Luckily, it just worked out for him but for others, they might not be so fortunate.
I think you misunderstood what I wrote. Players that don’t come back to WoW will always be jumping around from game to game. They go to FF, than back to WoW, they go to New World, might come back, might not, than they try Lost Ark, and in between they try this game and that game and any other game, streamers talk big ab out insert game here and it flops, they than talk big about insert game here and that flops.
There is and has never been another big game like WoW that has captured people and kept them engaged. Many games have tried, but they just fail to really hit the mark. Without duplicating exactly what WoW is just with new zones, story telling and graphics, nothing will ever be the same.
Pretty sure WoW has had well over 100 million accounts made but all metrics available to us currently put the sub count somewhere around a million or less.
I have no idea what you are talking about lol.
im not quitting wow but tbh wow gives me only 2 shots of dopamine a week on raid nights while lost ark gives me 7 shots a week 
im not sure if wow is king anymore. maybe.