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Return to that Pay-To-Win game ?? I will try and be nice when I say this; But Hell to the NO. I am NOT giving those breast milk thieves any of my money.
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nothing could make me go back.
even if they offered to do their own QA instead of having the players do it on "test center" and then ignore their feedback
even if they paid me to play their game
some jobs, you never want to go back to. and WoW was a job.
I submitted my resignation and moved on. nothing they came up with now could make me want to relive it.
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No because I don't play bad games let alone spend money to play bad games.
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Sheer morbid curiosity is the only thing motivating my anticipation of the new expansion reveal.
I miss some of the aesthetics of WoW sometimes, and some of the specs that don't have an equivalent FF job. Even some of the playable races, since they're so varied compared to XIV. Blizzard would have given us playable moogles and loporrits and probably cactuars or something by now, plus all the humans and near-humans we already have. The thing is, for the few things WoW has that XIV doesn't have, there's a laundry list of caveats six miles long that ruin it for me. Their armor sets look worse the further your character model's proportions are from the default male human. Animations are lackluster and spells still look weak even after several major revisions. The story is complete garbage, I can't get emotionally invested in any of it. Even when Stormblood felt like a huge drop in story quality for XIV, it still had vividly memorable moments and I cared about at least some of the major characters.
WoW's class/spec design is also terrible, after getting used to the flow of XIV. Almost every spec has some variation of the rogue's combo points system from when the game launched, and it was once unique to the rogue. The pacing is all wrong, it's all about mashing the same few buttons over and over on a blazing-fast GCD. There's no weight to any of it. Some of the spells look visually impressive, but none of the biggest ones really hit all that hard, at least in PvE. I've been saying for years that my favorite spec (Retribution paladin) should play more like SAM does.
That being said, after 6.1 I'm starting to get a little concerned that XIV is going to dumb down its combat to WoW's current levels. If SAM and DRG start following WoW's design trends, I'll have to find something else to play. I don't have a house here, I don't think I'll ever finish the omnicrafter grind, and I'm not that interested in running endgame content on-level. My emotional investment in the MSQ and my deep-seated love for the (pre-6.1) look and feel of the SAM job are what keep me anchored here.
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Never played WoW, never will lol.
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I have a habit of trying out new WoW expacs when they come out, usually it's one of the more fun times in an expansion's life cycle since there's so many people running around and everything's very new without the apparent flaws standing out just yet. I may try this one, though a part of that is admittedly being kind of a weakling when it comes to anything dragon themed (I'm just a big fan of dragons, in general) and I do like playing more MMO's (and just games) than only XIV since I think having more experience within the genre can make you a bit more well-rounded when it comes to critically thinking about systems and design (which, is fun to think about -- I'm no genius on the subject, but it's fun to kind of just... try and think it all through, y'know?). If there was any truth to that "NFT" thing I saw floating around (I haven't dug into it, I just know it was on a survey or something) then no, I won't touch it at all at that point.
I might play games with cash shops I disagree with, with some monetization practices I hate, but I do have some hard lines.
As for the housing, if they do it, would make me curious. I'd wonder what angle they'd approach it from, how they handle the problems other games face (if they do manage to), how they choose to implement it in the world, etc...
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No. Knowing Blizzard even if they did add housing, it'd be a feature for exactly one expansion before it's abandoned in the next and they do everything in their power to discourage you from interacting with it.
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No. That bridge wasn't burnt, it was nuked harder than Bozja
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I play both actively so yeah, I'd keep going back to WoW and get housing there. I love my Garrison.
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lol no
A housing hiccup isn't going to make me leave and go back to World of Diablocraft 3. I quit in WoD and every time I go back to see for myself how WoW's changed I just end up laughing while I get a refund of 15 dollars.
FFXIV is the last MMO I'm gonna play. I hate the genre for the most part and I hate hardcore PvE. I only played WoW for 10+ years for arena and somehow they make that worse every expansion. If FFXIV becomes raid savage or die or my classes get gutted I'm just done with MMOs for good. Though with how much midcore and casual content they produce I'm probably going to be here for a good while.