I've been playing FFXIV off and on for the past 5 years, not sticking to it that much only playing it when WoW was in a Lul. Well after the recent lay offs at Blizzard, and Square Enix reaching out to those effected, I decided to speak with my wallet.
Eorzea is now my new MMo home. It is good to be home.
As of today FFXIV is my new Main MMo
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02-13-2019, 02:13 PMIzanagi_FiaresuAs of today FFXIV is my new Main MMo
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02-13-2019, 04:27 PMAnnaRosaYou will see what will happen to you when you acquire a in game home! Its amazing what you can do with the housing system it gives a new meaning to the word home.Quote:
Originally Posted by Izanagi_Fiaresu
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02-14-2019, 12:00 AMnoxenI've been in the exact same boat as you, and as of June last year XIV was my main game of choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Izanagi_Fiaresu
After the layoffs and earnings report last night, I'm done with Hacktivision-Lolzzard. I've removed all of their products from my PC and I refuse to play or purchase any of their content until they shape the heck up.
Welcome to Eorzea, friend. You're in for a good time. -
02-14-2019, 12:04 AMloreleidiangelo
I think WoW is still the better game for dungeons, healer design and raiding, which are all things that are huge priorities to me, so I will continue playing it. But other people have different priorities, and I get that the mass layoffs, especially of community figures like Ythisens, don't exactly inspire confidence in the company or the game these days, so I can't fault you for switching.
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02-14-2019, 12:19 AMAltaeciana
Welcome back, I think... Err, yeah! Welcome back!
I myself joined up FFXIV after quitting WoW, but this was like almost 7 years ago. I had actually quit Wow about 10 years ago. For the 3 year intermittent period between, I was playing World of Tanks mainly as all I ever did. I still play World of Tanks, but now that is more of a side ho.
When I heard about the ARR beta, I tried it out and realized it was a revamp of the older FF14 that I was also once part of the beta for. But it had enough of a refined quality to it that made me want to invest in it and 2.0 launches with me buying the first collector's edition!
The game gets boring at some point and you feel like it flatlines with nothing new to do. But it's worthwhile to hang on and try to be as productive with your character as possible. Because pending updates tend to be worth it. Yoshida has done a great job if introducing updates that are impactful with new additional content that resuscitate the game, even if only for a month. -
02-14-2019, 01:36 AMNintendoAnimeFanSquare reaching out to who? The people who played WoW? Or the laid off employees of Blizzard?Quote:
Originally Posted by Izanagi_Fiaresu
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02-14-2019, 01:39 AMloreleidiangelohttps://twitter.com/SquareEnix/statu...80812386930689Quote:
Originally Posted by NintendoAnimeFan
Guessing OP means this. -
02-14-2019, 03:25 AMTheUltimate3
For a while now I chuckled at the thought of "WoW Refugees" going to other mmos, XIV and ESO in particular....until I ended up booting up XIV 3 weeks ago and went back to Mol Iloh where Temulun welcomed me back home.
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02-14-2019, 08:00 AMNintendoAnimeFanPretty classy move by Square!Quote:
Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo
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02-14-2019, 07:34 PMloreleidiangeloI know I'm going to get labeled a "hater" here, but tbh most of it is probably empty PR. Looking at the jobs listed here, basically none of these positions are applicable to the skillsets of the people Blizzard fired, who were mostly GMs/CMs/marketing/esports-related. Even LinkedIn doesn't have a ton of offerings relative to the positions Blizz canned; it's all stuff like senior artists and Japanese bi-lingual devs.Quote:
Originally Posted by NintendoAnimeFan
I have no doubt some of the Blizzard employees might be able to find a new position with Square, but not many and for the most part this is just low-hanging fruit PR-wise for SE. -
02-15-2019, 03:38 PMIzanagi_Fiaresu
Still enjoying it more everyday. I am glad I made the switch.
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02-15-2019, 04:20 PMZukissa
It's the best MMORPG out there right now. Feel free to tell me why not.
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02-15-2019, 08:41 PMAyer2015There are several English speaking non-development jobs posted... in Europe however. Do you really expect SE to have 800 non-development jobs open?Quote:
Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo
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02-15-2019, 09:08 PMNtolI personally like WoW´s gameplay better. It´s way more fluid, and I don´t only mean the battles but the questing too. WoW´s open world also helps having that perception, since in FFXIV it looks like you are changing screens after every second step.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zukissa
That said, overall I like FFXIV much more. Beginning with the story, which is great and leaves you hyped for the next patch to see how it continues, while in WoW it´s retcon after retcon and lack of coherence everywhere for the sake of "rule of cool". I also feel like FFXIV´s endgame is much better: while both of them rely heavily on grinds I feel like FFIV has a higher variety of content to do: between Wondrous Tails, Eureka, weekly tomestones, daily roulettes and levelling all Jobs, to name a few. Lastly, I also feel the community is much better. What kills the community in WoW are the stupid factions and the constant fights between players who favor one over the other.
I also would like to mention SWTOR, which has an amazing story, where you can even decide the outcome of some quests, but falls short in all other departments, specially if you don´t pay for it. -
02-16-2019, 04:30 AMlinayOn the one hand, the limited loading screen is nice. On the other hand, every time I teleport, the loading in WoW takes way longer on average for me than in FFXIV. I also suspect that open world feel of the zones is part of the reason why WoW has to resort to so-called sharding more often, which is not great to see happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ntol
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02-16-2019, 05:52 AMJojoyaWoW created what they referred to as "seamless instance transitions" in a documentary they released a few years back. That's why you can go from Elwynn to Westfall without experiencing a loading screen even though they are technically separate instances the way the zones in FFXIV are.Quote:
Originally Posted by linay
It's also why passengers would get dumped off 2 player flying mounts and fall to their deaths when crossing over zone boundaries for the first few years after CRZ was released. The server had to decide which instance it was going to place the players in and one player would load to the new instance faster than the other causing the dismount. It's possible it's related to why your load screens going between world (continent) servers takes longer but I can't say for certain.
It's got nothing to do with sharding, which is based on the population in those separate zone instances. Blizzard resorted to shoving players from too many servers into the same zone instance then has to shard to break them back up into populations the instance can handle. And sharding is one of the main reasons many of us won't go back to WoW again. Pretty disappointing to find they intend to use it for Classic (and no I don't believe them when they say it will only be temporary). -
02-16-2019, 06:08 AMlinayIt seems like a wasted effort then, but oh well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jojoya
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02-16-2019, 06:16 AMFelixDaCat
I've also stopped my WoW sub due to the recent behaviour of Scumivision and the job losses. So with no WoW, I started my FF account back up.
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02-16-2019, 07:00 AMPurrsnikittyI followed the tweet link... hmmm....Quote:
Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo
Product Manager, Avengers
Senior Product Manager, Marvel Properties
Operations Support Agent (Bilingual English/Japanese)
Senior Marketing Manager, Mobile
Manager, Western Product Marketing
Senior Manager, Product Marketing - MMO/Online
Associate Manager, Western Product Marketing
Looks like most of their job openings in El Segundo are marketing. -
02-16-2019, 07:26 AMGeigeretteIon used to be a lawyer and is now a Game Director. I'm not sure what the average CM's educational background is, but they probably have varying educations and a shared eagerness to get their foot in the door of a good gaming company and sometimes take lower positions to work in and up.Quote:
Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo
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02-16-2019, 12:14 PMguardin
im glad you enjoy ff14. i love the game but two things that bother me. the combat and bad textures. bosses are fine bu normal enemies is a snooze fest. they need to in 5.0 make it more interactive like dodging, reversals behind the opportunity, knocking enemies. in the air or something then running in a circle
besides that, its a fantastic game ran by a passionate team! just remember to check out other non mmos and life in general as well and take breaks. -
02-16-2019, 12:25 PMRamessesIndeed... Blizzard laying off around eight percent of their global staff was quite unwise especially after they touted 2018 as a great year for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Izanagi_Fiaresu
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02-16-2019, 02:08 PMAltaecianaI somewhat agree with the idea that normal enemies (trash mobs, starter groups/packs, whatever you want to call them) have no novelty with them other than the cookie-cutter design. "Oh, this one is a LNC type, here comes Heartstopper!" But I totally disagree with making them more manipulative. I think the last thing we need is a zany group pack you pull and they're all over the place. Imagine your caster DPS having to move around so much because they have to dodge this and that.Quote:
Originally Posted by guardin
If anything, the game should follow a similar AI design such as FFXI had where the enemy group packs have a semi-party styled synergy. I think that is the spice of change we can all really appreciate to liven up the game more. Imagine being a caster DPS and getting stunned because the enemy group pack recognized your role's necessities.
The next step would be to start recognizing the enemy name types who YOUR group now needs to CC and manipulate. You also start re-employing a kill/priority order.