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Your Friends Recommend Final Fantasy 14 Because We Love You | MMORPG.com
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The only thing that sucks about it is the end game community. It took all the worst neckbeards from WoW and gave them everything they wanted - ammunition to use against people who aren't at other's skill level.
Parses are the bane of all casual players, and FF14 is rampant with it.
My recommendation: Play the game for the story, and everything around the story ( including the story-difficulty trials ), but avoid Savage Raiding like the plague if you value keeping a high opinion of the FF14 community. I can't stress enough how bad it is - and people actually DEFEND the toxicity on the subreddit and forums. It's nuts to me.
What you are talking about is more in line with Square copying Blizzard's item level idea.It ALIENATES players and gaits content BOTH of which are terrible ideas.
The WORLD might be nice,better than most fo the rest but the GAME,nope and it is because characters/combat design is inferior to FFXI a game made 20 years ago.There is Yoshi standing there taking tons of credit and he can't figure out how to improve on a 20 year old game.
All that Yoshi dude is riding the coattails of success,well and pissing me off.I wanted so badly for 14 to be THE GAME i would play until i die.I was so disappointed i can't say it in words.Unless they get rid of Ilevels and OPEN up the community and game i will NEVER come back to the game.
You see even within FFXI end game was a serious problem and content gaited to end game communities.Who the hell wants to grind the same instances over and over to get the gear to advance to the next tier,NOT this guy.
Point being no matter what enjoyment you might get out of the game,the end result is painful and turns me off.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
GATED.
GATED.
tldr the upper arguments, parsing? dont know about that, you can casually do a lot of content, but the community is really bad about being antisocial . every server in every town, zone, its just no community, no dialogs, just no zone chats, even in cities. The only thing in ffxiv you see get advertised is people trying to sell runs.
if you want a better MMO, check out ESO, way better community and ecosystem which stops the gold sellers/ encourages guilds to do stuff together
I hear ya though, I take breaks from the game when I have less time to play due to the sub.
Most MMOs people are silent these days, though my server in FFXIV it gets pretty chatty in Lominsa in the evening. Plus we have the Jades as centerpiece. xD
Fishing on Gilgamesh since 2013
Fishing on Bronzebeard since 2005
Fishing in RL since 1992
Born with a fishing rod in my hand in 1979
Fishing on Gilgamesh since 2013
Fishing on Bronzebeard since 2005
Fishing in RL since 1992
Born with a fishing rod in my hand in 1979
I see nothing wrong with gated content, raids and the whole caboodle that goes with that. individuals and guilds vary but you just need to get with the right bunch of players and you will be fine. Of course if you are a "casual" raiding is not for you, though that rather depends what you mean by that word. If you come on for 15 minutes a day you can't expect to do raids.
This dichotomy of play styles, dedicated or casual causes as many problems as PvE or PvP and being a grouping or solo player. I find most casual players don't like to group, be in a guild, do anything difficult or for that matter communicate with any other players in a MMO. To me they are the bane of MMOs.
But that does not mean I think they should not be in the game, because I hold out the forlorn hope that maybe, just maybe they will realise there can be so much more to the game than what they are doing now. And I know from some guild members that's what happened to them, so sometimes they do!
So to me if you give casuals something else to do in end game like say dailies all that does is help keep them in their solo/casual bubble. However the leap needed to go raiding is a big one and they could do with some gentle first steps. You can have the likes of a "3 avatar raid" its not really a raid, just a short "mission" where you need to get three people and takes no more than an hour. They have this sort of thing in Lotro. The other end to this is encouraging interdependency in players say for crafting, housing, trading. Once players realise how usual other players are they can start thinking, wouldn't they be useful in a group?
mmorpg junkie since 1999
I'm not interested in making a new account.
I couldnt even make it past the tutorial it was so bad.
I also consider this to be a great game and I can compare it favorably to just about every other MMORPG out there because I've played the great majority of them at one time or another. I especially recommend it to anyone who is new to this kind of game because it does an awesome job of teaching them how to play their role in a party environment. Other games teach you how to play your character, but I know of no other game that teaches you how to do that within a party. So I say again, if you're looking for something to keep you entertained for a good long while then give the game a try. At worst you won't like it; at best you'll fall in love with it as I did.
I'm not a FF fan, and I enjoy it. I also gotta say, it has the best music score of any MMO.
Maybe they have a thing for potatoes in short skirts and this triggers them. To each their own I guess lol.