No, I am just trying to get into the real issue here.
Because essentially, WoW and FFXIV have the same type of endgame content. Repeatedl raids and dungeons.
The difference between the two, is that WoW’s endgame gear gives stats, but FFXIV’s does not. You feel that WoW’s is more rewarding, but that does not mean FFXIV has less.
Also, FFXIV has more content outside of raids and dungeons, as mentioned, that automatically makes it better - because it has focus outside of the small number of people who only do one thing and only play one single game in their life.
He is not in charge of anything involving the plot or development of the game the lead dev is just a glorified title …he is a figurehead nothing more nothing less.
The only thing it has to do outside of the pathetically small raid is Bozja, which is 2 zones with nothing to do in them but fate grind-something we’ve been doing as far back as 2.0 already. Sure, sometimes a dungeon run of castrum will spawn in them and that’s cool, but that’s all it has going for it-about 30 minutes of actually unique content.
The regular dungeons are also pathetically sad, they’re all the same thing with no variance between them. There’s more uniqueness in Tazavesh, a single dungeon, then any of the dungeons in shadowbringers, and the rewards in WoW dungeons are actually worth the time as well so that helps.
Also a weird jab-I play about a dozen games at the moment, not sure why you think raiding takes so much a time commitment that you can’t do anything else. Most people only raid 2 or 3 days a week, and only for a few hours on those days. Though with that same raiding schedule, I completed all the savage fights in XIV in 3 weeks, I’m still working on Sanctum after 2 months.
Trueee, let’s go with the creepy guys playing naked cat/bunny girls and the people I met on my 2 weeks in that game that wanted to force me into ERP and the nonexistent endgame content
Yes, it will bore you.
Granted, New World has a lot of potential.
I hope the devs won’t be too discouraged by the release and will keep on improving it.
I am looking forward to seeing New World potentially being good a year from it’s release.
You meet them in FFXIV, others meet them in Goldshire in World of Warcraft.
Big deal, ignore/blacklist and get on with your life.
That is quite typical of MMORPGs that have nothing to offer but raiding in it’s endgame content. Luckily FFXIV actually have things to do outside of raiding.
Serious talk though.
MMORPGs are nothing but raidlog games, which is the biggest problem with the genre. No company have tried to move the genre out of this constant repeat, which is very bothersome. It is why there is much talk about how the MMORPG genre have not at all improved, unlike the FPS genre or whatever, quite the contrary, the MMORPG genre have REGRESSED, which is equally seen with a upcoming game like New World.
Ashes of Creation, likewise, have potential but I just do not see their lofty promises amounting to anything or anything especially different that’ll put it on the map, it’ll mostly cater to a small niche of players.
