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Final Fantasy XIV, there’s been a lot of buzz about this game in the wow community recently, so I decided to give it a shot, and play the game for a few hours at night, every day, for about a week. And in this video I’m in a go over all of my first impressions from trying out the game, from the perspective of a longtime World of Warcraft player, going through essentially the intro level stuff.
(7 hours and 40 minutes of play time. Got to level 17 on a Archer. Not half bad, 5/7, would continue)
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"You either quit during ARR, or become a walking advertisement for FFXIV."
mfw he picked archer, literal unfun dogshit job lol
If you buy the game through steam its braindead easy to install it. just like any other steam game.
Once you get to Ishgard the game opens up immensely also the combat is much better once you get more ogcds
I've played up to level 20 of FF and I have one major problem that keeps me from reading most of the quest text. It's given in these tiny text boxes for about a novels worth of writing for quests as simple as kill 6 squirrels. I really enjoy reading quest text for WoW for one because I simply enjoys WoWs writing more but also because they've been writing whole quests in this super summarized format for years have gotten really good at it. Even back in Cata I remember so many generic leveling quests from the old world because they were just written in an appealing easy to digest fashion. It's a style the encourages cutting out all the fluff and keeping only the memorable bits. In Hillsbrad there's 2 characters I remember much more than the 3 heros. Apothecary Underhill for his devotion to spiders and comedically large disdain for bears. The second being Muckgill who's quest only starts after you kill him and the quest is to find someone who cares that you killed him the person you turn that quest into btw doesn't car and just says he's baffled why you think he would. FF I just found reading the quest text so unappealing that I just didn't half the time, as a result I can only remember about 3 characters, the 2 that got whole cutscenes dedicated to them and the women I only remember as "Mother" because you go talk to her about 300 times in the first 10 levels of questing.
tl:dr I like reading quest text but FF goes way to hard on it for my taste since most of it feels like fluff text. I love world building so if I wanted to learn about the fungi, how they function and interact with the world I'd rather it be done through something like a codex rather than one off quest text.
its heaps easier just to buy it on steam
This isn't a jab, just curious: how much did you actually play? Level 17 should only take a few hours. The game has some real opening up points like level 30 when you get your class evolution (Archer becomes Bard etc.) and at level 50 you have most of your tool kit which dramatically changes combat and makes it way more engaging. Also, the story get's better and better as you level. It's pretty basic/straight forward at early levels. Sounds like you enjoy lore and story, I'd highly recommend you at least complete A Realm Reborn (thought the expac after – Heavensward – is even better).
1:50 complaining about a lot of waiting, but doesn't use Bloodletter once (It's an OGCD!) 2:20 every action has a cast time and animations lock you in this game. You can sometimes weave 2 oGCD's in between your regular weaponskill/spell GCD window. 14:30 is absolutely false, a one-time password (authenticator) is NOT required to register the game, it's totally optional and I didn't set mine up for months. 15:45 the 2.5s GCD becomes a non-issue very quickly. Between spell/skill speed and oGCDs the APM will be very high before you know it.
Downloading the Game was the First hurdle for me when i was like 16 or so. Everything i did was troubleshooting till it ran with so many steps to just let the launcher boot (never knew why i had so many problems with it) also my Internet Connection was so slow that i had to Download it over some days, where my gametime already counted down which was sad. Now i quit official wow and back to final Fantasy because i dont Like how i was treated there, ever since i started playing ffxiv i Had much more player Interactions in 1 week than playing wow from pandaria till now (talking in Dungeons, chatting with people who are on the same quest, stuff like that) everyone is just nice ans helpful to new players (sprouts).
It is a very good game.
Dungeons are good and the mechanics are quite neat. Crafting is actually useful. Etc.
It is a game for a different demographic.
verry poor game
11:24 coming from someone who played private servers for a decade, let me tell you something: the instant flight path and flightmasters known location? It's 100% preference. They can make it instant, that's how it work in private server like firestorm or the defunct etherside now Circle wow. They explained why they have the travel time, so players can explore the surroundings, find other people roaming around or the animal behavior. The same idea why they made the gnomish airport, just to look cool. It's an aspect of aesthetic and Fantasy they wanted to retain. Supposedly FF has cool backgrounds but you TP so you miss the upper view of them unless one purposefully "flies around" to simulate the experience 🤔
Personally z i don't care, it's like 2 minute of downtime i can search music on YouTube, or check TikTok, whatever, it's a non factor , and like you said, one can always use hearthstone or other items
Watching the game i go…wait this shit costs 40$ ? It looks horrible, and i mean it looks like a browser game. The animations are clunky, the Scorpions move or float? After playing free Genshin i thought "well since this thing is pure cinematic and text it might as well look cute" but hellno
Thanks for the video, now i have more reasons not to download this shitty game.
One last thing tho, could it be your feeling of awe comes from trying something different rather than something "good" ? Like, if the places were swapped and you always played FF then tried WoW, the slicker design, faster "to play and not to read" style, and the more focused to your character rather than 100 secondary dudes , would you feel awe as well? I say this bc i had that idea of overwatch after playing Paladins for years, and once I finally tried overwatch… It felt like garbage, but i know I'd have loved it if i hadn't tried paladins before overwatch as it looked like a better Team Fortress 2
I've been getting more into FFXIV as well, felt pretty similarly to you as a WoW veteran (I was never a super serious WoW player but I did play it a lot throughout my childhood and in general). Its been pretty good, I'm around Level 44 and I can attest that the story does get better later. My only real complaint is, as you mentioned, the lack of races that aren't just pretty anime people. I get that a ton of people prefer to play that kind of character even in WoW, as you mention, but I really liked the oddball races of WoW like Trolls, Goblins, Tauren, and Worgen, so it made me a little sad to see the closest I could get to that was Hrothgar…but the animations of Hrothgar look awkward and the customization for them is very limited, so I couldn't stand playing one lol. Hopefully when they finally drop female Hrothgar, they'll have fixed those issues without making them diet Miqo'Te.
the reason why i love FFXIV cuz of the people and story
Lol they really do need to streamline purchasing the game. After all these years Its still a nightmare. First hardcore content you get is downloading the game.
It's kinda funny hearing so many WoW players "complain" about the gcd in ffxiv being too slow. Having played both ffxiv and WoW at max level, there is no way you'll convince me that WoW has faster combat, and directly comparing the gcd just tricks you. As I'm saying this I'm currently looking at gear sets with a gcd of 2,40 or 2,43, thinking 2,40 might be too fast for me. lol!
Just a heads up, if you are tanking in a dungeon then wait for the mobs to die before moving on. WoW has a lot of skills that let you do decent AoE damage on the move while XIV is slower in that regard. Not to mention positionals are needed in a lot of classes so if the mobs are always on the move then they are missing their skills and buffs drop because they can't do their rotation. Just a small PSA.
I didn't had problems buying and downloading the game, am i missing something?
Its a pretty good video gave it a like you having played WoW for awhile (i'm not sure how long or how many years) ffxiv feels slow at low levels it gets better at higher levels trying to stick in OGCD's between your rotation or procs it might be a different playstyle.. You dont actually experience your full rotation until max level you might feel it a little bit through Heavensward.. I dont think ARR story is bad its just a slow build up world setting, introducing characters ARR might be hurting WoW players trying to come over because they're probably not used to such a lengthy story and rushing to endgame stuff I've also seen others enjoy it.. My favorite was watching a WoW streamer who skipped all the story going back to re-play it and ended up crying it was really wholesome..
Why is your voice sound familiar?
new FF14 player myself…started a week ago. i just went to website, registered and downloaded the game for the free trial. left the temporary password empty (which showed a mark being OPTIONAL) and was done with it.
Yes, the plot gets waaay better as you move later on in the game. I believe you would've got a better combat experience if you played a melee dps class like monk instead of ranged. Additionally, I saw that you didn't try out professions. Professions are way more elaborate and deep in FF. So much that WOW's upcoming profession revamp in DF has inspirations directly adapted from it.
wrong. There is a mythic plus mode. its called buying and installing the game.
FFs highest APM spec is close to the same as WoW's lowest APM spec.
Enough said.
Oh almost forgot, piss poor netcode as well.
Did not expect TheDualLogs when i click on this video on my recommended tab…… AST main?
It is still fukn hard to buy the game, I got it like January last year and it took me like 20 minutes to figure fukn mogstation out, and honestly every time I forget to leave money in my account for the sub and have to re sub it still takes me like 20 minutes to figure it out again
Now for the important part of rhe game: shows half naked rabbit girl running around.
In most ff14 is better than 2023 WoW, i Just wish they got somethig similar to wows Mithic Dungeons, that would make ff14 miles better in my op
The story is so good, at one point I began ugly crying and had to put the game down for almost a week. Your "alts" are all on one character, so no needing to start all over to have fun. Also you can do anything in this game, like anything form being a club owner to an love escort. Yes you get paid good gold for it too.
I will certainly agree though the beginning of the game, ARR, is extremely slow. It picks up a lot by level 50+ or near the end of it, but is slow; and absolutey borderline nightmare fuel if as a White Mage.
I only enjoy vanilla wow. Its about the obly game ive played since 2005. Ive tried ff and i wanted to like it, i had a max lvl scholar and did dgs and its a great game but much like retail wow, is not for meee
FF14 isnt voiced, sounds boring