I feel because the game is mostly designed to be run on PC, and PC gaming in japan is the smallest community for any gaming circle. Due to those small things the game designers usually have no idea what to truly do compared to many other Asian companies that have made MMO’s that that done well here and are still active.
It being a Japanese game certainly draws weebs in more than a Chinese or Korean MMO would ever dream of. The game eventually just turns into an anime chat room with avatars that can do special moves. Considering where FF14 was at the beginning, the game made a huge turnaround, but that was mostly after it made an effort to be more WoW like. I played FF11 as my first MMORPG and enjoyed it but hated it but played it. When I built my first gaming PC and tried WoW (vanilla late stages). It was amazing, i felt i had really wasted my time on something that did nothing for me.
I’m sure there is a player base for it, but it aint for me.
TL & DR
game started of bad, is okay now, and will feel like a anime chat with special fx avatars
People in final fantasy hardly talk to you, on wow go to a city and say something in general chat and you actually get responses.
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It’s because end game truly is the glam. There’s no competitive progressively increasing difficulty content, there’s no personal power progression since most content is either irrelevant, on a weekly lockout, or ilvl/lv sycned thereby taking away your power.
So with that being said, it really is just for the glams.
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I would say so yeah, causal friendly, but community wise…it falls off bad. The community over there isn’t remotely toxic. The community here…horrible. No one cares about anyone else. When I was new, I was doing wailing caverns dungeon and I got lost and instead of anyone helping me…I got kicked. Over there, if your new…surprise surprise…NOT kick you and try to be helpful! They will acknowledge your new by a symbol above your character and explain to you if needed anything mid-dungeon.
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They also are literally unable to say anything bad to you, as action can easily be taken against them per their TOS.
Believe me, the toxicity is there, they just can’t be open about it. And everyone uses ACT.
For every toxic player in WoW I’ve encountered, I’ve encountered a Mentor who didn’t know at all what they were talking about but barked orders anyway, so they could get the glams and mounts as Mentor rewards.
its pretty simple actually… pve mmo design is around players doing things together, wow for example m+, raids its not something you can do solo, there is also the competitive, loot and time factor…
in a single game there´s a lot a variety but most of them you dont depend on other players…
The mentor system is something you should avoid and was told to avoid myself by my friend…saw once mentor chat and it was terrible, thankfully you can fully avoid it. But there aren’t that many mentors youll come across, in my few months of playing Ive never met a mentor who was rude, they just use the status for the icon and farming the mount. If you avoid them, your gonna have a pleasant journey.
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Being nice to new players is all fine and good, but in terms of being an actually cohesive community, the game falls flat. There’s no “community” it’s all guilds just keeping to themselves entirely.
Not from my experience. People actually say hi in dungeons there for daily roulettes, my fc is very helpful too when I have questions, but I would say my dungeon and raiding experiences have been overwhelmingly positive.
He just needs to justify to himself why he’s playing WoW over FFXIV. I’ll never understand why people feel the need to do this.
Let me tell you why I like
Intel over AMD
AMD over Nvidia
Chevy over Ford
Cuisineart over Kitchenaid
etc.
etc.
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I love their heavy use of leitmotifs in their music to tell stories without a single word even being uttered. It’s a thing of beauty.
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i agree and disagree with some of what you said
ultimately i did like ff14 but what killed it for me was just the lack of stuff that i actually wanted to do in the endgame. none of the character progression-related stuff was anything i really wanted to do. the stuff i did want to do was crafting, gathering, leveling alt jobs, leveling meme jobs (like blue mage), etc., and none of that really contributed directly to the progression of my character. idk, just got old.
also, i never thought i’d miss having four difficulty levels for raids until i played ff14. they’ve basically got lfr difficulty and mythic difficulty. i’d sure like something in between those two things.
That’s all wow has always been to me anyway, the “community” in wow is a toxic pool of sludge and always has been.
I think XIV is a great game in many ways. I liked its customization, the environmental looks, the music and zones. That said, XIV isn’t perfect, as no game is; but the reason I don’t play it as well is simply the friends I game with haven’t and WoW hasn’t chased me away yet.
Zone chat in WoW seems to be entirely disabled now. People are using Trade Chat for it, but the sense of a ‘community’ takes a hit right there.
They are implementing a Novice Network like what FF14 has, but I’ve been playing way too long to qualify for that.
Gen chat still exists, just no one uses it.
FF just doesn’t have a general chat, or a trade chat, or anything like that. Japanese people apparently don’t talk a lot in open chat so SE never saw a need for it.
Look up active time maneuver