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‘No king rules forever, my son’
Terenas Menethil
Has World of Warcraft been beaten by Final Fantasy 14?
Or…
Has World of Warcraft been so badly handles, mislead and broken over the last few years, players are leaving to look for a higher quality MMO, and FF14 just happens to be there when they need it?
Either way, the reign of King WoW, may be coming to a close.
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Well, a year later WoW Dragonflight is running about 3 times the players that FFXIV. It flows back and forth depending on the expansion. Maybe FF15 brings them back, but the next WoW expansion could swing it all back.
Frankly wow is dying because of attrition of new players. New players don't stay because the entire story of wow is so disjointed and broken that practically has 0 story hooks that the player can get.. well.. hooked on.. You get an A+ starting experience, then the story takes you out of exiles reach and just dumps you in a main city with a battle for azeroth starting quest, and very little direction once in the bfa zone and because all the story conclusions are locked behind raids you literally can't get a conclusion for any of the plotlines it opens. WOW assumes all people playing are mechanical players and because of that for the devs, old stories are an afterthought.
I went from WoW to FFXIV during mid BFA and I regret nothing. I tried WoW again durimg Dragonflught but it just didn't hit the same.
I've quit WoW more times than MMO's I've tried to play
let's be totally honest. WoW combat is boring as hell. I'm really surprised on how it lasted so long
I had tried playing WoW a while back, around when time travel was released I think, and I just couldn't understand what was happening at all. When I joined FFXIV, I had one button. I press button, damage happens. Then, I level, get a new button, and do more damage. The cycle repeats throughout the levels.
I feel FFXIV is a lot more beginner friendly, since it keeps things simple, and gives you time to understand your abilities before throwing you a new one to test and try.
It also allows players to come in and experience the whole story, start to finish, on their own time, unlike Destiny 2 and WoW (from what I remember). You don't get to see the game world during "x" expansion. In FFXIV, you move into NEW areas in the world to continue the story. You don't change the current areas, just add onto them.
This video was incredibly repetitive…
Short answer, yes.
Only WoW could kill WoW.
"Has the click-bait title gotten this video more views than normal?!"
Nael'd it.
I wouldn't say that FF14 can ever hope to kill WoW tbh, people will always go play WoW, and I tried both. WoW is very easy to play on your own, FF14 is hard to play on your own. I didn't like Ff14 and would never play it again unless they fix what they fucked up.
lmfao
Weird to find this two years later because… WoW is still the king by a pretty wide margin.
i like how after one expansion of shit people flock to the new expansion instantly i should know i did the exact same thing
Can't kill what's already dead.
Bit late but man. I tried FFXIV during shadowlands, like most people desperate for for something better, and just kind of found it gray. The feeling, the graphics everything. I ended up going back to WoW after with a greater appreciation for it. It's a game with a lot of pretty things to look at and funny stories to tell if you're just willing to stop and read.
Meh. Wow was just the first one on my radar. I always thought the story and game cycle was superficial at best and without alternatives it was good enough. FF14 has all the parts I liked about WoW but had a much better story, content, challenges, music… it literally does everything better in every way and it doesn’t torture you for wanting to play its most challenging content with ridiculous farms and unrelated shit. The clear needs to be the challenge, not the door into the raid.
Wow always has and always will suck. I can think of a bunch of mmo's far superior to that crap. My 5 year old can draw better character models and environments.
Haven't played since the beginning of shadowbringers, watching this makes me want to get back into it.
Lots of emotions and feelings attached to this title. Maybe it's time to come back
the WoW andys are so locked in that WoW could devolve to only a small room with a black void outside the window and nothing else to do other than sit in that room and they would still play it
90% of people that play world of warcraft are balding men in their 30s or 40s