It took less than a year for FF14 hype to die

[Maderun-wyrmrest-accord]

implying I play white mage to heal

I only heal incidentally by hitting people with assize or to charge up afflatus misery. I dock points on my performance if I need to use a hardcasted heal other than medica II

[Maryanne-lightnings-blade]

If I watch something on twitch, it’s league esports. Watching people play MMOs doesn’t really interest me tbh, I’d rather play the game. Feel like twitch numbers is not a good indication of popularity for this type of game anyway.

[Nuamooa-zuljin]

@Ursidae-laughing-skull

It took less than a year for FF14 hype to die

How long a honeymoon period did Shadowlands get? How long did the hype carry over after the expansion was released?

[Furfoxsake-chogall]

WoW vs FFXIV

One of these games:

1. Is held is high regards by the majority of its playerbase
2. Has a story that literally wins awards
3. Has a musical score that literally wins awards
4. Provides a wide variety of content to appease casuals and hardcore raiders alike
5. Has closely balanced classes, with regular balancing passes made to achieve this
6. Allows players to feel like they’ve made meaningful progress in leveling and gearing up their characters and doesn’t throw away that progress with each new content update
7. Has lead developers who are open and honest about the game’s shortcomings and strengths, and have regular discussions with both press and fans alike to discuss both
8. Has regular content patches, which are outlined in a clear timeline so players know what to expect
9. And so on and so forth.

The other one is WoW.

[Sasarai-blades-edge]

Whether you like streamers or not it’s not an accurate tool to see the health of a game.

It is an accurate tool to see the health of a streamer, one could venture. But thats it.

[anon70475996]

The story has won awards I don’t think wow story has won any awards. Aside from being memeable

[Trustlvlfour-zuljin]

@Furfoxsake-chogall

• Is held is high regards by the majority of its playerbase
• Has a story that literally wins awards
• Has a musical score that literally wins awards
• Provides a wide variety of content to appease casuals and hardcore raiders alike
• Has closely balanced classes, with regular balancing passes made to achieve this
• Allows players to feel like they’ve made meaningful progress in leveling and gearing up their characters and doesn’t throw away that progress with each new content update
• Has lead developers who are open and honest about the game’s shortcomings and strengths, and have regular discussions with both press and fans alike to discuss both
• Has regular content patches, which are outlined in a clear timeline so players know what to expect
• And so on and so forth.

Yea but…does it have Gnomes? (Lalafell are an abomination).

[Borrus-malygos]

I never understood the appeal of watching other people play games

[anon70475996]

@Trustlvlfour-zuljin

Yea but…does it have Gnomes? (Lalaafell are an abomination).

Lorewise lalafells are treated much better then gnomes. They aren’t treated as a joke in msq

[Alakhai-aggramar (Alakhai)]

@Pardonnez-kelthuzad

The community ingame / the community on ( reddit , twitter , youtube )

They are toxic with everybody who criticize FF14 , FF14 do this , do that .

FF14 is Perfect , every others MMO are bad

Have you read their forums? It’s the same as here, exactly. I even suspect that there is a player here posting the same threads there.

It is far from perfect, but so is WoW.

Honestly for me the only thing I would bring over is the tradeskill relevancy over there. Every trade requires items from the others, so in essence they all are needed for something.

[Lannislight-tichondrius]

I would say I just got half way through the first expansion and … I just started to really like it but in a weird way that almost makes up for the fact I didn’t previously so it’s a net gain of like satisfaction? If that makes sense, in any case I’m taking a break from it for now because I kinda wanna do loremaster achievement on this Paladin and I’m enjoying that, also I have like 3 months game time left in SWTOR (I’m kinda mad at them for their short story for the current expansion) and I need to level some classes in that game too so just lack of time, but in the end I did really like final fantasy at the point I’m now at in it.

[Trustlvlfour-zuljin]

@anon70475996

Lorewise lalafells are treated much better then gnomes. They aren’t treated as a joke in msq

That might be true. But Lalafell are still an abomination.

[Itaachi-proudmoore]

@anon70475996

from being memeable

But…but

COsMos dIviDed cAnNoT sTanD !!

[Stabmcstabby-aegwynn]

For me that hype died in 4 hours. I didn’t like the responsiveness of the buttons it was too sluggish for me. But I still kept going for 2 more weeks and quit.

[Sabbia-moonrunner (Sabbia)]

Me: “Time to watch this Jailer vid, need to see what captain nips is up to.”

Also me: “Da hell? Captain Nips is a robot and…w…why is he trying to save us? Did I like miss out on like 2 patches of info or something? Wait, I still have no idea what he wanted. WHAT DID HE WANT!? WHAT IS A SIGIL!?”

[Sinelius-proudmoore]

That’s a more recent thing, and so what? A tank can self-sustain, you act like its never happened before in WoW cough blood dks pre nerfs cough. How many jobs did you go through to try and see if you just didn’t find a job you enjoyed? And other tanks still needs heals.

And back in Legion, I used to tank M+ 15s. On 2 different occasions(helya and nightborne guy) final bosses, I was the last one left and finished them off with half health through healing and trinkets for shield. Was I unbalanced, therefore wow was trash combat then? Or does this only apply because its FF14 and you wanna hate on it? But your main game having that very concept is ok?

[anon70475996]

I find it ironic that these posts are just free commercials for ff14

[Alakhai-aggramar (Alakhai)]

You forgot 10: Hildibrand and Godbert!

I just finished those lines, and that whole side stuff was the best! I heart me some Gregg too!

[Einerus-blackwing-lair]

14’s Greg is best Greg.

[Sabbia-moonrunner (Sabbia)]

@anon70475996

I find it ironic that these posts are just free commercials for ff14

FF14 has won so many awards that they can’t even be bothered to update their website anymore, too much work:

FINAL FANTASY XIV Awards and Nominations