Joey Begs Garnt NOT to Play Final Fantasy XIV Online
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The best part about FFXIV is that it's a game that respects your time. It doesn't punish you for not playing, and you can leave for months and come back without missing a beat.
That said, I've played it for 8 years. 😀 Join us. 😀
These seems like a cult indoctrination
dangit larry dont entice them anymore (even tho i agree so keep doing it, yes I just contradicted myself)
Larry x Garnt collab when?
HI LARRY!
Completely disagree, there is tons of story moments that don’t go anywhere within their own expansion.
Here to see Connor saying, "I'll never play FFXIV"
put that up there with "I'm sure as shit not playing Final Fantasy" - Garrett 2021
@scotty110 someone needs to make a supercut of people saying ‘I will never play it’ then playing it a year later and loving it. Add Asmon and Preach to the list.
@@scotty110 Who is Garrett? The only Garrett I know is Garrett Palm from Smosh but I know you're not talking about him.
@@Disciplined_Fate the Garrett I'm talking about is from the channel Grinding Gear, he, along with his friend Kyle have been covering various Blizzard games through podcasts since 2010 and when the exodus from WoW to FFXIV was happening Kyle wanted to cover that on there gaming news segments which lead to the famous quote from Garrett, eventually he relented and it's been quite the journey
@scotty110 "cars in my fantasy games!?" Also Garrett from grinding gears
Joey proving the saying:
You either quit in ARR or become a walking advertisement to FF14
No kizzy lol you just be promoting it to all your homies
The classic line
Not really, I almost quit in ARR because it's terrible content, and I would say 14 is a good game, but it's not flawless and got many opporunities not improve.
I ended up doing both haha. My first try of the game was right before HW released, ARR dragged and a combo a few things (irl and ingame) made me stop playing a few months after.
Then I picked it up again in fall of 2020 when I finally got a good PC and haven't missed a day since lol.
I actually had a hell of a time in ARR, takin it slow and enjoying it for what it is, learning about the world, imagining where it could go, it was therapeutic
Joey: "Garnt plz dont get into a MMO game especially FFXIV."
Also Joey: *Gets into another gacha game again*
It's really like telling a person not to smoke the devil's lettuce and then setting up a line of coke.
Gacha's suck your money but MMO suck your time
I mean...our man Garnt spent a ton of money on waifus in gacha, lol.
I mean, with gacha, after a while you can just do daily logins and that's it.
@@Spartan-sz7km depends
Some are backwards. It’s the MMO that suck the money instead while the Gacha suck your time
FFXIV is unlike other MMOs in that it's an RPG and story first, MMO second. And that story is amazing - possibly my favourite of all time. It's worth playing for the story alone.
Its how people play fgo for the Story and not the gacha.
which is to say, Garnt and Joey would probably love it but keep Connor far away from that 😭
its bloody fantastic, even tho ew kinda left a small, bad taste
Tbh i loved playing through heavensward but as soon as i got to stormblood it felt so slow for almost the first half of the expansion
Unlike other mmmos....LOL no it isn't. TOR is like that, even more so with the later expansions. FFXIV is like a lot of other JRPGs out there. FFXI is story is actually a lot better.
ffxiv is one of the few games I've finished in years... and it's technically five games in one. I started playing last August, and finished Shadowbringers the day Endwalker released. EW is more than just a game to me now, it actually helped me cope with real life anxieties... particularly about losing my hubby. I often think I probably won't be able to go on without him, but I would probably play through EW again to hopefully find a way to cope with it, it's main theme is what makes life worth living when it seems like all hope is lost? It goes through all the philosophies that have been debated for the meaning of life. It also made me cry... a lot.
Aww, I'm so sorry for your loss. And yeah, I cried a lot too.
I hope your days are a lot better every day
I lost my ex a few years prior due to suicide and Endwalker really affected me.
This didn't age well from Garn't most recent tweet.
Joey seems like the person that easily gets addicted to something.
so does Garnt, which is probably why Joey is desperately trying to save him
@@Doctor4077 FF14 isn't WoW, there isn't anyting manditory to do, he can just play it like a single player game.
Both are gatcha gamers, so they’ve already seen the true face of addiction.
@@Kuroganemk2 mandatory and addictive are two seperate things
@@Kuroganemk2 but doesn't change the fact if you get addicted to it you will still play it for hours everyday
i used to play ff14 everyday for hours even some day from morning to night during HW and stormblood expansion
but ever since i got a job i only play ff14 for MSQs and Raids EX/savage/ultimate until now
it's true ff14 is one of those games that doesn't "force" you to play everyday for mandatory rewards like how many other online rpg games or especially f2p gacha games
but if you love a game you will still stick to the game for hours either way
I could watch garnt play ff14 everyday, man I'd be so fun watch him break down from the story and maybe get a video
Garnt _and_ Sydney. That would be an experience. Garnt pushing to get the next bit of MSQ done, while Sydney is just busy lewding people in Limsa.
@@Scarabswarm Both also busy simping for Y'shtola too, lmao.
Yeeeeeeeeees please, I need this!
I logged on Twitter for the first time in two months and the first thing I saw was a tweet from Garnt saying something about: "I like Final Fantasy XIV."
Joey must feel like a misguided parent about now.
Oh man, he's going to love Shadowbringers. (More than usual, I mean.)
So let me get this straight
Gatcha:ok
FF XIV: OH GOD NO
Look, gambling all your money for 2D PNGs that you know you'll never actually use in game and will forget about 5 minutes after they announce the next set of PNGs or playing a very well done rpg, one that specifically had an update to make it less of a grind early on where you don't have to spend anything outside of the base price and DLC to fully enjoy the experience?
Only a moron would choose the latter.
It makes sense for them. For content creators like them, their time is more valuable (to create content in general). With gacha games, you throw a few hundred to a few thousand dollars every so often, but you play only 1-2hrs a day, and you're done with your dopamine hit. With ffxiv, even if you spend less, you play more, and that hurts their bottom line more.
@@ROBOTPETER101FFXIV also has a subscription that costs more each month than most spend on gacha games. Gacha games trive on whales spending ridiculous amounts but then again FFXIV has a cash shop that has the same treatment by those addicted where every mount, glamour clothing, minion etc needs to be bought because if not then their collection is not complete. Oh, and FFXIV also has player housing that is extremely hard to get and you need to keep your supscription forever to not lose it. ^^
I like FFXIV but you can certainly nake that to be cynical as well
Y'shtola is going to ruin the poor boy
"Little Sun"
"Ah, ah ,ah, none of that sass, or ill take you across my knee"
As someone who recently just started FF14, Joey is in the right to save Garnt from it. It's addictive and all I'm doing is just gathering grinding/doing Hand and Land quest. IMO if Garnt gets into it he would get too addictive to it not cause the grind, but also because the story will suck him in. IT'S THAT GOOD and I'm not even at heavensward yet
EDIT: Also the community is too wholesome, literally had 1 person gave me high level/tier stuff and on valentine someone gave me chocolates... this community
Oh man, lemme tell you read the crystal tower raid,all of it. All that story pays back of so hard
@@kfk4441 that's what i heard
i had to quit it was consuming me. I logged 1600 hours in 3 months. good luck my friend.
Garnt would start uploading only once a year
@@clindsell6111 Now how much of that time was spent afk in Limsa?
Loving seeing this uploaded after Garnt QRTs his XIV tweet with "why do I feel like I just joined a cult"
Welcome to Eorzea Garnt
Because he totally did. But who wouldn't want to join a cult full of cat girls :)
The motto of this cult is "Have you heard the critically acclaimed..."
WOOOOOO
Welcome to the REAL waifu wars, Grant.
...I'm scared that he hasn't tweeted anything else after that 👀
@@JojoDigitalArtist Why tweet when you can play the game?
FFXIV is so damn good. It's a fantastic blend between MMO and JRPG. Gets better with every expansion and the best thing is that it respects your time. You can stop for a year and all the content will still be there and relevant.
A year later and the content is still relevant? Not exactly. I suppose in some ways, but mostly not. They do a far better job than other MMORPGs though. RuneScape is the only one I can think of that is potentially doing it better.
@@CottidaeSEA The only thing I dislike about FF is it's overly dick suck-y community. No, it def does not stay relevant long at all, like stated, probably best / far better then all other MMO's, but not forever, and not eve for too long. That's like if I said WoW's content is always relevant cause you can go farm transmog and mounts, sure, but its not "relevant"
I am sure people don't overpraise it on purpose, but it does annoy me quite a bit, we have a 9.5/10 game here, fucking amazing, so theres no need to lie / overstate it, let the game speak for tiself.
@@CottidaeSEA think he mostly meant that is not like WoW where old content get deleted out right.
@@ShojiKareza Sort of, but I'd honestly say WoW content is pretty much as relevant as FFXIV content. The thing that makes FFXIV stand out is the level sync and ilvl sync, which is there to make sure you can still have a challenge while doing the content. Though that can be removed, which most people do when actually farming for the stuff they want.
Besides that, they tend to reuse materials from previous expansion zones, which I think is nice, and reduces the amount of new items they need to add, and you don't make everything out of the same materials. However, even WoW does that to some extent.
That's kind of what Lucas Nicol wrote, the FFXIV community really exaggerate how good it is. It's a great game, I do have over 2000 hours played after all, but it's still exaggerated greatly.
@@KumaNicol Yeah, the only things that I'd consider relevant is MSQ content, and that's simply because it's forced.
Outside of that, they have level sync and ilvl sync, which ensures you can still challenge content at a level where it should be roughly equivalent to when it was first released. That's good and all, but doesn't make the content relevant.
Some people think that since you can farm tomestones in earlier dungeons through roulettes means that the content is relevant, but it's really not. That's just a way to make sure that new players don't have a miserable experience and can do the MSQ since you usually only level up one character.
Here I am, applauding Joey's Willpower while I play FFXIV and a daily streak that started in August last year.
hey man if you need a sponsor let me know ive been clean for about 3 months after logging 1600 hours in 3 months prior to that.
Just don't play another one. I log FFXIV and run roulettes. Then I log ESO and do crafting writs. Then I log Lost Ark to level :(
It took 2 years and moving halfway across the country for me to take a 3 month break from FFXIV. I came back 2 months Endwalker was supposed to release so I could prepare for the new expansion. (Levelling up jobs, cleaning my inventories, making money)
I started last month and I can't stop.
meanwhile ... me no wind power at all ... Total Play Time: 539 days, 12 hours, 38 minutes
I feel sorry and jealous at the same time when I hear someone never played FFXIV because they have the chance to experience one of the best written story ever to be put on videogame for the first time.
Its mid, far from ones of best.
@@glimoreganajai2206you just haven’t played it
Where are now? FFXIV liking Garnts' tweet that he likes FFXIV, and Joey being as disappointed as when your kid says he's quitting law school to pursue his dream of being an artist.
To answer Joey's question about server congestion, it's not just the story. We got a TON of new players before the expansion due to the Wowfugees.... pair that with people coming back for the EW expansion (there was a long content drought) and you've got a ton of new players + returning players all logging in to play. I've never seen so many people play before (been playing since 2.0) lol it's insane.
Edit: also wanted to add EW was such a big deal because it wrapped up the 8 year story arc. But like most people have mentioned, it's easy to come back to if you stop playing for awhile!
This aged well. I literally woke up to FFXIV liking Garnt's tweet
The thing about FFXIV is that it's a fully fledged Final Fantasy game. While most MMOs are all about the gameplay loop and keeping you playing as long as possible, FFXIV has a classic FF narrative (in fact, possibly the best one in the franchise) that keeps you interested and immersed while also providing a great gameplay loop. This means that people searching for an MMO experience will still find that, while people more interested in the RPG aspect of things can engage with the game in an almost singleplayer way, enriched by an actual living and populated game world.
If you have the time to invest into it, there's an insane amount of side content to play through - but if you can't dedicate too much time you can simply play it as you would a normal game and never worry about missing stuff. All content is always relevant and you never feel in a rush to experience the game
Joey : doesn't play games because he gets addicted
Connor : plays games on stream to make his addictions, work
I started playing in December as a Free Trial player then Endwalker dropped and sales closed. After it re-opened immediately purchased it. Phenomenal game and the Free Trial has like months of content if you want to try
Up until Endwalker, a friend of mine was on the free trial for literally 2 years, and he still had things left to do.
Joey is definitely disappointed now…
14 is a great comfort game. Literally got me through my first semester of college. Also the game made me cry more than anything else has in my life up to this point. As a game to sit down and enjoy some content every now and then its good, as long as you can put the story down while you're progressing it if you have responsibilities. I get easily tired out by games so its easy for me to do. FF14 is a game about the journey, less so about the end game, which is something very important to keep in mind I think. Most MMOs you rush leveling to reach cap and do raiding, whereas FF14 takes you on an amazing journey that starts out meh, and slowly evolves and builds into one of the most satisfying experiences I've ever had. I really don't think there's anything else like it. Oh yeah, also cat girls.
Oh yeah, its a bit embarrassing to say, cause I know people get cynical about MMOs, but this game has had such a large impact on me. Gave me happiness in dark times, gave me more inspiration to make my own games. Maybe I'm just overly sentimental, lol
@@BlazeLibra nahh, don't feel any embarassment. Never apologize for liking what you like. Its a great mmo and a fun experience. I'm only partway in HW but I can see that I'm in it for the long run :)
Guys, you know what we have to do. We have to make Joey play FFXIV.
Impossible, we're more likely to get him to watch anime first.
The obvious solution
@@Floraclaw No, no, no. He needs to watch "Arcane" first...
Meanwhile Connor just dive in this game straight 15 hour stream of this game.
Connor just started FFXIV Online
I understand where Joey is coming from but FFXIV is designed to be put down, you can just play the story and unsub until the next expansion and not be punished or feel like you've missed anything, unlike most gacha games.
Honestly even with Gacha I feel like the feeling of missing out is overstated. Sure you miss out on some banners and welfare but you can keep your time and sanity for the fun story chapters. Young people shouldnt play gacha or MMO games though.
Not if you want the best gear, do raids ect.
@@mariosmatzoros3553 but what if you dont what the best gear?
@@gusbart5856 you can just ignore it. Best example I can give is when I was waiting for endwalker to come out and had just finished all of shadowbringers dlc I just stopped and played other stuff. When I came back the MSQ gives you gear which helps with clearing MSQ.
I guess the main point I'm making is you can look at Ffxiv as a single player story with some coop elements if you want to and not get too addicted to its other mmo features
There's an appreciable level of irony on display watching 3 men discuss the dangers of obsession while surrounded by a shrine to a particular medium they've structured both their personal and professional lives around. If one can prevent anime/manga from interfering with their responsibilities, one aught to be able to prevent a game.
As a FFXIV-Player that LOVES the game.
Balance is the key.
I still go to gym, cooking, cleaning and AFTER all my tasks i log in.
But yes, MMOs or Games in general will keep you from stuff.
Like drawing...
...crafting with wood or resin...
Stitching....
...but on the other hand, i can do things with friends after work - because after 8+ hours of work+ Household+ daily tasks like gym- you simply do not have the time anymore to drive somewhere.
So its nice to talk and do things together online- no driving, no stress... :)
The problem with FFXIV is that it doesn’t stop improving. A toxic relationship that continues to treat you better and better
It's not even really a toxic relationship.
It's a really good relationship where you have to resist spending the entire day just spending time with them because you love them so much, and in the end you get a divorce, not because you don't love them but to focus on your career.
In the sense you are the toxic person in the relationship abusing FF14 (and its devs) for their kindness/improvement. We don't deserved them.
The devs encourage you to take breaks from the game. I don't think its toxic at all
@@powerfulech0356 I guess the toxic part is that they can’t forbit u from ruining ure social life by not stopping playing lmao
no. i feel like finding perfect boyfriend after leaving toxic relationship that is gacha
Coming back from Connor's FF14 stream btw (TH-cam recommended me this). Just wanted to mention Gacha games are 1000% way worse for your life than MMOs imo, especially if we're talking about FF14 specifically.
P.S. Connor said he would never play FF14, look at him now! XD
Joey : “ I need to be a functioning member of society”
That says a lot about society
FFXIV is a totally different game compared to when it launched, so I encourage anyone who only tried it in the early years to give it another look. FFXIV is at least one of the MMOs that does not actually engage in many FOMO mechanics like daily chores to the extent that it happens in games like WoW. It's entirely possible to get tons out of the game just playing through the MSQ (main story) and Class/Job quests alone without ever really getting into the MMO aspects. It plays just like a regular FF game, just with an MMO end game.
I disagree. There are FOMO mechanics. Maybe not as bad as in other MMOs but they exist regardless.
@@Noel_Tamura That's why I said they don't engage in *AS MANY* FOMO mechanics, not none.
Joey warned Garnt not to play
Conner: That wasn't directed at me sooooo xD
0:05 Keep cheering! Joey can't yell over all of us!! xD Whoever that was, I love you
Missing out on ff14 is actually such a big L in life
On the other hand getting addicted to it (or any other game) will result into way bigger L's in life.
I’ve seen too many people become unemployed or drop out because of addiction on this game. I don’t think not playing it is “such a big L in life”
@@jeremy6491 ironically the director is literally telling people to unsubscribe and take breaks.
Meanwhile everything else like PSO2 do whatever they could to make sure you never leave their game and login NOW or you'll regret it.
or a big W depending on how you look at life.
I think I took a W. I'm already a bum. Can't be a bum addicted to games. Cause that's how you stay a bum 🤣
I absolutely understand Joey here. As someone with a destructive habit of hyperfocusing, if i dive into something head on, everything else gets shut out for a few days.
Considering MMOs are a timesink, these few days become weeks and maybe months
_and thats why ya become a game designer so you have an excuse to "thoroughly study" this game_
3 years later, post Endwalker, best mistake I ever god damn made. If ya can find the willpower to pace yourself, you should try it out. And the devs are great people, which leads to a lot of game design that _isn't_ built to manipulate you into selling your soul for this game. Though the story certainly might sink its claws in you
I will say this, XIV becomes the ultimate comfort game once you catch up with a lot of the content. You can really burn through podcasts and let plays in the background while grinding out levels and side quests without skipping a beat.
If I'm not doing story content or dungeon runs, that's basically what I do. I look up podcasts and commentary channels and just listen for hours while leveling jobs or exploring the zones.
Garnt: it wasn't a massive explosion
Me: ah I see what you did there even if you probably don't
Given that Connor recently started FFXIV I would love to see this topic revisited...
Any anime fan honestly owes it to themselves to go through the Main Story Quests of FFXIV, not only is it one of the best RPG stories of all time, but it hits all those anime fan buttons.
nope i watched the whole story on youtube and it is absolute garbage. It's extremely generic and a complete waste of time
@@punani_slayer4209 it really is. Literally summarized as "click 3 shining points, go back to npc, go to this npc, go to this npc do an emote. The characters reactions are all stiff. Constantly nodding, rhe story is all over the place. Characters CONSTANTLY "sacrificing" themselves only to reappear alive later. So dumb
@@ImmortalDraylo exactly. People only like the story because they wasted so many hours of their lives on this stupid ass game. It's almost like stockholm syndrome lol
@@punani_slayer4209 nice bait
@@inekd We can argue about the premise but the execution? The quest design is pretty one dimensional most of the time, characters actually are pretty stiff (for credit, the game is pretty old so that may be excused [it still feels really video game-y] ) and the graphics are ok - sometimes good. The constant reading is also a thing that personally drives me nuts thinking about how I'm constantly in a pressured state due to the sub model. The story might be good but the game has a lot of flaws.
Man this is definitely a good year for RPGs I'm so hyped for ff16 and dragon quest 3 hd 2d remake
Ff16 and triangle strategy for me. Super excited
@Knee Ger Why not? Last year it was confirmed that the game is basically finished being made. So chances are it’ll be out in time for Christmas.
@Knee Ger I’d say ff16 could come either late this year or early next year though I’m more inclined to believe it’s coming next year.
I don't think that FFXIV is that addicitve, it is a really casual MMO you can play the story on your own speed and you can't really progress grind if you reach max Lvl. Garnt will probably will like it Connor proabably not.
I know tons of people that literally just play the story, there’s no reason to rush and worry about falling behind cause you really can’t fall behind
Connor would rage at all the story lol
This just makes me wanna play it
Stop. Don't do it. The story will break your heart. Save yourself from being invested in characters in the story and being worried of potential death flags
If you like MMO's but enjoy games with a great story then FFXIV is fantastic. The game's story starts a little slow but by the end of the first part you'll be hooked and ready to play the next expansion. The community are very understanding to Sprouts ( thing that new players are) and will often help out and give tips if needed and wont grill you if you've not tanked quite right or still leaning the moves/rotation.
@@JezzaWezza
I hate MMORPGs.
I love JRPGs.
I love FINAL FANTASY.
I love amazing Stories.
I love Videogames.
FINAL FANTASY XIV is the greatest Story and World ever told.
Not even hyperbole.
It also has amazing gameplay, the greatest development team in the World, best OST ever (fact), and the only worthwhile GAAS.
do it do it do it do it do it do it
“I tried to give a money company” made me laugh so much.
You guys should do a Trash Taste MMO stream.
I started playing FFXIV recently and finished ARR and most of the way through Heavensward and if you have the voices set to Japanese you'll be constantly recognizing them from all sorts of anime (early on lots of Fairy Tail va's) and whilst the english text doesn't like up with it the story is still amazing so far and it can be a bit of a grind mid ARR but its worth pushing through it.
I use to have that same type of feeling of being addicted when playing monster hunter world, I poured a ridiculous amount of hours into that and loved the series ever since. Similar with MH rise but not as heavy with world but I'm waiting till they announce more info on the sunbreak expansion there releasing this year.
I want Garnt to do a video on XIV. It’s absolutely my favourite game of all time!
FFXIV is a game that you can put down, that you can have a life around. It's just like a really good book though, where you keep saying "just one more chapter" at bedtime. If you can have the control to put a book down, you'll be okay. If not, then maybe not. I will say though, there is a TON of fun to be had, something for everyone, it's an amusement park. Watch Pint's FFXIV video and you'll get a pretty good start of game overview.
yeah, you sound like a person whos not an addictive MMO gamer.
The actual thing that would happen is you put down everything else in your schedule so that you can push for one more quest completion.
Getting ready for a report? I can do that on the train, have to go soon? ill just wash my face and have a sandwich/coffee on the go. have work in the morning? 4 hour sleep + red bull sounds like a good idea. gotta finish my weeklies tonight
@@MisakaMikotoLuv oh I have been that type of person. While playing WoW back in the day, I barely left my bedroom for a year and a half. Put way too many hours into Destiny and Destiny 2 as well, but managed to barely fit a life around them.
FFXIV though, sometimes I'll log in daily for a week, then take a 3 week break from it entirely, and then maybe hop on two evenings a week, simply to do the latest raid series, and the fashion report. And I love the story and characters of this game *way* more than I enjoyed any of the others. The addiction is different though, because the game is different. You are not punished for taking a break. There is no FOMO. No stuff that goes away or becomes irrelevant if you don't "diligently farm" for a month. So the game actually facilitates having a healthier balance.
Playing it for 7 years, was used to play it every single day but now only weekends, is super addictive and a good game
you guys should play together, and it will be another content that you guys can made too and community would welcome and love to hear you guys opinion when playing the game 😁
Garnt will appreciate the story and aesthetic of this quite a bit, I'm sure. I hope he posts gameplay of it sometime.
Trash Taste special inside the FFXIV , studio made inside player house and decorated in a Trash Taste fashion. Glamour contest , fan meet ups, late night party and more. Possibilities are endless :)
I mean honestly as someone that put off playing it for pretty much its entire life. And picking it up just before endwalker. Its 100% worth playing. Best mmo experience i have had by far.
this aged nicely
FFXIV is easily the best story in all of gaming... For me. Especially Heavensward, Shadowbringers and Endwalker expansions. So just for that, it's so worth it!
Not even hyperbole.
It is factually up there.
A REALM REBORN and STORMBLOOD too.
I wouldnt say in All gaming but in All mmorpgs
Yep, played through realm reborn with a brother and the days just flew by, its a dangerous thing
ffxiv is one of those games that has the best parts of what an mmo is like. I started from runescape and would play mock mmos that attempt at an mmo space but its more of a streamlined single player experience with limitations of actually experiencing an mmo. Wow always interested me but i know i couldnt get into it because that wasnt my kind of game and anything id hear from it was that it was more of a job more than a game. that is until xiv. Xiv shows me all the best visuals i expect from a final fantasy but with xiv there seems to be this combined player experience that is unlike any other game ive seen or played. Yea its mad addicting, they wrote and created a world that seems breathtaking while enticing you with a sense of adventure. the more you dive deep into the world the more you are taken into xiv giving players a more personal experience like that of a singleplayer game but within an mmo. the idea of getting friends together to do raids, hunt for items, and above all bring people together. it isnt perfect, no game is perfect. but if there is one thing xiv has over almost all the games ive seen is its story. ARR is the beginning but ive seen everyone say if you get past ARR you will pass everything and actually take in the world youre playing in. though im madly addicted im just happy people play the game in general because the game has that effect over people which is a marvel to look at. I'm not a hardcore gamer but having the comfort and choice of choosing casual content to harder content is a breath of fresh air and i dont feel like im behind from the high tier players that do that hard content. plus the community too is another bonus to the game as a whole. Though no group is without its toxic player base the majority of the players you come across are actually nice and not trying to piss you off all the time. Xiv is just one of those slowburn animes or shows that you have to put your own investment into to gain what its trying to present. youre rewarded with good story, fun fights, awesome equipment, and above all you are rewarded with a community that loves FF as much as you might do.
XIV had a fantastic story and music and that kept me going so long... but seriously, I sincerely do not understand how people stay entertained with it once they finish the main story quests. The endgame and gear bored me to tears, loot was so BLAND, I feel like I was always more excited for the cosmetics of gear than I ever was for the stats. Theres no buildcrafting or choices, everything is so standardized there was no room to inject personality into your role or character.
Regardless, feel like I personally enjoyed FFXIV more like a Single player experience, meaning just finishing the story bits, than I did as a MMO experience, but I still enjoyed it.
Plus that Free Trial is certainly top of the line for the genre, if anyone wants to dip their toes in its certainly worth it to try.
You choose your own 'endgame'. Whether it be fashion/glams, savage/ultimates raids, leveling you alt jobs and crafter/gatherer classes, housing, playing the marketboard, completionism with mounts/minions, RP, etc. There's a plethora of things that anyone can do and choose to do if they want to. If you're good after playing the MSQ and do not want to do savages and ultimates or even do RWFs, then you can always unsub and put the game down and just resub when the new patch releases (6.1 is packed with new content and changes). The devs encourage it. I personally play FFXIV along with WoW (before) and Lost Ark right now. I just log in weekly to get my savage raid reclears and cap my tomestones for my alt jobs BiS. It's not some endless grind like what majority of MMORPG players got used to with the gear treadmill and FOMO systems other games implement. If you're looking for that dopamine injection you get from 'cool loot' and not satisfied with grinding the savages for BiS, then there are other games out there that cater to that type of addiction.
Wait till Garnt finds out about Shadowbringers being a certain genre
Now I'm not saying that this episode was the one that made me finally break and play the game but... *over 1,000 hours later*
Hey, I am 41 and have been playing 14 for a couple of years now and it's a beautifully done game. Garnt, honestly, I would suggest starting it. I think you'd really enjoy it. Also... Triple Triad... that is all xD
Nobody tell Garnt that FFXIV has an isekai arc.
A year ago i watched this, i thought "this could never happen to me"
A year later im grinding for endwalker relics and trying to level all my classes to 80...
I did play it and it does take over your life. I do think about going back but I'm so far behind now it will take forever to catch up and I'm not entirely sure my ps4 has enough space for all the expansions. Miss my old guild mates though.
Can you manage your play time?
Get in
Can you not do that.... don't, you'll lose yourself to 500 hours of story content.
FFXIV is the first mmo I've ever played, it is now my most played on hours
This is funny comming back to now that Connors playing
Thank you Joey, you saved Grant from being addicted to a game with a great story and community. Now instead, he is addicted to gacha, he has spent thousands of dollars, argues with wife about game play time rather than play together which was the point of getting into 14, and he just can’t stop himself from getting more Waifus and playing in all his free time.
It’s fine. I play 14. I take breaks. Dad of 4 and a paramedic. Manage your time and you’ll be fine.
i recently started playing free trial - and the most memorable thing - is music, beatifull songs, what hitted me hardest were the primal ones, especially the Shiva, also the story, for examble the bloody banquet
Update: We have failed, expect yearly videos in Garnt's channel from now on
To be fair - while XIV does offer plenty of MMO style content you can lose yourself in if you want to, it's first and foremost a regular FF game. Tons of people just play through the story and then stop because that's a "complete" experience in ways that most other MMOs don't really have.
(Also, way less to none of the usual trappings of "you HAVE to keep playing to be able to keep up"...like, no. You can just put it aside until the next expac and the game will provide you with everything you need for it at the start of the next expac.)
Here from 2024. All 3 boys have now played FF14. The vote is out on whether everyone likes it though.
Being a responsible adult I spent two months binging the story of FFXIV, but now it´s a super chill game and I can just pop in and do whatever I feel like and there's so much variety of content I think it will be a long time before I get bored. :D
"I'm just gonna never do it"
8:14
He says
FFxiv is a RPG first and then a MMO.
It is totally viable to play the story, cancel the sub and come back when a new patch arrives.
You dont have a fear of missing out, no needed hardcore grind to experience the endgame and it values your time perfectly.
It can be played for 5 hours a day when you really want to complete it 100% or just a few hours a week to play your story and level a character.
FFxiv as it is now is a great and modern MMORPG that can be played by busy working people with family or a student with to much time.
Try it and take all the time you need.
The free trail goes up to level 60 and you experience the somewhat boring but good world intruduction part for free and the first expansion, where the game really starts to shine.
Greetings from the Praetorium :)
Joey be singing: "Where did I go wrong, I loooost a friend..."
I can’t wait to see the Garnt documentary video on FF14
Well...if you're streaming FFXIV, Garnt. You're solid. It will pay for itself in donations. People LOVE watching popular personalities play FFXIV. Otherwise...don't do it, ha ha.
It's reaaaally good. I'm an 30 year old boomer and it's like all my favorite FF game crammed into one.
the story is top tier, especially once you get into the expansions dont treat it like an mmo treat it like a very long ff game
It blew up more now because of twitch and the fact that ppl can acknowledge it for more than just being an anime mmorpg. The game literally makes you feel like a hero and not just calls you one. The themes and lessons are so heartwarming and close to real life that even if you play alone it's as if you embarked on an epic quest of your own.
Ohhh. This aged well since this was filmed earlier. And i just saw Garnts Tweet.
The nice thing about FF14 is that the respect your time. As a full-time worker and a father, I can sign on for maybe 4 hours out of a whole week and have plenty of fun and not feel pressured to play more
FFXIV was my first mmo that saved me during 2020. I highly recommend if you have the time to play it.
-You just have to give yourself restrictions on playtime.
Conner looking at his life as he clicks on more trees.
Some things never change.
@gigguk one of us, one of us!!
13 Sentinels is awesome, check it out. Play all the story missions you can before doing any combat.
Peak ffxiv addiction is changing the in game clock to Eorzea time and thinking it's the real time because the blinds are closed and you've been up for 2 days and you're delusional
Had this on my off screen while doing a raid.
As long as you can still go about your daily life, go to work etc, FFXIV is honestly a great game for you to become invested in, it has a great story and you can meet so many amazing people on it. As long as you don't own a house (When they have auto-demo on, you have to log in and walk in to the house once every 45 days to keep it) you can quit for months on end and come back and pick up exactly where you left off. I've been playing it for almost 9 years and all honesty it is a nice escape from reality sometimes :>
I dont know, you can play FF 14 and still be responsible adult and member of society.
A responsible Adult can manage their time, while also having fun.
If you afraid getting addicted, then there's something wrong with your ability to time management
Yeah honestly, I get it. I’ve heard of stories from even back then about FF11 and how addicted people would get. Like how they’d be constantly thinking about the game and how they’d boot it up immediately after work every day. Definitely be careful and set limits.
There was someone who picked up the Free Trial and progressed the story long enough to reach the Gold Saucer. They only started XIV because they wanted to play Mahjong, it's wild.
Also Ocean Fishing is fun.
Garnt should play and then make a video gushing about the game. :D i would love that. There's loads to talk about for ff14
I've played almost every mainline final fantasy game, and all i can say is that ffxiv the best final fantasy game out of all the final fantasy games
I spent decades thinking that FF6 was going to be the high bar for a FF storyline that would never get touched again. Shadowbringers got close, but Endwalker absolutely shattered it.
Ffxi is better