Well now that’s a bad take. That’s like saying if I don’t like the movies at the movie theatre or on Netflix then I should just make my own movie insinuating it must be ME. I never said I didn’t like WoW, but there is a lot I do not like.
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I’ve heard so many people say you need to just read all the in-game dialogue and it’ll make sense. I’m personally waiting on the book to release since I wouldn’t know where to even begin in game.
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it’s probably the fastest, for sure. I’ve pulled a lot of gear out of Korthica, but LFR and even early Mythics are fairly manageable for a mediocre player. Which is exactly what I am. Rusty, unfamiliar, and running solo 98% of the time.
Again, I think enjoyability comes down to managed expectations and personal investment. But, it’s a far easier game to gear up in as a soloist than I recall it being.
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We all are and it’s hard for me to comeback to the game.
All I can say is good luck, but also enjoy yourself on the adventure and questing they put you on. I am mid way done with it about to do the Garuda fight soon.
You don’t have to move on fast, but try to play less of the game and try something else. You’ll slowly stop playing especially if anything in WoW not motivating you to continue. Trust me I wanna play the game asap, but with the direction it’s going, developers designing the game and who is in charge of changes. I don’t wanna go back to a hollow version of the game.
I accepted the fact WoW won’t ever recover the numbers they want to have, but also losing sight on what a mmorpg is anymore.
That’s less true than it used to be. These days WoW does that thing a lot more where after you accept a quest, the NPC who gave it to you or is accompanying you while you collect 20 bear asses will spout off all the important tidbits at you.
Even then, it’s not the most engaging way to consume a story. Neither reading bland quest dialog nor listening to an NPC hold a one-sided conversation with you. You’ll learn the story sure, in the same way you learn history. As a rote sequence of events. Just dialog (and only two paragraphs at a time) is difficult to convey the more resonant parts of the story with.
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WoW isn’t your personality.
Final Fantasy is a better game these days, stop arguing about it.
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completely agree. I meant to actually try that storytelling addon out to see if it helps, but haven’t got around to it yet.
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Funny, I hate that WoW went cosmic, it doesn’t seem to be that kind of game.
But, I hate the Garlean (tech) part of FFXIV and have no issue with cosmic. To me the lore fits with cosmic beings but flying space type ships don’t.
Of course I love the space tech in SWTOR, but always hated melee stuff in the SW universe. Just never seem to fit with blasters for me.
I guess my view of the lore in each is just different and based on what “I” feel belongs, not the actual content of said lore.
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Do you know the name of the addon offhand? I don’t think I’ve heard of that one?
Storyline
Hope you enjoy it. I’m gonna give it a download once servers go live.
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Fun tangent, I’ve read some essays before by people smarter than myself who have said that you actually want to avoid hiring super-fans of a franchise to contribute to it for this very reason. Super-fans tend to have extremely specific aspects of a franchise that they enjoy engaging with on top of a very specific perspective on what various aspects of the story are supposed to signify. So if you hire them to write for that franchise, they’ll emphasize the parts they like beyond what they were originally and they’ll tone-down the parts they don’t resonate with as much. So the overall work develops a very different personality and it’s difficult to keep it consistent. The story becomes less broad as they hyper-focus on particular aspects.
Since large franchises have a variety of fans who like it for a variety of reasons, people who don’t share the super-fans same reasons for liking the story will find themselves left behind and the audience grows narrower.
It’s better to have a robust “Bible” (that’s actually what it’s called) that’s put together early on in the development of the world and to hire people who like, but don’t love the series. Someone who is willing to do good and passionate work without strongly feeling like they need to deviate from the series Bible too much.
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It’s because unlike WoW, it is not only about end game eSports. It’s an MMORPG experience.
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Absolutely. In WoW the game doesn’t start until max level. Even when we get a new expansion, the devs are firmly aware that the story stuff is just a formality before you get to the real game. That’s why I was max level and done with the main story 2.5 days after Shadowlands launched.
In Final Fantasy, the story IS the point. I don’t expect to finish Endwalker for a month at minimum. Even that estimate may be too quick since I’m basing it off of how long it took me to finish Shadowbringers and Endwalker is supposed to be 30% longer than that.
I don’t think the trade off is entirely free. I think that the “competitive” parts of FF14 are worse than in WoW. The combat system isn’t as complex, there are fewer options to tweak your build, there are fewer and less varied utility spells to accomplish things beyond raw damage/healing. It’s more difficult for a player who wants to push themselves and to prove their mastery over the combat system than it is in WoW. So I find the endgame in WoW to be more engaging.
Which isn’t to say there’s nothing to do in FF14s endgame, since there is and I enjoy doing it. But I don’t engage with it on the same level.
Just started Shadowbringers yesterday and im so excited with what i see and the whole plot.
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Honestly say what you will but in the past month I’ve put in more time in FF than I have put into WoW for the past 2 years. I came back to check the updates for 9.1.5 and seeing that the only real content ‘update’ (bringing back old content) will only last for 2 weeks, why even bother coming back? I tried playing classic as well because of friends, but honestly I’m just going to let my sub run out.
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Other MMO’s simply don’t have the buzz of subscribers. The amount of people logged in, down or not, is all WoW really has going for it at this point. It’s like I’ve said for years, the biggest thing WoW has distracted me and prevented me from doing - single player video games. Unlike all the kids here thinking they’re gamers, I have no problem doing and completing any video game without any group or any audience.
WoW hasn’t been an MMORPG in a very very long time…
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I tried for like a month, and I have only 12 hours remaining in my WoW sub.
I don’t think I am going to be back before 10.x but good luck anyway.
I hated the graphics. Elements look fine in isolation, but they don’t flow together.
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FF14 is less of a MMORPG than WoW is, and it’s weird that people insist otherwise because they will latch onto anything to hate about WoW.