You’re entitled to your opinion, but you’re not forced to watch “hours upon hours of badly voice acted cut scenes”, you can skip them all.
Not going to speak on the rest because it’s opinion.
Yeah, you can skip them, by manually selecting the option and clicking through each and every one. No thanks. Quests that aren’t the main quest line offer little in the way of XP relative to the main story, so even leveling it’s kinda pointless doing them. And in order to progress to the next expansion you have to complete the main quest line.
Which is a positive to most people playing (aside from 2.1-2.5, no one likes those), like I said, opinions.
(and didn’t realize hitting esc was so hard)
What is a positive to most people? Elaborate. And you can’t skip all the cutscenes.
Great crafting, Indepth characters, Flying at max level, Gear vendors, Real Housing, Better RPG elements. Fact is to many to really list. While WoW just seems to keep taking away what made it great.
You can skip 99.9% of cutscenes, there’s like a few short ones that require you to select an option during them that you can’t skip, but it’s like a drop in the bucket.
And most people are playing for the story as well as the rest of it. On top of that you only need to play it once, you have access to everything on one character.
Flying, I’ll agree with. Crafting is subjective. Housing is a thing WoW should’ve done ages ago. RPG elements, again, subjective. I found FF14 pretty convoluted in terms of the plot. That’s kind of why I wanted to skip the nonsense. Give me a quest, I’ll go kill x, collect y or talk to z (probably all of them, honestly) and be done with it. Minus the babble.
I mean, crafting is subjective to a point, but it’s objectively better then wow, and you can’t even argue that.
In wow Crafting is useless outside of 2-3. In FF EVERY craft is useful. You can craft good gear, you can craft things for your house, you can craft food for raiding, for gathering, for crafting.
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Better than WoW, yes. WoW’s crafting hasn’t been relevant since Vanilla, which is a shame. I’m surprised that FF14 is getting so much hype, and not ESO. I’ve played both and ESO is far better, imo. In all the metrics you mentioned.
Opinions again, I find ESO extremely dull, and their crafting is not nearly as in depth as FFXIV’s which is what I usually do in off times.
Couldn’t get into the story at all, the entire world scaling turned me off entirely, and melee combat is not pleasing.
I like the sandbox aspect of ESO. FF14 feels like you have to play it a certain way, or you’re going nowhere. You have to do the MSQ. In ESO, you can get play the MSQ, wander off and go explore a cave, or do a short but fun quest line, and pick the MSQ whenever. And someone who has played the past ES games like I have would probably have an easier time picking up the lore.
See that’s where we differ, I (and the people who enjoy FF) are more into Themepark style. I find sandbox style boring, I want clear goals at all times. It’s why i don’t really like games like ES and BDO and Witcher.
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