I’ve been playing WoW for 15 years. I have a heavy investment in the game and I feel attached to it. But at the same time I’m playing FF14 and having a blast and I’m playing WoW and thinking I’m wasting my time. I mean both games I’m wasting time but at least in FF14 I enjoy doing it and don’t think of it that way.
I post on here to vent my frustrations. My sub runs out in a week so I might be here or I might not.
Does anyone from Blizzard read the FF14 forums?
Supposedly they read these forums, so gripes with this game and comparisons are entirely relevant here.
Also, in case you forgot, you have to be a paying WoW customer to post here.
I wouldnt also be posting on a forum telling about how much better Y is than X – because it sounds more like you are playing Y to get back at X because you miss X.
Because ff14 is a good game that actually offers competition to wow. So people are bringing it up it in hopes of forcing change in wow.
It really is a toxic relationship these people have created between themselves and WoW.
If you want an anime style character with Hello Kitty cat ears I guess I could agree with that
Which is why I dont like half of these FF14 threads. Most of them just come off as ingenuine spite playing than actually finding the game fun.
Oh but I do.
Sunk cost fallacy and FOMO are all that WoW had anymore. It’s all that keeps people coming back, until the spell is broken. People who break free of the sunk cost fallacy, don’t actually ever come back to WoW, and genuinely new players are extremely rare.
My relationship with WoW is definitely toxic. I tell my friends irl that activision Blizzard is a scummy company and every time I come back and buy the next expansion. I tell them to stay away from Blizzard products. Because I play WoW, and have this kind of weird relationship with it, but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone
If you say so. Not a lot of reason to believe that, but to each their own I suppose.
That leveling experience has and likely will continue to do a fair bit of damage to FF14’s player retention. It’s slow, tedious, a lot of meaningless walking, the combat is generally simple and arguably boring, and the questing itself has very little variety.
Because you’ve actually tried it yourself? I didn’t think so.
God forbid there’s an RPG in your MMORPG!
I’m hooked on the story and the cosmetics. Not sure how long until that shiny new car smell wears off. But I was laughing and having a good time during the storyline and felt pretty immersed. Worth a free trial to say the least and I’m not to the first expansion yet
That’s like saying that if you want cartoon style characters with furry mascot ears, play WoW.
Lol.
At least you’re self-aware! Most aren’t. 
I’m Gen X so I just don’t understand that whole thing I know it’s really popular right now but I will probably never understand it
The single player story aspect of FF14 completely blows WoW out of the water. Like, WoW isn’t even a real RPG anymore.
If they had a 1.5 second GCD and more reliable servers I’d spend more time in FF…
Heavensward hooked me HARD!! I actually enjoyed the ARR story but Heavensward’s story is on another level.
You do like dragons right?
I dont recommend MMOs unless they want to heavily time-invest. Hell I wouldnt even recommend FF14 – simply because of company issues and the investment either.
Player retention isn’t a metric that should be aimed for, you should be aiming to make a game that’s fun to play.
The leveling experience in FF14 isn’t as chorelike as WoW’s, and mostly tuned well to go with the main story quests.
Overall time spent leveling and doing end game gearing is actually way less than leveling and end game gearing in WoW. The amount of time you need to sink into WoW, only to have a hard reset on gear progress every patch, is kind of obscene. The gear treadmill is a lot less oppressive over there.