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

[Rhomagus]

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 wounder person, you can pick them up and carry them. If you have to go somewhere for a quest, that place has a visual representation of the quest your 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.

I agree with this please read my "Future Airship Content Ideas" and let me know what you think.

[User201109011315]

I agree with this please read my "Future Airship Content Ideas" and let me know what you think.

With all due respect, I find the presentation of your replies very irritating to read, but perhaps your threads are better?

[Rhomagus]

With all due respect, I find the presentation of your replies very irritating to read, but perhaps your threads are better?

They are thorough and leave no room for interpretation. Otherwise that is how circular arguments get started. People tend to like to pull out the "You didn't read my post" excuse when, not only did I read their post, but I read it more thoroughly than they have read my own. This method does not give them that excuse, though I still find I get cherry picked and quote mined still, but I know when to stop when people invoke too many logical fallacies or get off topic.