What's stopping you from playing FFXIV?

Someone hasn’t played WoW recently apparently… for FFXIV if you think FFXIV is on rails and WoW isn’t.

Yep, never played FFXIV.

It does. I don’t know why they went with having to load into each zone.

Yes, the game doesn’t let you go out of the bounds of the zone. Neither does wow or most other games.

Some cutscenes are long, most are short, not sure how having a long cutscene in a story driven game is bad. Especially when the game tells you “This is going to be a long cutscene, make sure you have enough time to watch it before you continue pass this point.”

The longest CD in FFXIV is 15 minutes. WoW historically has has 72 hour CDs and 24 hour CDs.

Pretty sure this is just your opinion, which is fine, but preference doesn’t make it true. But hey, you’re allowed to have your own opinion on which ones are better than which.

Hey now… all generalizations are false.

5 Likes

i think from context they meant “combat CDs” and didn’t mean to include crafting or toys.

I don’t play anymore because it sucks.

Now I am disappointed by the lack thereof.

I tried FF XIV at the end of BfA, didn’t hate it but there were too many little quality of life issues I couldn’t stand so I stopped.

Also (not that WoW’s hard) but FF was almost too easy… like painfully easy.

Only one game’s fanbase is obnoxiously spamming another game’s social media. They come here, spam, pick fights when people say they do not like the game, and are disingenous in trying to sell it.
“Perfect” game! …after the first 140+ hours.
“Houses!” …if you get extremely lucky in camping a placard for literally up to an entire day and night, against other players and bots.
Ad nauseum.

You come to my post that had absolutely nothing to do with TBC, and everything to do about the obnoxious, offtopic FFXIV spam wave and decide you’re going to take the opportunity to say WoW hates you. I didn’t even mention WoW. The first stone was yours. And yeah, had that same bitter ex vibe about it. :woman_shrugging:

2 Likes

How the game looks, really.
For me it looks like your typical generic Asian MMO with boring aesthetics and races.

WoW is in a bad spot lately, true, but I like how it looks and its races far better and for me that counts a lot.

5 Likes

I mean even then, both games have 3 - 5 minute CDs on various things in combat, so acting like one has long cooldowns and the other doesn’t is… well amusing at best.

3 Likes

Yo in all of my years on WoW, I’ve never seen the Blizzard diehards get as triggered over obvious bait, without fail, every single time, as I have with these FFXIV threads.

Like they’re blatantly displaying some serious discomfort from this whole FFXIV thing the last few weeks. I think they’re actually getting shook for once lmao. :joy:

6 Likes

Or have a free company that doesn’t decide to disban over night/ kick you even though you informed them you wouldn’t on for a couple weeks for irl issues. Then you lose anything you decorated your room with.

I want people to play what they want. I just know how trapped I felt in WoW for so long, with no where to go. If my gamer life changing experience can happen, I know there are others who could be helped too. There are threads near the very top just today.

Don’t like raid or die?
There is a solution.

Dont like endless systems and currencies?
There is a solution.

Want a robust crafting system?
There is a solution.

Want a better community?
There is a solution.

Want a game with a great story?
There is a solution.

Want a game where the devs and players exist in a very symbiotic relationship?
There is a solution.

Classes ACTUALLY balanced within 1% of each other?
There is a solution.

I mean, if it kinda sounds like evangelizing… it kinda is?

2 Likes

My biggest issue with the housing system isn’t even those things.

It’s not being able to unsub if you own a house. I’m currently taking a break from FFXIV, but because I own a house and I have no desire to play Housing Savage when I do go back, I’ve had to just let my sub roll on and log in occasionally.

1 Like

Those are just the issues I hit when I played after ARR was released. A few more times than I wish to admit which really sucked because getting room stuff was a pain just starting out.

I like my Free Company - haven’t been on for months now and they have still kept me in, but I am active in the discord, so that helps :blush:

I dunked on you because you were being a heinous boar. Now I am retracting your banana sticker and giving it to Dawnspirit.

Please avoid freshwater ponds, we don’t want you to kill the fish with all the salt coming out of you.

3 Likes

Classic also exists.

God forbid people want the game to be better, like we know it can be.

Yeah, when I 1st got my house I spent upwards of 3 mill just decorating it, since then I’m sure I’ve gotten well up over 5-7 mill in decorations. Currently sitting on over 50 mill right now, but still, I feel your pain. I’d hate to have to play housing savage again or lose all of what I have in my house/yard.

2 Likes

Sorry for lumping you in with the others, I hope you will accept this banana sticker as a token of my sincere apologies. :banana:

1 Like

Talk is cheap. Take that evangelizing to the FFXIV forums, or at the very least the correct subforum. Because all I see here are a bunch of kids trying to taunt “nya-nya cooties!”, or a bunch of rabids frothing because they can’t imagine people are playing what they want, and it’s not FFXIV.

FFXIV can sell itself. It doesn’t need a little circle of obsessed exes and pushy fanatics.

3 Likes

To answer a totally legit question, even if it’s meant as a troll:

I still really like WoW. Flaws and all, I like the sense of humor the game has, I like the gameplay, and I like the classes.

I looked over the classes for ESO and FFXIV both, and didn’t find anything that really resonated with me, at least by their description. Maybe I’d fall in love with one once I started playing, but, well, I’m just used to WoW by now.

4 Likes