Why do you guys like this game more than WoW (assuming you do)? Just curious...thanx

Two things that made me want to play this game

1) I could play any class without making an ult.
2) Male Miqo'te.

Granted the first reason was enough for me to want to try the game. If Miqo'te was female only I would be happily rocking a Roegadyn right now. Sometimes I wish that was the case, but damnit I can't say no to Miqo'te lol.

I stay though because of the community. There's a couple assholes here and there, but nothing compared to WoW. I felt so alone in that game, whereas in FFXIV I'm constantly engaging with people even outside of my FC. That alone will probably keep me playing through the years.

I actually just started up my WoW account again, to see the changes and do the pre-expansion event stuff. It honestly feels... boring now. I mean, maybe that's just because I'm used to the current content so much (I've played since early vanilla until last year). The game just feels a little too detached for itself. This is actually a feeling that has lingered for a long time, even before I quit. By that, I mean that you really don't feel like the character you've created. It's generally never about you, the player, rather that it's about the world around you. You're merely an expendable/faceless and unidentified tool to drive the plot. Even during gameplay, it really feels like that.

The game is designed for moving your camera out as far as you can, which for most players means that your character (and majority of NPCs) is quite small to the terrain. It just adds to the thought that you feel insignificant (overly dramatic word to use here, but still fitting). This is something that all MMORPGs tend to encourage, which is fine, but it can have a negative implication depending on what else is going on.

With FFXIV, you're always the center of attention. You are part of the game world. Due to the class/job system, you become associated with your character you create and so results an attachment. Still, it's quite possible that I've just hit the mindset that I've retired my characters on WoW, and so playing as them just doesn't feel the same.

1. MUCH BETTER GRAPHICS compared to the "OMG WHY THE UPDATED GRAPHICS in WoW is much worse than the old ones" (well u can see all those massive QQ thread on WoW forums lol)

2. JRPG FF, what else?

3. Lorewise, FF is better than WoW's infamous "screw lore, lets just retcon it!"

4. In term of baddies, WoW's baddies is only capable of launching a surprise attack and after that, just waiting or AFK inside their HQ waiting for players to slaughter them, while in FF, baddies never stopped their heinous actions!

5. The all class in one toon system

6. Catgirls

7. A very detailed artworks ingame

World of Warcraft looks like a cellphone game.

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Originally Posted by Welsper59

I actually just started up my WoW account again, to see the changes and do the pre-expansion event stuff. It honestly feels... boring now. I mean, maybe that's just because I'm used to the current content so much (I've played since early vanilla until last year). The game just feels a little too detached for itself. This is actually a feeling that has lingered for a long time, even before I quit. By that, I mean that you really don't feel like the character you've created. It's generally never about you, the player, rather that it's about the world around you. You're merely an expendable/faceless and unidentified tool to drive the plot. Even during gameplay, it really feels like that.

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I totally agree, there is a vast difference in story telling and incorporating your character into the world.
Although the notion that you defeat Primae all by yourself is a little ludicrous to be honest, in WoW most of your deeds in the end aren't even done by your character. In lore VARIAN (King of the humans) actually retcon-killed the Dragon Onyxia instead of your hero.

Also I have to say the pre expansion quest chain was utterly disappointing.
Kill orcs, kill more orcs, kill EVEN MOAR ORCS... umm... kill big Orc.... go to Varian, grab (as a raider useless) epic and STFU and wait another month for more orcs.

This is pretty much how I felt and I have to admit that my current motivation to play is *0*. I never felt like that after a prepatch.

I played hardcore back in TBC and early WotLK doing most of the server firsts. Back then boss fights like Kael'thas, Vashj, and even Malchezaar pre-nerf were epic fights. Blizzard had to tune down the difficulty in the next expansions to cater most of the player base. The fights aren't challenging anymore unless you have a guild that runs heroics.

In ARR, the dungeons are very challenging. I enjoyed the steep difficulty curve after Brayflox. Primals and coil gave that epic feeling that was similar if not better than the TBC dungeons. I look forward to what SE has to offer in the next patches/expansion.

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Originally Posted by Slick

Why do you guys like this game more than WoW (assuming you do)? Just curious...thanx

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There are many things I like about this game more than Wow but I will touch on a major one that is not negotiable and effects all my other choices in a game. For me, Wow has never even been an option because of the graphics and character design. Those things make or break a game for me no matter how great the other content is so that has kept me from considering the other things that Wow may or may not have to offer me.

I love both but WoW feels very lifeless to me now, and like it's stuck in the stone age.
They gave me 7 days free game time so I logged on to check out their pre-expansion event.
It was literally just " go kill 10 ogre's"

I played WoW once years ago for about an hour... and frankly, it left me wondering exactly why that game had 9 million subscribers and was regarded as the pinnacle of MMO design. It bored me to tears. I didn't feel like there was an epic storyline grabbing me into the world, unlike FFXIV or even FFXI, which I admit, is the main reason I play RPGs, especially the FF series (I guess that's also the reason I prefer JRPGs to WRPGs - they usually have a greater emphasis on story instead of personal character building).

And that doesn't even mention the ugly graphics (FFXI's 13-year old PS2 graphics are light years better than WoW, and that's saying something!), the awful customer service from Blizzard, and the utterly terrible player community. This is not a 'drag WoW's name through the mud' rant though - I just feel FFXIV ARR is a far superior game in every way.

Or maybe I'm just biased, being a FF fangirl and all (and a Legacy member too). ;)

For why I dislike WoW, Warcraft as a thing is pretty much Generic Western Fantasy. Suffice to say, I find it hard to find interest in those settings - I find Lord of the Rings boring, I find Forgotten Realms generally boring, and Warcraft is only about a shade away. And for a genre where you're supposed to dive in and immerse yourself in the world for days worth of time, a setting I'm not interested in means a game I'm not interested in.