Theme park MMO

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12-27-2020, 07:03 PM
Tranquilmelody7

Theme park MMO

As someone who skips almost all cutscenes and text in this game, while also not engaging in any high end content I still enjoy this game a lot.

This MMO offers a varied amount of venues for entertainment for many people to engage with and hopefully enjoy.

I personally enjoy:
Hunts(Especially S ranks)
Treasure maps solo and party
Overworld content in general, I love exploring the field zones
The music
Playing the market and earning pure
Dungeons
Alliance raids
Crafting
Talking to people and helping people ingame especially!

What are your favorite things to do in this game?
12-27-2020, 07:18 PM
Theodric

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Originally Posted by Tranquilmelody7

What are your favorite things to do in this game?

Decorating my mansion! I've always had a weakness for player housing in pretty much any game that includes it.
12-27-2020, 08:05 PM
Azazil

I honestly believe you did yourself a disservice by skipping all the cut scenes. There were some great moments in them. Though I like the crafting aspects myself
12-27-2020, 08:46 PM
Vyrerus

I really like blowing up Stone Sky Sea dummies when new raid patches come around. Get the full crafted set and the newest ex primal weapon or crafted weapon, and BAM! Break the final savage tier dummy in a few tries on each job.
12-28-2020, 10:11 AM
SturmChurro

Apparently, according to this great and welcoming community, "this game isn't for you" then. :rolleyes:

My favorite thing is probably glamour, but I barely ever make any new ones.. because I am always poor. I spend most of my gil (all) on expensive dyes.
12-28-2020, 10:16 AM
Soge01

Crafting and Gathering. It's a pretty relaxing thing for me to do. :D
12-28-2020, 10:51 AM
StriderShinryu

Even if you do enjoy the story, there really is only so much of it. If you only play the game for the story and nothing else then you're probably going to be done playing the game at most a week after each patch.

As for myself, I enjoy levelling alternate jobs and taking part in the various alternate progression systems we have in the game. Collecting various mounts and minions I like is another thing I dabble in. I'm not a Collector that needs to have everything but if I see something I really want I will go out of my way for it. And glamour, of course.
12-28-2020, 08:38 PM
Frizze

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Decorating my mansion! I've always had a weakness for player housing in pretty much any game that includes it.

I really need to get around to doing that. My yard looks great(subjective opinion of course, but it is fully decorated). Meanwhile my door is locked because the inside is a mess and less then 1/4 done. Id rather the neighbors think i had it finished then show off the ugly truth.
12-28-2020, 11:53 PM
ReynTime

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

Apparently, according to this great and welcoming community, "this game isn't for you" then. :rolleyes:

My favorite thing is probably glamour, but I barely ever make any new ones.. because I am always poor. I spend most of my gil (all) on expensive dyes.

That's odd if people say that. If anything this game has too much "theme park" and not enough midcore PvE.

In fact that's my personal complaint about the last two expansions. It feels like the content I care about has been getting more simplified and few in quantity in favor of all the glamour/housing or themepark stuff that I don't care much about. If I don't do savage or ultimate I'm not left with much to do once I max all jobs (which I did).
And I don't find the overworld that interesting to explore. ARR zones in spite of being small and restrictive had much more detail and secrets put onto them. When they started adding large zones, they have felt rather barren, and most hamlets feel more like props than they used to. Shadowbringers areas and Yanxia are great to look at but not great to wander through. Not helped by the fact monsters seem to be more haphazardly spread and all of them are aggressive.
12-29-2020, 03:07 PM
SturmChurro

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Originally Posted by ReynTime

That's odd if people say that. If anything this game has too much "theme park" and not enough midcore PvE.

In fact that's my personal complaint about the last two expansions. It feels like the content I care about has been getting more simplified and few in quantity in favor of all the glamour/housing or themepark stuff that I don't care much about. If I don't do savage or ultimate I'm not left with much to do once I max all jobs (which I did).
And I don't find the overworld that interesting to explore. ARR zones in spite of being small and restrictive had much more detail and secrets put onto them. When they started adding large zones, they have felt rather barren, and most hamlets feel more like props than they used to. Shadowbringers areas and Yanxia are great to look at but not great to wander through. Not helped by the fact monsters seem to be more haphazardly spread and all of them are aggressive.

According to some people, it seems any sort of criticism of this game - especially if it has to do with the story - means "this game isn't for you". There is plenty of other content besides the story, that can satisfy a player.

I do agree however, there isn't enough PvE content in general. I wish this game had more to do in that area. I'm speaking broadly, not necessarily raids or whatever. Frankly, I don't think we get enough proper glamour, or cosmetics to strive for actually. Housing is nothing to me, I will never be able to afford one. Same with ultimate or savage, I don't do that. I wish their seasonal events would stop offloading so much decor, and offer other things (not the "5, 4, 3, 2, 1" sparkler things either)
12-30-2020, 03:06 AM
van_arn

Ffxiv would be a terrible game if it couldn’t stand without its story. I’m always glad to see someone enjoying the game the “wrong” way.
12-30-2020, 03:10 AM
ReynTime

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

According to some people, it seems any sort of criticism of this game - especially if it has to do with the story - means "this game isn't for you". There is plenty of other content besides the story, that can satisfy a player.

I do agree however, there isn't enough PvE content in general. I wish this game had more to do in that area. I'm speaking broadly, not necessarily raids or whatever. Frankly, I don't think we get enough proper glamour, or cosmetics to strive for actually. Housing is nothing to me, I will never be able to afford one. Same with ultimate or savage, I don't do that. I wish their seasonal events would stop offloading so much decor, and offer other things (not the "5, 4, 3, 2, 1" sparkler things either)

Hunt was trivialized by cross-world hunt trains. So that's one non-instanced PvE content off the list, pretty much.
12-30-2020, 03:11 AM
Payadopa

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Originally Posted by ReynTime

That's odd if people say that. If anything this game has too much "theme park" and not enough midcore PvE.

In fact that's my personal complaint about the last two expansions. It feels like the content I care about has been getting more simplified and few in quantity in favor of all the glamour/housing or themepark stuff that I don't care much about. If I don't do savage or ultimate I'm not left with much to do once I max all jobs (which I did).
And I don't find the overworld that interesting to explore. ARR zones in spite of being small and restrictive had much more detail and secrets put onto them. When they started adding large zones, they have felt rather barren, and most hamlets feel more like props than they used to. Shadowbringers areas and Yanxia are great to look at but not great to wander through. Not helped by the fact monsters seem to be more haphazardly spread and all of them are aggressive.

I second that.
I'd like to see more Bozja FATEs or aggressive monsters in 6.0. Monsters are way too boring and the overworld is too tame (but very pretty!).