I think only WoW-style end-game players believe that a game can start at the end of the game. I've never personally had a friend in my many MMOs that thought that way, and if I didn't know that this end-game demographic existed, then I could never think it up to begin with.
I’m an end game classic WoW player. It really is a different mindset and it can impact your enjoyment of a game like FFXIV. I’ve played FFXIV twice leveling a white mage each time as I prefer to heal in mmo’s. The first time I quit during Heavensward. The second time during Stormblood. Both times I quit it came down to running dungeons for the MSQ or daily dungeon roulette. I felt obligated to know the mechanics of each boss before I attempted the dungeon. Leveling began to feel like a job, especially in the expansions when the dungeons became more mechanics heavy. To be successful, I needed to know the mechanics before running the dungeon. The sheer number of dungeons made it stressful to do the daily roulette. So I quit both times for the same reason. The problem isn’t the game, it’s my approach to the game. I’m an end game raider conditioned to stress over mechanics and failure. Makes it hard to just relax and simply enjoy the game. Edit: i know they’ve added a feature allowing you to run dungeons with NPC’s. Maybe due to stressed out players like me? I’m toying with the idea of returning, but I’m still undecided.
@@loftus4453 if you enjoyed the story and various elements that the game had to offer, then by all means go for it. The free trial now covers Heavensward and Stormblood, so you can give it another go without commitment :) There are only trials that require a party, and it's more than fine to go in blind! Every MSQ dungeon can now be done with NPC's
@loftus4453 I can imagine that can be annoying. I imagine this has already been said and won't change anything, but in ff14, especially if it'd your firdt time people don't expect you to be perfect firdt time - especially in dungeons The only 3 pieces of content in FF14 where people care abou you knowing beforehand is - current expansion extremes -curremt savage -Ultimate fight Dungeons, trials, raids and alliance raids are all heavily casual based. If you allow yourself to fail and learn from thst you'll be better then 90% of the players already lol
I've been playing XIV for almost three years, and I'm still discovering new things. I just finished leveling a WHM to 90, and that's the first time I've ever even thought of healing in an MMO (former 14-year WoW guy). Turns out, I love it. Who knew?😂 There is still so much left to experience. I've never done Bozja or Eureka. I still have several crafting jobs to do. I've never tried to buy a house, or tackled an Ultimate. The amount of content in this game is staggering.
I haven't played FF for several years but my only major issue with the MSQ system is that I as a new player I cannot jump into the game and play the new expansion. I HAVE to play through the entire MSQ which is not a small amount of time, and then I could join my friends in the final content. I think the option of playing through the MSQ beginning to end would be great. this might have changed since I last played but that was my big sticking point. I was I was burnt out by speed running the MSQ to get to current content.
Yes you can play this game solo BUT it’s best played with other players. There are always Sprouts clearing the beginning MSQ ARR through Storm. (Which is free!) Most of the XIV player base is older but we all started out as casual until you get into gil making while crafting and savage clears. Only 1-3% of the player base do Ultimates.
Botany story is great early on, but alchemist's story later on tells you the backstory of F'lhaminn and the goobue from 1.0, and it always stuck with me
The intro of the video described me perfectly. I guess there's a lot of us hungering for the next great mmo. FF14 is okay, though. I've been enjoying it (thanks again). I'm currently level 52 in FF14 and completely agree with you about the writing. Is the leveling process slow and boring at times? Yes. But for anyone that appreciates the art of writing, enjoys reading, and has read a lot of books, they'll know your statement to be completely accurate when you said it has "a great deal of reading that rivals the American classics." Every aspect of the writing is so damn impressive when compared to any other mmo. Like, Square Enix actually hired a bunch of people with PhDs in English that take pride in writing, and it really shows.
I’ve played quite a few MMO’s since starting with EverQuest in 2000 and I am a huge Final Fantasy fan since before that. FF XIV is one of the most enjoyable experiences since EQ, but still me and 3 friends quit playing it after a couple of months. We played casually together and the reason we quit basically came down to the mandatory mainline quest. It was just too boring/easy with the 4 of us as we wanted to do group content “only”. Unfortunately that is not really possible in this game. And no, we we’re not going to spend 4x 20-ish Euro to pay-to-complete
Two more points I feel should have a mention here: though MSQ is solo'able with NPC support, this a good thing, especially if you play a dps job at times when your server isnt as highly populated - or as a dps job in general... Also, on your journey you get invited by many oportunities to team up with other players, be it Blue Mage (gathering all skills, joining raids as a pure BLU group is THE MMO experiance), not to mention Eureka and Bozjah, Deep Dungeon on a smaller scale and Hunts. The second point: its actually a GOOD thing there is content drought ahead of us. You have six months from now to "catch up" with the story and experiance a whole new expansion with everybody else. And from personal experiance: it really is something :D Besides, there will be seasonal events waiting, too (like the Moogle event right now), so a new player will have even more leasure to explore instead of "just focussing MSQ": burn-out from MSQ is sadly a real thing.
So dsoe old content scale up like in The Elderscrolls Online or is it more like in WoW where the old content is useless when you get to max lvl and you only get your gear from the latest expansion?
Sort of. World content does not scale, but world content is almost entirely irrelevant. Raids, Trials, Dungeons-these can scale however you’d like them to. If you want to tackle an Ultimate from two expansions and twenty levels ago, then you absolutely can do that, allowing you to experience that content in a meaningful way despite its age.
The best potential in any MMO that was too ambitious too early...its the most fun I have ever had in any MMO ever. Too bad they tried to copy 40 man raids too early. Half the time we couldn't fill our roster more than a few times.
Its important to add the disclaimer that FFXIV is no longer an MMO, its a single player game you can optionally do some co op stuff in. Its not even really an RPG anymore, just a visual novel which has caused millions to leave this year, though there is clearly a market for no-gameplay story only "games"
Great video!! I just started playing final fantasy online on pc. I’m having fun but I wonder if it’s the right game to play because my time is very limited and sinking all those hours in when I could be playing other games. I’m just curious if it’s really worth the journey or should I play something else. Also I’m curious if the paid subscription adds more fun to the game
Yes, try the free trial first, and only buy the complete edition when Dawntrail expansion's preorder is out. Considering PS2 era FFXI still got updates in 2024. Safe to say you can enjoy your characters for a long long time with FFXIV. They are going to update the graphic in 7.0 which will be out in a few months. And I doubt they are making a new online one currently. It's kind of the best time to play, The main story arc just finished in 6.0 then on to a new adventure. In a sense you can go in, play from start till the conclusion of everything in one go. No need to wait in between expansions. And it can be concluded as a standard JRPG with an ending. In 6.57 I'm still doing some of the content made in 2013. Doing ARR relic. Just finished buying all Monster Hunter Collab Mount and Augmented gear. Eureka still in my first island. Need 40 more delubrum for all ShB Relics. There are a lot of things you can do without pressuring you to do those things. I like photography, and I can have fun photo session in the game. Free props, sets, locations, models, poses. Though outside from the graphics updates they are doing, I'd like for them to improve the lighting and shadow casted by and on the character more in the upcoming 7.0.
I love your videos. I have been trying to find an mmo to commit to, just finished the WoW story and I am about half way through endwalker with about 400hrs in on ffxiv, trying to play them side by side as i figure out where i want to commit. I think in almost every way I love ffxiv more...... however the biggest caveat is I really like the idea of being a healer, and when it comes to healing WoW just feels way more fun. Which, like I said, makes me really sad because I love ffxiv and the people there, but after healing a dungeon in WoW and then healing a dungeon in ffxiv it feels like night and day. And I will be honest, im not a great healer or good at videogames in general lmao, but even though every once in a while i have a fun time healing in ffxiv, watching a bunch of content about good healers, just knowing my goal as a healer should be to heal as little as possible makes me sad to think about. I wish healing just felt more fun....
I'm a new player. I'm level 50. Here are my thoughts so far. The gameplay is decent, the graphics are decent (with a heavy ReShade help, but still), the story is decent. Everything is decent. Not great, not exciting, not bad, not awful - just... decent. It's really hard to tell if I'm gonna love it some day or I'm just wasting my time fooling myself.
We have a saying in the FFXIV fandom: if you can get through the slog that is A Realm Reborn you’ll be extremely rewarded. Everything from Heavensward to Dawntrail is incredible. Shadowbringers and Endwalker have been the fandom’s favorite expansions. Just stick with it. It *does* get better.
the game needs to steal mythic+ dungeons... their criterian/variant dungeon system sucks, i quit after beating ARR , so much dam boring ass reading, not enough voice acting... so boring
One thing not mentioned that was the deal-maker for me is the people, the other players! When you're new and still going through the story for the first time, you are marked as a sprout. FFXIV vets LOVE sprouts. Veterans and more experienced sprouts want to guide you and teach you and help you. In XIV, even the dungeons have stories and cutscenes which sounds like a disaster in the making, but XIV players are patient and kind. They *WAIT* for you to finish your cutscene, make sure you're ready, then pull the boss. You don't get belittled for poor performance, you are instead encouraged to try again, offered assistance if you need mechanics explained. It's... So beautiful. XIV loves it's players, the players love XIV, and the players love eachother. (esp in Limsa, lul). No other MMO has had that general vibe of warmth. So if you're looking for a low friction MMO with just the nicest warmest people, this is the one.
i think you'd like genshin, it wouldn't really be as engaging as lost ark after the initial rush but it really is story driven. it's just not very good at delivering it (gets better along the way but it's similar to elden ring in its exposition, many important details are scattered around in the game)
The areas are really dead now. Just 1-2 years ago the starting area towns were tiiming with life in Odin. Now its a ghost game. Played 3 days with a new character and saw 1 other player.
I like your enthusiasm buy why lie to newcomers? Endwalker is generally accepted as the worst expansion, gives no reason to log in and the game is empty right now.
Endwalker the worst expansion? Generally accepted?? At worst its considered 3rd best outside of HW and ShB . I've heard people argue EW is better then HW though
"Should I continue to shamelessly broadcast my bedroom fantasies on the internet to distract others from my inability to form meaningful relationships or develop my maturity?" What you should do is stop making gaming into some kind of fucked up social media atmosphere and avoid conflating your personality with gaming. Separate the two. The old ways were better. I feel sorry for you kids who have to live in this fucked up technocracy where everyone must have the copy & paste NPC personality like robots or either be exiled by a mob with no purpose in this world. I choose exile.
I started this when heavensword c as me out. Was ok, got toward end of story, but they changed drk to a tank, sch to a fairy, and no blue mage. I grew up on ffxi, sch dot, and skill chaining, blue monster spell farming, and able to play strange combos to overcome notorious monsters. I did like mining and crafting though, though not profitable in ffxiv. So left. Got a steam deck. Started a new two weeks ago. Its ok for main story, but i dont think it should sosk up your time vs playing offline games. Nor will it be as good as ffxi jobs. Limited blue......
@@sagepirotess6312 There should be a blue quest marker somewhere in Southern La Noscea, I think? It should be along the coastline by the Moraby Drydocks, if I remember correctly.
I'm a new player and have started playing the free trial about a month or so ago. it's pretty fun. I had to let go of the notion that i'd be playing an MMO, otherwise I couldn't get through the first 20 levels of the game. It feels like a lack luster single player jRPG at first, but eventually the story and gameplay picks up and it's overall worth it. You jsut have to be in the right mindset and eventually the MMO part kicks in when you start doing the dungeons that require groups to play. I've been playing MMOs for over 20 years now since I was a kid. So I'm used to the days when MMO's mostly co-op. Now days they're single player games with a chat room. I've been waiting 10 years for a MMO that felt like an MMO. That MMO is never going to happen, so I just went ahead and started playing this once I heard how similar to Second life it is. I will say though. After watching over 50+ tip and guide videos and playing the game itself, a lot of veteran players either don't know or straight up forgot what it's like being a new free trial player. I keep getting whispers from people and I can't whisper back. 90% of the advice i get on youtube and reddit involves stuff i can't do because of the free trial limits, like Retainers. No idea what thats like because it's restricted. "just get it on the Marketboard" is terrible advice fore new free trial players because we can't use it. We can't send or be sent stuff either. A player tried to give me a minion, but couldn't. I do like the free trial though. Being able to play without paying anything is nice. I just dread having to pay monthly for the game though. It's weird going from free to play to suddenly monthly payments for basically the same content with some extra stuff. And then losing access to the whole game once you stop paying monthly.. It's strange, but back in the day when it was normal to pay monthly for game, it felt fine. But now days with the market so saturated, I have to wonder, is it really worth spending so much money on one game when I can play hundreds of other games for free or for a one time payment? I almost. Almost...wish wish FF14 had a Freemium model where if I stopped paying, i can still play, but just revert back to free trial status. Then i'd start paying monthly right away, knowing I can stop but still play any time i want. But right now, if I pay, i'd have to keep it up just to have access. I'd even be willing to do a lieftime sub. Overall though, i'd say the game is decent. Even as a free trial user. The worst limit in the free trial is probably the extremely low 300,000 gil cap. It honestly makes no sense. We can't sell or buy from other players. We literally have zero impact on the player economy. So it should be at least 1 or even 5 million.
The key take-away - especially for those used to the WoW approach - is that the game starts at level 1. Take your time, enjoy the journey.
I think only WoW-style end-game players believe that a game can start at the end of the game. I've never personally had a friend in my many MMOs that thought that way, and if I didn't know that this end-game demographic existed, then I could never think it up to begin with.
I’m an end game classic WoW player. It really is a different mindset and it can impact your enjoyment of a game like FFXIV. I’ve played FFXIV twice leveling a white mage each time as I prefer to heal in mmo’s. The first time I quit during Heavensward. The second time during Stormblood. Both times I quit it came down to running dungeons for the MSQ or daily dungeon roulette. I felt obligated to know the mechanics of each boss before I attempted the dungeon. Leveling began to feel like a job, especially in the expansions when the dungeons became more mechanics heavy. To be successful, I needed to know the mechanics before running the dungeon. The sheer number of dungeons made it stressful to do the daily roulette. So I quit both times for the same reason.
The problem isn’t the game, it’s my approach to the game. I’m an end game raider conditioned to stress over mechanics and failure. Makes it hard to just relax and simply enjoy the game.
Edit: i know they’ve added a feature allowing you to run dungeons with NPC’s. Maybe due to stressed out players like me? I’m toying with the idea of returning, but I’m still undecided.
@@loftus4453 if you enjoyed the story and various elements that the game had to offer, then by all means go for it. The free trial now covers Heavensward and Stormblood, so you can give it another go without commitment :)
There are only trials that require a party, and it's more than fine to go in blind! Every MSQ dungeon can now be done with NPC's
@loftus4453 I can imagine that can be annoying.
I imagine this has already been said and won't change anything, but in ff14, especially if it'd your firdt time people don't expect you to be perfect firdt time - especially in dungeons
The only 3 pieces of content in FF14 where people care abou you knowing beforehand is
- current expansion extremes
-curremt savage
-Ultimate fight
Dungeons, trials, raids and alliance raids are all heavily casual based.
If you allow yourself to fail and learn from thst you'll be better then 90% of the players already lol
I've been playing XIV for almost three years, and I'm still discovering new things. I just finished leveling a WHM to 90, and that's the first time I've ever even thought of healing in an MMO (former 14-year WoW guy). Turns out, I love it. Who knew?😂
There is still so much left to experience. I've never done Bozja or Eureka. I still have several crafting jobs to do. I've never tried to buy a house, or tackled an Ultimate. The amount of content in this game is staggering.
Try Eureka and Bozja, it’s FFXIV at its best.
I haven't played FF for several years but my only major issue with the MSQ system is that I as a new player I cannot jump into the game and play the new expansion. I HAVE to play through the entire MSQ which is not a small amount of time, and then I could join my friends in the final content. I think the option of playing through the MSQ beginning to end would be great. this might have changed since I last played but that was my big sticking point. I was I was burnt out by speed running the MSQ to get to current content.
Yes you can play this game solo BUT it’s best played with other players. There are always Sprouts clearing the beginning MSQ ARR through Storm. (Which is free!) Most of the XIV player base is older but we all started out as casual until you get into gil making while crafting and savage clears. Only 1-3% of the player base do Ultimates.
Botany story is great early on, but alchemist's story later on tells you the backstory of F'lhaminn and the goobue from 1.0, and it always stuck with me
Still working through that one.
The intro of the video described me perfectly. I guess there's a lot of us hungering for the next great mmo. FF14 is okay, though. I've been enjoying it (thanks again). I'm currently level 52 in FF14 and completely agree with you about the writing. Is the leveling process slow and boring at times? Yes. But for anyone that appreciates the art of writing, enjoys reading, and has read a lot of books, they'll know your statement to be completely accurate when you said it has "a great deal of reading that rivals the American classics." Every aspect of the writing is so damn impressive when compared to any other mmo. Like, Square Enix actually hired a bunch of people with PhDs in English that take pride in writing, and it really shows.
Hemingway’s been real quiet ever since Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker dropped.
Why are you doing TH-cam videos instead of stand-up comedy? lol@@embersarcade
Here after the Stoopzz reaction. I have to say your FF14 fashion sense is impeccable and I don't even play the game.
I’ve played quite a few MMO’s since starting with EverQuest in 2000 and I am a huge Final Fantasy fan since before that. FF XIV is one of the most enjoyable experiences since EQ, but still me and 3 friends quit playing it after a couple of months. We played casually together and the reason we quit basically came down to the mandatory mainline quest. It was just too boring/easy with the 4 of us as we wanted to do group content “only”. Unfortunately that is not really possible in this game. And no, we we’re not going to spend 4x 20-ish Euro to pay-to-complete
The content your looking for would be in Raids, Savage raids etc.
But these sre unlocked St the end of the MSQ and the later expansions
Two more points I feel should have a mention here: though MSQ is solo'able with NPC support, this a good thing, especially if you play a dps job at times when your server isnt as highly populated - or as a dps job in general... Also, on your journey you get invited by many oportunities to team up with other players, be it Blue Mage (gathering all skills, joining raids as a pure BLU group is THE MMO experiance), not to mention Eureka and Bozjah, Deep Dungeon on a smaller scale and Hunts.
The second point: its actually a GOOD thing there is content drought ahead of us. You have six months from now to "catch up" with the story and experiance a whole new expansion with everybody else. And from personal experiance: it really is something :D Besides, there will be seasonal events waiting, too (like the Moogle event right now), so a new player will have even more leasure to explore instead of "just focussing MSQ": burn-out from MSQ is sadly a real thing.
your editing is so good really elevates these videos to be even better.
So dsoe old content scale up like in The Elderscrolls Online or is it more like in WoW where the old content is useless when you get to max lvl and you only get your gear from the latest expansion?
Sort of. World content does not scale, but world content is almost entirely irrelevant. Raids, Trials, Dungeons-these can scale however you’d like them to.
If you want to tackle an Ultimate from two expansions and twenty levels ago, then you absolutely can do that, allowing you to experience that content in a meaningful way despite its age.
@@embersarcade Ahh ok I see! So there are some scaling of old content! Thanks for your reply! :)
man, why'd you have to hit me with the wildstar logo. too soon :(
Please forgive me.
The best potential in any MMO that was too ambitious too early...its the most fun I have ever had in any MMO ever. Too bad they tried to copy 40 man raids too early. Half the time we couldn't fill our roster more than a few times.
Its important to add the disclaimer that FFXIV is no longer an MMO, its a single player game you can optionally do some co op stuff in. Its not even really an RPG anymore, just a visual novel which has caused millions to leave this year, though there is clearly a market for no-gameplay story only "games"
I wholeheartedly agree.
This is THE should you play video that im gonna show my friends. Great job Ember!
Great video!! I just started playing final fantasy online on pc. I’m having fun but I wonder if it’s the right game to play because my time is very limited and sinking all those hours in when I could be playing other games. I’m just curious if it’s really worth the journey or should I play something else. Also I’m curious if the paid subscription adds more fun to the game
By the time you finish the free trial, which is the conclusion to Stormblood, then you’ll know if you’ll want to purchase the game and subscribe.
another great video ember!
I wasn't expecting this video to slap, but it slaps. I'm showing some friends cause they are hesitant.
Yes, try the free trial first, and only buy the complete edition when Dawntrail expansion's preorder is out.
Considering PS2 era FFXI still got updates in 2024. Safe to say you can enjoy your characters for a long long time with FFXIV. They are going to update the graphic in 7.0 which will be out in a few months. And I doubt they are making a new online one currently.
It's kind of the best time to play, The main story arc just finished in 6.0 then on to a new adventure. In a sense you can go in, play from start till the conclusion of everything in one go. No need to wait in between expansions. And it can be concluded as a standard JRPG with an ending.
In 6.57 I'm still doing some of the content made in 2013. Doing ARR relic. Just finished buying all Monster Hunter Collab Mount and Augmented gear. Eureka still in my first island. Need 40 more delubrum for all ShB Relics.
There are a lot of things you can do without pressuring you to do those things. I like photography, and I can have fun photo session in the game. Free props, sets, locations, models, poses. Though outside from the graphics updates they are doing, I'd like for them to improve the lighting and shadow casted by and on the character more in the upcoming 7.0.
Great, well thought out video. Well done!
This was a really good video! I'm on my third playthrough of the story myself.
_Whoa._
I love your videos. I have been trying to find an mmo to commit to, just finished the WoW story and I am about half way through endwalker with about 400hrs in on ffxiv, trying to play them side by side as i figure out where i want to commit. I think in almost every way I love ffxiv more...... however the biggest caveat is I really like the idea of being a healer, and when it comes to healing WoW just feels way more fun. Which, like I said, makes me really sad because I love ffxiv and the people there, but after healing a dungeon in WoW and then healing a dungeon in ffxiv it feels like night and day. And I will be honest, im not a great healer or good at videogames in general lmao, but even though every once in a while i have a fun time healing in ffxiv, watching a bunch of content about good healers, just knowing my goal as a healer should be to heal as little as possible makes me sad to think about. I wish healing just felt more fun....
I'm a new player. I'm level 50. Here are my thoughts so far. The gameplay is decent, the graphics are decent (with a heavy ReShade help, but still), the story is decent. Everything is decent. Not great, not exciting, not bad, not awful - just... decent. It's really hard to tell if I'm gonna love it some day or I'm just wasting my time fooling myself.
Everything ahead of you is incredible. I hope you stick with it. I had no idea what was in store at level 50-it absolutely exceeded my expectations.
We have a saying in the FFXIV fandom: if you can get through the slog that is A Realm Reborn you’ll be extremely rewarded. Everything from Heavensward to Dawntrail is incredible. Shadowbringers and Endwalker have been the fandom’s favorite expansions. Just stick with it. It *does* get better.
the game needs to steal mythic+ dungeons... their criterian/variant dungeon system sucks, i quit after beating ARR , so much dam boring ass reading, not enough voice acting... so boring
One thing not mentioned that was the deal-maker for me is the people, the other players! When you're new and still going through the story for the first time, you are marked as a sprout. FFXIV vets LOVE sprouts. Veterans and more experienced sprouts want to guide you and teach you and help you. In XIV, even the dungeons have stories and cutscenes which sounds like a disaster in the making, but XIV players are patient and kind. They *WAIT* for you to finish your cutscene, make sure you're ready, then pull the boss. You don't get belittled for poor performance, you are instead encouraged to try again, offered assistance if you need mechanics explained. It's... So beautiful.
XIV loves it's players, the players love XIV, and the players love eachother. (esp in Limsa, lul).
No other MMO has had that general vibe of warmth.
So if you're looking for a low friction MMO with just the nicest warmest people, this is the one.
was waiting on this one great vid ember
Mage named Frieza 😂
He called me a monkey, can you believe it?
lmao@@embersarcade
soo ff14 is for genshin players. already downloaded and prepared to dive in after the poe gauntlet o7
Funny you mention Genshin, I have been heavily considering playing that game and sinking a few hundred hours into it for the sake of a video.
i think you'd like genshin, it wouldn't really be as engaging as lost ark after the initial rush but it really is story driven. it's just not very good at delivering it (gets better along the way but it's similar to elden ring in its exposition, many important details are scattered around in the game)
Oh, I’m an FFXIV player first, I love a story.
@@embersarcade Genshin Impact 4.2 recent expansion patch storyline is beyond amazing.
@@ashtravelerr.3895 I'll jump in and maybe make some content!
The areas are really dead now. Just 1-2 years ago the starting area towns were tiiming with life in Odin. Now its a ghost game. Played 3 days with a new character and saw 1 other player.
Same, seems empty now and lifeless. Peaked at shadowbringers imo
I like your enthusiasm buy why lie to newcomers? Endwalker is generally accepted as the worst expansion, gives no reason to log in and the game is empty right now.
That just isn’t true. The game is packed every time that I log into it and there is a ton of content to catch up on for new players.
Endwalker the worst expansion?
Generally accepted??
At worst its considered 3rd best outside of HW and ShB .
I've heard people argue EW is better then HW though
"Should I continue to shamelessly broadcast my bedroom fantasies on the internet to distract others from my inability to form meaningful relationships or develop my maturity?"
What you should do is stop making gaming into some kind of fucked up social media atmosphere and avoid conflating your personality with gaming. Separate the two. The old ways were better. I feel sorry for you kids who have to live in this fucked up technocracy where everyone must have the copy & paste NPC personality like robots or either be exiled by a mob with no purpose in this world. I choose exile.
I started this when heavensword c as me out. Was ok, got toward end of story, but they changed drk to a tank, sch to a fairy, and no blue mage.
I grew up on ffxi, sch dot, and skill chaining, blue monster spell farming, and able to play strange combos to overcome notorious monsters. I did like mining and crafting though, though not profitable in ffxiv.
So left. Got a steam deck. Started a new two weeks ago. Its ok for main story, but i dont think it should sosk up your time vs playing offline games. Nor will it be as good as ffxi jobs. Limited blue......
Don’t underestimate Blue, I recently started playing with it and it’s a lot of fun.
@@embersarcade not sure even where to unlock it... probably after heavensword... lol
@@sagepirotess6312 There should be a blue quest marker somewhere in Southern La Noscea, I think? It should be along the coastline by the Moraby Drydocks, if I remember correctly.
No you shouldn't game is horrible with netcode from 1995.
I'm a new player and have started playing the free trial about a month or so ago. it's pretty fun. I had to let go of the notion that i'd be playing an MMO, otherwise I couldn't get through the first 20 levels of the game. It feels like a lack luster single player jRPG at first, but eventually the story and gameplay picks up and it's overall worth it. You jsut have to be in the right mindset and eventually the MMO part kicks in when you start doing the dungeons that require groups to play.
I've been playing MMOs for over 20 years now since I was a kid. So I'm used to the days when MMO's mostly co-op. Now days they're single player games with a chat room. I've been waiting 10 years for a MMO that felt like an MMO. That MMO is never going to happen, so I just went ahead and started playing this once I heard how similar to Second life it is.
I will say though. After watching over 50+ tip and guide videos and playing the game itself, a lot of veteran players either don't know or straight up forgot what it's like being a new free trial player. I keep getting whispers from people and I can't whisper back. 90% of the advice i get on youtube and reddit involves stuff i can't do because of the free trial limits, like Retainers. No idea what thats like because it's restricted. "just get it on the Marketboard" is terrible advice fore new free trial players because we can't use it. We can't send or be sent stuff either. A player tried to give me a minion, but couldn't.
I do like the free trial though. Being able to play without paying anything is nice. I just dread having to pay monthly for the game though. It's weird going from free to play to suddenly monthly payments for basically the same content with some extra stuff. And then losing access to the whole game once you stop paying monthly.. It's strange, but back in the day when it was normal to pay monthly for game, it felt fine. But now days with the market so saturated, I have to wonder, is it really worth spending so much money on one game when I can play hundreds of other games for free or for a one time payment? I almost. Almost...wish wish FF14 had a Freemium model where if I stopped paying, i can still play, but just revert back to free trial status. Then i'd start paying monthly right away, knowing I can stop but still play any time i want. But right now, if I pay, i'd have to keep it up just to have access. I'd even be willing to do a lieftime sub.
Overall though, i'd say the game is decent. Even as a free trial user. The worst limit in the free trial is probably the extremely low 300,000 gil cap. It honestly makes no sense. We can't sell or buy from other players. We literally have zero impact on the player economy. So it should be at least 1 or even 5 million.
You wrote your paragraph like you never played WoW before.