Is Final Fantasy XIV the champion of immersion? Or is it easily usurped?

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In Blade and Soul, every time you do a quest that makes you "fetch a pale of water and bring it to point XYZ", you actually go and pick up a big thing of water and carry it around until you get to the right spot. If you have to help a wounded person, you can pick them up and carry them to safety. If you have to go somewhere for a quest, that place has a visual representation of the quest you're doing.

In FFXIV, when you have to go look for stuff you click on a mysteriously invisible '???' and your quest is complete. There is no visual representation.

Delivery of quests/gameplay is poor in FFXIV.

But FFXIV has a strong commitment to lore and to a non-instanced world, so the scpoe is much grander.


FFXIV excels in some respects, but fails in others. Airship debacle would be fine if FFXIV made up for it in other ways, but it doesn't. FFXIV is like playing a MUD.