There’s a reason why FF14 is overtaking WoW as most popular MMO. Aside from the community being less toxic there, the class balance are good, the loots are generous and it doesnt stop the fact that people still farm content even if theyre maxed on gears.
First of all, the balance on this game is terrible. Please do a better job balancing all the classes and specs. We dont ask to be number1. Just make all the specs viable and it should be fine. Sure there will always be meta. in other MMO’s there are metas too. But the thing is, the bottom of the tier list and the top of the tier list in ff14 are very close to each other. Unlike here wherein other specs are leagues ahead of others doing twice the DPS with less ilvl and less skills required in their rotation etc.
Nerfing loot really? Thats not the way to go to keep players engage. A lot of players wants to be rewarded for their efforts. Gating loots and progression via greedy drop rate is driving people off. There are tons of better ways to keep people engage and continue subbing and playing this game. I am 100% sure that not acknowledging people’s efforts on farming dungeons and raids only to get meager loots is not one of them. There are mounts to farm, there are achievements to chase, there’s pvp etc etc.
Dont be afraid to be generous in loot, this game has lots of content even if we manage to get BiS on every slot a little bit early. Also mythic is a very difficult end game and its enough to keep players engaged.
Ehhh. FF just seems very uWu and soooo passive aggressive. One could make the argument that FF is more toxic than WoW it’s just a different type of toxicity. I couldn’t ever play the game. Though I have to admit that I’m quitting this game too. Lol
There is exactly 1 reason why FF14 has more active players and that’s because of how long the free trial is.
It still does not have more active paying subscribers.
He doesn’t, it’s statistically proven WoW is far superior to FF in terms of popularity. FF is just full of the weeb anime furry crowed which none of us want here anyway.
Players are rewarded more than ever in SL. Most gear that drops is an upgrade. Getting showered with 8 epics a day and being able to use NOTHING was a crappy system.
Lol I dropped ff14 like dirty underwear. Running 2-3 dungeons on repeat for months between content and fighting tooth and claw for housing (for which you will fail anyways) turned a passion for something new into a hatred of failed design in less than a year, and that’s AFTER I resubed, created a new character, and played all the current content (original player since release through shadowbringer, quit for shadowbringer and came back to find that barely anything had changed.)
Many games over the years have tried to compete but they either fail (GW2) or look like clones of WoW (Rift). Why play a knockoff when you can play the real thing ?
I’d play FF14, if it didn’t completely suck in almost every single aspect.
Questing is terrible.
Story is a bland cliche of mediocrity.
Combat is slow and monotonous.
The world map is terrible, invisible walls everywhere, you’re not allowed to explore.
Loading screens every 80 seconds.
Literally zero class customization. Every single black mage plays exactly the same. Every single Paladin plays exactly the same, there are no talents or anything like that.
There’s no progression.
Abysmal PvP.
I could go on forever with all the problems that game has. I have no idea how people manage to enjoy it.