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Final Fantasy 14 Has RUINED World Of Warcraft For Me…
I never thought I would love FFXIV this much… I’m not longer addicted to World of Warcraft but through my journey of trying other MMOs, Final Fantasy 14 sticks out as one of my favorites so far.
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Final Fantasy 14 Reminds Me Of When I First Tried WoW because of the quaint little towns at the beginning of both games. The warm sense of Goldshire when first created my Human Warrior back in 2006. The music of the human starting area and the screeches of the kobolds. Final Fantasy 14 gave me a similar vibe with the music, lush forests, and the quaint little town. The NPCs were very well made, and the graphics compared to some of today’s popular RPG titles. FF14 reminds me more of an RPG than an MMORPG, and so far is delivering on all fronts as a great game I want to return to.
I’ve played WoW since 2006, 2 months before The Burning Crusade came out. In this video, I go over why FFXIV ruined WOW For me.
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I know how you feel. I can't even log into WoW anymore without feeling FF14 is just better. Even something as simple as flying just seems more streamlined than WoW ever could. In FF14 it just feels more natural and I'm not even sure why but back in WoW it just feels janky and kind of haphazard. I also take one look at what the game considers is, "progression," and immediately cringe at the near vertical cliff it takes to just get to a certain point to even do Heroic or Mythic dungeons. In FF14 its as simple as completing the MSQ and volah, done! WoW in contrast just feels like you've had your arms, legs and feet amputated and told, "go climb Mount Everest USING YOUR FACE!"😖
No one tell him that there are class specific quests that actually relate to the main story in ffxiv, he will explode.
Another video to come back to in a few months and laugh at how bad the copium comments have aged. Y'all just can't stand you're living in WoW's shadow ad infinitum. It took a perfect storm to even have a chance to be in the limelight but that's looong over by now and you're back to irrelevancy.
You guys got grifted so hard by content creators and actually believed it was all genuine. And this guy is doing the same thing, first GW2 now FF. How delusional are you guys it's almost sad at this point 😅
I've start playing FFXIV after quitting wow last Year. Actual in Stormblood and i enjoy it. Ok, someone could say, i am slow, but its ok, i progress by my way. Last Mouth i've reactivated wow to run some dungeosn with my friends. But besides of that, i haven't any motivation to progress in the story of wow, run some Farm runs etc. I would also say, that FFXIV has ruined WOW for me and it is ok. I've played wow since BC. Its time to move to another experience.
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One thing that stood out to me when I moved from WoW to FFXIV was the developer's attitude to their players. Every year they have an event (The Rising) with a cutscene that features the game's director Yoshi P thanking you for playing their game.
And in the run-up to Endwalker, Yoshi P was asked what players should do if they feel themselves burning out on FFXIV. His response? "Take a break, there's plenty of other wonderful games out there, we'll be here when you want to return." Such a refreshing change from Blizzard trying to milk every last cent from their players.
I'd say WoW made people leave WoW. FFXIV just re-affirmed their decision.
FF14 will never beat World of Warcraft and once Dragonflight comes out it will kick FF14 ass and prove that it still have teeth in the MMO space. For now, World of Warcraft is a cornered animal and when a animal is cornered that’s what makes it even more dangerous. But sure you can defend FF14 but it will fall to dragonflight.
Let's be real WoW ruined WoW for you by being so limiting in what you can do, whether it be what job you can do on one character, what class you can be effective with on one character. And god forbid if you don't pick the meta class. All the bad patches and expansions as of late.
Don't play ff14 it's all buggy
I would enjoy playing FF14, if there was actually end-game.
I just click videos with semi-clickbait title or uninformative title and dislike them
TL;DR – FFXIV > WoW
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Cool. Go play FFXIV then.
TKANGELS_00: There's a way we can do it in a more 'story mode' fashion…… Im gonna go out on a limb and say he's talking about Coils and doing it un-synced so all you have to worry about is enjoying the story part of it. 😀
Also… a bit late.. But Welcome to FFXIV! Enjoy the ride, and make sure to stock up on Tissues for Feelsbringers (ShadowBringers) and Feelswalker (Endwalker).
so to preface, i'm new to playing mmos and i don't think i've ever played a final fantasy game. however, i've sunk so many hours into ff14 in the past week (starting with the free trial before i decided to buy the complete package) and decided to try the free trial for WoW because why not but i just couldn't. i didn't make it past the tutorial area because it felt too painful to play through. i wanted to try it, but i'm perfectly fine staying with ff14.
This. WoW is more focused on World building because of this WoW and specially classic are flow state games to me. I can play it and just turn my brain off while ff14 asks me to engage with it.
I'm new to mmos. Started with wow and loved it. But wow ff14 is even better
FF14 has one of the best stories ever told.
Wow's story is completely convoluted and a big meh.
Really? I hate all this reading, it was ultimate skip for me , i did like it but but nah
FFXIV has Housing … WoW not. 🤣 WoW just fails to keep up.
FFXIV has unforgettable moments in the Main Scenario Quest. WoW OST and the Game itself is one thing since years: FORGETTABLE
OK but wow is much older and not a great comparison.
ESO is pretty close in terms of quality. They both have faults, but are probably the best two mmos. I don't think anything else makes the cut to actually compare. Wow just sneaks in because of its legacy back when it was pretty much the only mmo other than runescape.
As veteran of FF14 welcome to the game. May you always walk in the light of the Crystal
I think the main thing I have noticed is that FFXIV has no 'gear grind'. No 'raid or die'. And virtually no one sitting on your shoulder trying to say that you must play X way. Enjoying it. I did start a second character or two, only to play some of the early MSQ that I haven't seen in two years, and/or to try a different race, but no alt-ing on the scale of WoW. I also love that the other two MMOs you named that ruined WoW for you are GW2 and ESO. I still play those some, too. I haven't even thought about Dragonflight, though. Not buying it, not preordering it, NOT playing it.
For me it's the fashionable part. Gear is more detailed and often have unique models in FF, everything is textures in wow and most appearances are locked behind raiding.
The transmog system is good… but I really felt the lack of dye system really limits your options in Wow when i went back for a little bit.
Final Fantasy also has this tiny, but very big difference that's it's only the current progression stuff that's on the weekly lockout, everything else you can farm for appearances and drops as you wish, at your own pace, whenever you want. It's a simple thing but really how games should be, about fun and doing what you want when you want to.
(Thouth i wish FF had big open zones instead of instanced areas, and that you could Opt-out of Realm Reborn content in the Duty Finder… low lvl stuff is just awful as it is in every game).
Ahh he still in honeymoon phase hell be back to wow like the rest of em.
A lot of people say ARR is bad. But I look at it this way, if you even find ARR mildy interesting, then you'll be blown away with what's to come. Yes its the weakest part of the game but it by no means is really that bad as ppl say.
My favorite thing about FFXIV is the story is extremely engaging. I gone into the game wanting to rush to endgame, but after the first 10 minutes I didn’t even care. I kept wanting to see what happens next, how my character will look in the next cutscene, etc.
My favorite is the class quest. Is combat fun at low levels, no; and I’m playing a White Mage (healer). But the flashy graphics, sound effects, and pull of the quest chains keep it going.
It’s honestly surprising how much they really put into it. It’s hard to explain. Something this deep shouldn’t be possible. It’s like they put everything you ever wanted into a MMO and made it into FFXIV. The fact you can try 90% of the game for free with the free trial just says volumes on the developer’s faith in their product.
A good example: You can literally own a nightclub and pay other players to be employees. Yes, they exist. Multiple in fact.
Is it perfect? No. It’s beyond that. It’s perfect for you.
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Also the music. Dear god it’s so dang good. I’m only level 20 and I can’t get enough of it. Whoever composes this stuff seriously deserves a reward.
Ff14 is so boring it pushed me back to wow. Lack of good content, boring profession, tedious crafting, lacking end game, time gating, the fucking queerness of. No skill tree. All thise jobs but you can only main 1. Seriously. FF14 is over hyped. The only good thing of FF ia the MSQ which is solo. You can do all of it solo. And the scaling. It doesnt matter how strong you are. You will always be set to a certain power level in group content. It makes it irrelevant to power up. Seriously. FF14 has THE BEST STORY I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED IN ANY GAME.
But its also THE WORST mmo(serious mmo) i have ever played. Cant wait to go back to wow.
The Final Fantasy series in general has always been about telling a compelling story through the medium of a fun game. That is their chief concern, because that story is what hooks you in. In my mind, it is what gives their games such incredible replay-ability, because even when you 100% a game, you will still be drawn back to experience the story again and again and again. Add to that FFXIV's versatility in how you can play, the fact that you can put it down for months and pick it right back up with no problems, and the fact that over time you can unlock more things to do, and it is far superior than WoW to me. I got into WoW because it was a fun game I could play with my family, but the heavy emphasis on raiding, gear grinding, and rushing through everything in a forcibly social environment made it very hard for me to play solo. Not to mention the sheer time commitment needed for the game. I was HAPPY to leave it behind for FFXIV.
Basically, Final Fantasy XIV has everything that World of Warcraft doesn't have, everything they should have, and they get rid of things that should not be in World of Warcraft. They are basically the MMO World of Warcraft could have been if they didn't make so much bad decisions, not saying World of Warcraft is a bad game but the direction they are going and the choices they have made over the years have just led to the boring gameplay, toxic community, and Final Fantasy doesn't have those problems when an MMO player is playing it. It offers everything that most MMOs don't offer and more.
GW2 ruined both for me 😄
My favorite part of FF14 is when it "ended." Real Uberchads play HC wow, not shallow and depressingly boring Weeb simulator 14. You'll be back when you realize no one but cringe weirdos likes ff14.
Why do none of you guys mention that you can level your mounts to fight along side you
Im a really casual WoW player that saw all the hype and tried FF14. Let me premise this by saying I love JRPGs, I make a point to play two JRPGs at Christmas time every year.
This is the worst JRPG or MMO I have ever played. I gave it 25 hours, that’s enough of my time to
make a sound judgement.
If the story doesn’t hook you in 1 hour it’s a bad story, if it fails after 25 hours then it’s a horrendous story and I have never done so many “talk to this person” quests ever in my life. If I read a book and get to chapter 3 and hate it so put the book down and then someone says “but if you just waited to the last chapter you’ll see it’s good” then the book is not good. Same for a film and the same for this “story”.
WoWs story is better simply because of its pacing.
Combat is slow, boring and threat less compared to WoW.
The community is weird, like some people need their computers checked weird.
There seems to be a cult around the game where everyone pretends it’s super friendly but the moment you criticise anything your chewed out.
The world is completely lifeless and dull.
I don’t like the way I have to change to a particular job to see gathering materials, that’s just shit.
I didn’t like how the zones are like 3D PS2 levels with no modern open world.
I don’t like the endless text boxes saying nothing and no voice acting from a AAA studio.
The only thing I can think of that is good was being able to practice a dungeon with NPCs. That’s it. I have no clue what the fuss was about and I honestly believe that many WoW players made the leap and heaped praise at first but are now at the mercy of the cat girl squad and can’t be bothered with the hate.
I’m 20 hours into FF14 and the simple fact that people wanted to help me learn rather shit talk or try and kick me from the group tells me a lot about what I’m getting into.
Idk what, but World of warcraft really did something to this guy. Reminds me of a crazy ex
There is hardly a social aspect when you are SOLOING the main story questline….the only times u interact with other players as part of the MSQ is when u do the dungeons and then never see those same players again after