By biggest reason for playing FFXIV is that i can actually play it.
I mainly pub in WOW and it’s so difficult to get invited into groups if you’re not 250 ilvl that it’s just pointless. I’ve literally spent hours waiting to get an invite for a heroic raid, constantly getting declined, it doesn’t matter whether you can do the mechanics or not. If you’re not high ilvl, you’re not getting an invite. Plus requirements are stupid, ilvl of raid 239, but you must have 240 to join ???
Making a group is just as hard, wait for an hour to get people, wipe - half of raid is gone. Oh you don’t have a warlock ??? Well good luck mate.
Also guilds have the same unrealistic requirements, if any of them are even alive at this point, as i can’t find a guild with more than 10 people online.
Let me put it like this:
In games like WoW, Guild Wars 2 or ESO (Out of the games that I have played) that try to contain some kind of story, you are given titles that ought to command some authority or respect, but you are often delegated to being a lackey to the important characters.
In FF14, you are given an active role in the story, and are treated as such. You may have a title of “Warrior of Light”, but you at least get to do stuff.
Example, taken from parts of Shadowbringers: Boss enemies are scattered in zones, you take them on and you absorb their essence which leaves you in a bad state. In WoW you’d have either someone else absorb the essence and then you’d have to help them carry on. Or a part that I certainly liked: You giving a speech to a crowd, as opposed to sitting back and having another character give a speech.
I don’t care if you like the game’s writing or not, but you have to admit that there writing in WoW is REALLY sub-par compared to FF14.
That’s your opinion and no, I will not admit that because it appears that I quite like the writing in WoW. Because problem too me doesn’t appear to be writing, rather community that is not really intelligent but attracted to game like WOW thinking that they are.
If you like FF14, it’s fine.
It’s completely pointless to come to this forum telling us how we should like it as well.
I liked Dungeons&Dragons Dark Alliance and I am willing to admit that the game is far from a stellar experience. You can like something but still admit that something else could be seen as a better choice.
You can still appreciate something even on a different forum.
Entertaining you’d ignore literally everything else I debunked. Do you lowkey know you were mistaken?
I do not complain when people make mistakes, unless they repeat them after being given advice (which you’re not allowed to give in FF14, mind you). I don’t even care if they play bad, depending on the content. However, if I end up carrying and still don’t get a commendation, that feels worse than just not having the system in the first place. And that’s what I meant with the system being out of place.
And to say that they ‘prohibit people from being toxic’ is false, entirely, because toxicity goes both ways. They ensure there’s no quality control for players. This leads to toxic casualism. I could sign up for a raid in FF14 right now, claim to be new (doesn’t matter if I actually am), stand in literally everything you can stand in, spend 90% of the fight dead, and nobody gets to speak up. That’s toxic, whether you like it or not, and in FF14, it’s encouraged. I could do something more productive while afk (aka dead), while other people do the fight for me, and get rewarded just as much at the end. And this happens. A lot. Because there’s no way to stop people from doing it.
But judging by how incredibly wrong you were in your first post (which I debunked in its entirety), and how insanely toxic your reply here is (oh, the irony), I can only assume you are the type of person to abuse this. I can see why you don’t like WoW’s community, where your kind gets plucked out like the leeches you are (even if it is done to too lengthy extremes, which I also don’t agree with).
If you sign up for something, you are expected to be capable of doing it. This doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to make mistakes, we’re all human. There’s a fine line between someone instantly going for your throat if you make one mistake (tends to happen in WoW), and you being allowed to spend the entire fight dead and them not being allowed to speak a word about it (tends to happen in FF14). Both are abusable and wrong. I just rather have one where people are expected to be good, even if the standards get pushed way too high. I could go on about toxic elitism vs toxic casualism for ages, but I’m sure you get the point.
Mage tower pissed me off enough to buy FF14, i logged in did a few things, logged off. its welllll shiiiiiit lol. but the direction wow is going and how things are, theres not much option left but play GTA 5 with mods over the cristmas period
this is my problem with wow lately. content seems to be designed just to appease who want “push high”. This is a thing that makes me cry. There should be content for all the ppl, from a filthy casual to high end heroes.
A player like me can just do chores and unfun content. Open world content is a mess since the end of legion.
In the past i used to run some dungeon to gain some gear and have a simpler life while questing. With the introduction of the chrono run in legion i gave up.
Why? Since i play just for fun and the mechanics are becomin too complicated for me (i can understand ppl dont like to have just tank and spank mechs but learn some hyper complicated mechs where a mistake means death is not my cup of tea) and i dont wanna ruin other ppl exp.
Communities for ppl like me exists but sincerely… why running a +5 when i can gear with wq?
I maintain my sub up just because in a moment of drunkness i bought a 6 month sub: so i hate waste money and im tryin just to get some achie or mount and rep.
But world of warcraft is no more my preferred one: and im not alone. im seein fewer and fewer ppl in game. this morning to kill mortanis in mxx (with the daily quest in mxx active) there wasnt anyone for hours. on draenor horde side.
And my heart bleed.
wow! were you succesful in logging in? yesterday in queue i was the 4569th.
ive seen and had log in queues of 5k and 10k in both games
altho rarely but still it happened
saw the same about maldrax wboss one day there were 0 players there
next day i saw 1 group who just killed it and half alliance group came to do the same(warmode off) with few horde joining in
Not sure why people need to compare games like ff14 v Wow it’s a pointless conversation… enjoy playing what you want to play and let them be separate things - better yet enjoy both as they both do separate things well - ff14 better story / wow better end game
I refer you to my last answer, not everyone is into Driving games…Super Mario had some limited appeal because it was bundled with a SNES I bought way back in the day…then, I bought Castlevania, 'nuff said.
Like I said, that’s on the individual player, only you can decide whether or not you are going to let ‘Fomo’ control you… sometimes, peeps need to step back, give their head a wobble and remind themselves it’s only a game, therefore it’s not the end of the world (of Warcraft) if I don’t have a particular item*… particularly since the sparkle/swagger is very often short lived and the item then just gathers dust in a bank slot, achie and/or title archive.
…suggested to be played.
Don’t like the suggestion? then play it differently and let the metrics do the talking to the Devs…however, as long as you keep pushing the Fomo feed bar, you get more Fomo, because the metrics say you like it.
