Because I dont have as many friends playing GW2.
And
Because Final Fantasy is a universe I like if you exclude its community. I just want a new FF tactics game, not an MMO.
And thats all the mmos that appeal to me.
It feels richer. Iâve been playing MMOs for nearly 20 years and Iâve found nothing that quite matches up to wow for me.
Iâm a huge Star Wars fan, but SWTOR feels clunky, lacking and the graphics feel like runescape level to me.
Although itâs not as great in recent times; i like the story better than any other game as well abs how interesting the classes are. Everything from your basic warrior, to an archer, mage⌠to a death knight and demon hunter. Thereâs practically a class for everyoneâs personality. Iâve always liked that.
Other MMOs that have been released over time always seem to miss the mark because they compromise somewhere. Gameplay, graphics⌠maybe itâs because they donât have the budget/time WoW was given, Iâm not sure.
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The world and racebuilding.
Iâm a long-time blizzard fan, all the way back from WCii. I played everquest prior to WoW though.
The thing that always struck me, and was part of why I was majorly hyped for WoW, was it was a genre I really liked (MMORPG) but with a lore and world I really enjoyed too (I mean EQs lore was okay, but I much preferred blizzards).
Why?
Well blizzard did things a bit differently. Their dwarves werenât just short, Scottish humans. They have beards to the floor, arms as thick as trees and are generally outlandish caricatures.
Their gnomes arenât just very small humans with pointed ears, they have massive heads, eccentric personalities and tons of humour.
Their orcs arenât just faceless mobs, theyâre a playable race, with a culture, identity and more to them than âorc smashâ.
Their trolls are a huge deviation from most trolls in games. Pointed ears and big noses outstanding, rather than being hench and monstrous, theyâre tall but wiry, bright blue, have massive tusks and speak with faux-Jamaican accents and use voodoo magic!
Giant cow man, aka minotaurs (a typically mob race) as playable? But wait, theyâre not just brutes, they have a gentle giant nature culture!
Elves that arenât rehashes of classic formulas; wild elves that are almost feral, transforming into beasts and arenât âfae folkâ in the sense theyâre small and peaceful. Theyâre tall and militant and a little bit xenophobic.
And of course, I can play as a giant anthropomorphic panda with a huge beard. I mean come on.
Wow has itâs moments when it comes to pve direction (grinds and timegating) but when it comes to the world, the characters, the cosmoc and the lore in general, itâs just a flavour I donât think iâll move away from because iâm so used to it and it continually intrigues me. Iâm invested in the world I guess.
Also I do like the gameplay in a general sense (itâs entertaining) and I think their raids and dungeons are good compared to competitors.
Also, as with all blizz games, the art and music team are frankly amazing. I have never played WoW whilst listening to other music. This was actually one of the things that initially really drew me into WoW properly (other than the races I was very familiar of and excited to play as), but coming from EQ, the land and the ambient music I was walking around in was staggeringly good in comparison. The way the music changed when it was nighttime as well, stuff like that. I remember well the valley of trails at night with the music rolling and getting my first âheading into the big worldâ vibes as I ran out the initial area into wider durotar, beneath a starry sky on my very first character a troll rogue!
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for background: I used to play Runescape (not oldschool) for 14+ years with over 13,000 hours logged, ranked in the top 5k players (out of the reported 250m accounts created) and under 1000 for some of the skills.
I left due to some burnout but predominately its obsessive compulsion for predatory, targeted and addiction inducing MTX and pay to win mechanics. You could literally pay to get max skill levels if you hd enough cash and thus youâd never âplay the gameâ (famous youtuber did it with $13 purely through MTX).
After this i switched and tried other games: ESO, SWTOR, BDO to name a few. I settled on WOW purely because i knew it was lore rich and that i could choose a variety of play styles/classes/races.
I started this hunter (im a sucker for ranger classes) and set off on my journey. I loved the whole experience. The story/lore, the environments, my class, even the levelling via quests and dungeons. When i hit max level i got into an m+ community and i still to this day love running m+ and raids all while having fun. I stick around because i still love the environments. I still love the dungeons and raids. i still just love the experience of just playing not to mention ive made some good friends here too.
Im just over a year into my WOW career and i think i will stay here for a good few more.
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What does Final Fantasy 14 do better than WoW? Iâm actually curious to hear your opinion, because when I tried the game, it seemed that everything was copied from WoW, but worse.
WoW is my lifestyle, any other one is a game
Do not see anything worth trying, do not even say playing.
Itâs everything. Mechanics, features, artstyle, story, gameplay, sense of right and wrong. Reflection of reality (to some extent), improving your character and your gear and getting highest dps as you can and all that works in synergy with one another. It has a meaning why you do things.
Because my wife plays this oneâŚ
Spend 2-3 weeks in other mmorpgs and you wonât have need to ask such silly questions. For example swtor recently released new expansion with whooping 2 hours of new story content, after that everyone was sent to grind good old hammerstation (or red reaper if u got stealth) for new gear.
Because you can choose what to do. Thereâs always something you donât have or you want to do, you can spam M+ , then do raids, then farm old content, etc.
I like the art style too, I prefer Diablo style games but well thatâs another type of game.
So yea, for me every time I log in I can do different things.
Ideal MMO in my POV would be as I said on some topics like this before, the one for which the development of : the story would be made either by Bioware or CDPR, the PVE endgame content by Blizzard, the world design by Bethesda. Iâm not an expert for PvP but I guess how Arenanet GW2 devs would be good for that.
Ive tried SWTOR eso and FFXIV.
I dont know but after some time i come back always to wow. I loved wow, i hated wow, i complaint about wow.
But is the only MMORPG i play regualrly
One of my favourite mmos of all time is Lineage 2. The modern iteration of it is just amazing in a lot of ways⌠and what compels me to play it sometimes is the fact that you -have- to triple box but its totally doable using autohotkey scripts which makes it into an almost sort of⌠dragon agesque experience, it is hard to describe.
The lore, the aesthetics, the classes, the monster designs, there are a lot of things about Lineage 2 that I highly prefer to WoW as it is a perfect blend of medieval fantasy combined with some asian influences. Some of the music composed for that game is to die for as well.
But what really kills the mood is⌠well, itâs a corrupt korean MMO, of course it is highly P2W and you simply can never ever compete with the whales that have been playing the game for 10-15 years, stacking all the enchants and whatnot. The community is simply awful and Iâm not one to usually complain about communities but when it comes to LA2, or any asian MMO for that matter, the community is like plumbing the very depths of the abyss of what humanity has to offer.
Tried FF14, its just a safespace hugbox of a game. Feels clunky and outdated, simply donât understand whats the appeal aside from trying to look as queer as possible while you decorate your home. Everyone keeps praising the story, well, let me tell you, its kind of bad, and while it is more nuanced than WoWâs storytelling in places it has its own problems.
Without going into detail as to why I dislike / like any other MMO let me just sum up why I think WoW is still the King:
- Most fluid and enjoyable combat to date, still, which is probably the most important aspect.
- Active PvP, and as much as we like to bash on how imbalanced it is, well⌠you donât know what imbalance is until you try any other MMO, especially one of the P2W asian ones.
3)Max level offers a lot of content to plow through, M+, raiding, PvP, and even some solo content. - Enjoyable aesthetics. They might not be my favourite but Blizzard has been improving a lot. Questing zones such as Suramar prove that the game can be very aesthetic and beat games like FF14 which are supposedly graphically superior into the dust.
- Highly customizable UI, no other MMO offers this much customizability through mods.
6)Popcorn worthy soap opera of a story that I love to bash on but still canât help but follow along with, kind of like a football fan entranced by his TV despite him yelling at the team heâs rooting for at the top of his lungs because he thinks theyâre all imbeciles. - Customer service is great. Despite what bad experiences some might have had you havenât dealt with sht customer service until youâve tried contacting support in an asian MMO(specially if youâre not one of the whales).
Thatâs just off the top of my head. If I had to nominate my second favourite itâd have to be Guild Wars 2.
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Because all other mmos are trash tier copycats.
Its like saying âwhy do so many people drink Coca Cola, when we have so many other cola drinks?â.
I also plray TF2, CS:GO and Overwatch.
TF2 just for Halloween Event, cuz its fun and you get nice hats.
I bought Overwatch but I intall-delete it every month.
CS:GO - mostly only for the weekly item drop and then I sell it in the market. Im from Bulgaria and Im 99% of the time in MatchMaking with russians so I love to mock them about Putin, USA, ISIS, ALLAH, etc and its very fun to record videos how they spit on me on voice chat 
I tried guildwars but couldnât get into it. Even though wow lacks customisation I really enjoy that you can make characters look rugged/rough. Whereas in guildwars even the old grey haired butcher is a 6 foot ripped goliath.
I try other MMOs but then they arenât WoW and I miss it and I come back appreciating everything all over again.
Classic had the same effect. It gave me a whole new appreciation for how the game has changed and improved over the years.
I canât exactly pin point what it is, some of it is familiarity probably. Whilst I may like some things in other games, most of the time I just want them all to be WoW in different universes 
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No one playing âŚaaaah⌠Fortnite? Its kinda RPG.
I want a HUGE, MASSIVE MMO where cross-universes are possible 
Star Wars, WoW, etc. Just to be able to travel with your WoW character to another galaxy and play in SWTOR universe, etc. That would be great 
If all MMOs merge and be in one massive game.
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