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FFXIV Worth?
davc123
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aftre 2years i want go back play mmorpg is FFXIV Worth ? is good for long terma its have good EndGame ? is popular?
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If you haven't played the game before there is a trial you can use which is for 14 days but you can't join a FC while using the trial but you can get to see what the game is like.
Like most mmo's it is fun for a month or two and its longevity depends on the friends and relationships you form. If you meet a great group of people you may find it the greatest mmo of all time as it has the basics down as far as content.
Endgame for FFXIV is very latency/speed orientated where doing savage mode (the real hard modes) are near impossible with a ping over 80 w/o dieing a few times. At endgame it gets very dull very fast. Crafting as well is very dull as well and very grindy w/o much of a purpose as the best crafted gear which takes a maxed gear crafter to make pretty much is worse off then the normal endgame raid gear.
So I'd say its definately worth picking up and playing to through to the end as long as you enjoy stories. If you dislike stories and just want endgame then its not for you likely.
tldr: Do you want to play a worse version of WoW with prettier graphics and Final Fantasy nostalgia? If yes, then play this game.
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Yes i stayed up all night the servers didn't come back on until 11am my time so i was very tired, I was in a queue of about 900 and something when i logged on but i eventually got an apartment where most of our FC is, I'm in apartment 10 mist 7 topmast subdivision.
I must say i was a little disappointed with the apartment because when i got to the area hours before maintenance i was thinking oh i can see why my FC picked here for the apartments because it will have a lovely view, Sadly you can't see out of the windows so there is no view and it's basically just a box room, So anyone thinking they have missed out on an apartment there isn't much you're missing in my view.
I just really think you should be able to see out of the window even if it was just the same view for all the apartments in that area and would of made it a lot nicer, I'm going to keep the apartment seeing as i have paid 500k gil but just need to furnish it now.
There is a lot of dailies content and a well leveled account can insure that you are always doing the things you prefer to do rather than all the things, often content you simply have no desire to participate in.
I heard the expansion its a lot more open, but I wasn't going to level in a massively linear world for hours and hours to get to the good part.
Also, at least in WoW Legion...there is a ton more to do than I saw was available in FFXIV. Again, maybe the FFXIV expansion fixes that and offers a ton of variety of stuff. I wasn't going to find out though since the initial experience was so bad. But, if you are looking for a themepark MMO...WoW and GW2 are vastly better. Even EQ2 is amazing as well (AND has more content than WoW), except the graphics didn't age nearly as good as WoW, though a minor thing for me personally.
Also, another massive issue has. Is FFXIV is filled with load screens all over the place. In a single city you can run into multiple load screens. WoW you can fly anywhere with no load screens, except to get across kalimdor/eastern kingdoms and expansion areas. However WoW still has a vastly more open world.
EQ2 also has load screens, not nearly as bad as FFXIV. And I believe they recently removed load screens in the two major cities (I know Qeynos definitely at least).
You can very easily tell FFXIV was made for consoles first, and PCs a complete afterthought. From the tiny extremely linear zones, to load screens in the cities themselves...its like the game came from 1999. But even then, Asheron's Call was made around 1999 and it had very little load screens (only to get to dungeons, and teleport places)...however the entire surface world in AC was completely open with no load screens at all.
An MMO in 1999, with no load screens must have been 20 years ahead compared to FFXIV and the multiple load screens and tiny linear zones everywhere.
I highly recommend looking for another MMO. As FFXIV is a terrible MMO for PC, and would only really be good on consoles if you are really desperate to play an MMO and can't play one on a PC.
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And I agree, long expanses of nothingness is worse than just a small linear game world. AC had stuff all over the place though if I recall...I remember always finding monsters and dungeons and stuff. Maybe I remember wrong, its been a while. Or maybe its because houses (I actually joined before housing was even a thing in AC, but don't really remember much early on.) were everywhere, so it made it seem less empty.
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I struggle to see why there are so many players in this game. Yet the game does have it's good sides. The dungeon finder is pretty well coded. Lots of other games have extremly limited or buggy dungeon finders.
The dungeons themselves are also ok, the itemisation of the dungeons are a little weird, like pink items are barly better than white items, then green, and blue, etc. But the dungeons have decent items, except that the lvl 15-16-17 dungeon have the same gear in them. So many recent games have had no gear or like a few weapons only in the dungeons.
You have to wonder why all these small zone games but up these mountain walls around their zones, why not open them up like in Anarchy Online, where you can change zone anyplace, that would have made traveling a little easier, as the map and finding your way is one of the worst things about this game!
You can clearly see that the game was rushed at some point. There's for example voiced acting on parts of the main story quests, but then later in the same quest segment there is no voicing. But why haven't this been changed it's been 3 years since XIV was released, and they have millions of players.
How can it be so hard to just open the dungeons so you can find them in the dungeon finder and do them without having to do the main story?
Lvling up is pretty easy in the game, at lvl 20 you get 8k exp from a quest while a dungeon mob rewards you 500-1000 exp, so 10 mobs inside a dungeon equals a quest more or less. You can get half a lvl or more by doing a single dungeon run.