They can’t excatly beat wow. In numbers maybe but still in the end ffxiv is not wow. Will never be.
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I thought it was a lovely article.
People can enjoy other games without needing to use it as a means to bash WoW. L
Even though I didn’t take to FF, I enjoy seeing friends enjoy the game.
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Thats Japanese honor in not making fun of the enemy who lies on the ground
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I totally agree! But I also think a little negative feedback is healthy for wow. It means they might push harder for next expansion.
In Cata people complained, then came MOP which many people seemed happy about.
In WOD people complained, then came Legion which many people seemed happy about.
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I’m not saying people can’t be constructive but they rarely are.
I didn’t like FF and don’t want WoW to become like it. I want WoW to be WoW. However I would love to see player housing but not because another game does. Various MMOs have them tbf
It’s also the hypocrisy that people are super upset about wow having cosmetics in a shop when FF has a bigger version. I love their chubby kitten mount and the fat chocobos.
Every player can probably list things they’d personally prefer in WoW. Changes etc. There will always be huge variations in what people enjoy.
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Yoshi-P is such a cool guy. This is exactly the kind of attitude we need.
The thing I hate the most about the whole XIV-WoW debate is precisely this: we’re playing videogame wars, while the devs love and respect each other.
We could be sharing experiences, having fruitful discussions stemming from a genuine interest about game design, our communities overlapping could be a good thing, and instead here we are, making all this negativity up just to inflate our fragile egos.
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A game designer who’s philosophy revolves around being able to play other games and not feeling left out, and yet, we’ve got the usual suspects going around trying to spin into some sort of battle.
‘lol i quit wow going to play ff14!’
‘Great! Been talking about this for years, it’s really fun’.
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Same applies for ESO, GW2, OSRS, and whatever else floats your boat. Just have a good time in all seriousness.
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If BFA was any indication they didn’t push harder, they instead doubled down on the annoying systems.
faes don’t look for power, in-g quote ;)
I honestly fail to see how many of the “This is the worst patch ever I’ll go play FF14” posts can even remotely be described as feedback. They tend to be so outlandish that the only thing you learned is that the poster is angry, and that’s it. Hard to take someone throwing hyperboles left and right seriously.
Blizz has constantly received negative feedback since at the very least Legion, and we’ve been going through the same motions twice already.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a year or two from now people start fondly remembering Shadowlands much like they currently do for Legion and sometimes BFA (like the good old “BFA was more alt friendly” nonsense), simply by virtue of selective memory & completely forgetting the first half of the expansions.
Doesn’t mean that the game is flawless, not by a long shot really. But when people think that legion was great and alt friendly they tend to think of 7.3, of the legendary items vendor and the crazy catch-up that made AP irrelevant.
All while conveniently forgetting that players spent months locked in a single spec and character because of the AP grind preventing them from reaching parts of their class design, or how of you didn’t get a good legendary among your 4 first drops then you would have to live with it or delete your character & start again. Fixed in 7.1.5 iirc, so nearly 8 months of bugged legendary acquisition.
Feedback is important, yes. But the cesspool we tend to find here does not help, especially when they can’t argue without hyperboles or outright lies.
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FF didn’t kill wow, wow is however killing itself.
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I really enjoy how candid, and humble their team is over there. I still remember they wanted to do a music collab with WoW and I still really hope to see some sort of collab between the teams.
Honestly, we aren’t really. This whole them vs us thing is skin deep. It’s a tiny amount of people doing an immense amount of screeching.
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I dont get why people playing FFXIV, it is awful, ugly and boring.
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Because he’s both humble, and is striving towards making the game much better than what it already is.
He’s not satisfied with the current state of surpassing wow. He wants to reach lich king expansion levels of players. That’s what he sees as the success wow had and that’s his goal for his game.
To be fair, all these additional systems (especially Torghast) are also collecting and logging a bunch of new ‘individual player to class’ data sets.
I’m not going to argue whether that’s good or bad.
Personally I prefer less interlinked-staggered systems but it will undeniably give the team new insights into solo player/class behavior.
I wouldn’t write the Blizzard team off yet, they have have a lot of experience and have reinvented core game elements before in the past.
As Yoshi said, they set the standard.
i hope anyone plays FFXIV instead of giving Jeff Bezos the MMORPG market, wow still dying but better if japan kills it instead of jeff
Yoshi-P is more of a game director to wow than ion is. sad.
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Strange article.
I don’t see WoW and FF14 being rivals and I personally think some people are missing the bigger message of what ff14 vs wow actually means.
FF14 is being used as a concept to prove to Blizzard has been less than good latley.
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