What are your favourite games, and what can FFXIV learn from them?

[xJimmehx]

Im currently playing Black Desert Online. I have horses that i can breed and sell, mount and even perform mounted combat on. Im in a guild that works together everyday to do guild missions to better our guild. We get paid to be in our guild 14k every day. We also have a player designed emblem. I have multiple houses. Yes..dozens. I also have a bank storage in every single town and each one is separate from the others(its not shared storage). Each one free and each one can be enlarged by unlocking space(items from quest/cash shop) The cash shop so far only has fashion, skill resets, and dyes, and pets or horses and neither help you "win." So it is similar to FFXIV cash shop. Oh and i have the ability to choose my own rotation because Theres gender locked classes but theres multiple ways to play each class. And due to players complaining, theyre working on the other gender options as well.(EX: Witch and Wizard[Different gender but very similar combat]) I can also fish while afk. Or manually fish through a mini game. Thats right i have options. Oh its buy to play. 30 or 50 usd depending on your choice. Then you never pay again. Its also much more beautiful. Did i mention the storage space and the fact that its b2p? Seriously why cant a subscription game keep up with this? I also have a lore log like the glamour log people wanted and it can hold any type of knowledge possible like NPC data, recipes, monster data and location. There are over 10 thousand quests available at launch. The Gold sellers are hardly a problem compared to FF. I crafted a raft last night. This morning i drove my wife around the world on a romantic fishing trip with lots of beautiful scenery we discovered a few houses on an island and she decided to move in to one of them. I havent even logged in FFXIV since i got this game. I feel nothing for FF now. At level 50 i get to PvP 1v1, and GvG. And we saw some high level fishermen/women harpoon and bank a FREAKING WHALE from a player crafted fishing ship.

I could go on for a long long time. But itd be faster to just say I like this game better than FFXIV in every possible way EXCEPT.. uh give me a minute XD.. Well, Lack of end game(if you even reach it with 10,000 quests and levelling every single craft/gather/etc). The cut scenes arent quite as good(who cares? i play to have fun not see small HQ video clips here and there) And the voice acting sounds slightly low budget. But other than that its superior in every way in my opinion. Some people may not feel like it is as fast paced so depending on the person that could be a negative. There is also and energy system like archage had but this one doesnt suck. You can refill by Resting, Questing rewards (that are very common), or Waiting. Also its very easy to hire npcs to gather for you so you dont have to waste points or gather at all if you hate it and you plan to craft/have npcs craft for you(which is my next thing to list). you can also have npcs craft for you. You pay your npc workers with things like ice cold Beer. So energy ...i dont think is a negative but it might remind people of archeage... Dont. DO NOT. Just try it and youll see. Its much better.

TL;DR
Im sorry i got carried away. I am having a blast with this game. Honesty TL;DR I personally think FF could learn a S#@T load from Black Desert.

OH i forgot to mention Chacter creation is ridiculous. Iys so good, you can actually sculpt out real people on demand. If you have the patience for it.

[Bracken]

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I'm in the exact same boat, the game is truly amasing, the lack of insta teleport is great, you have to basically do it all by your self, guilds hire you on a weekly contract so if your not pulling your weight, they dont have to re hire you. all housing is isnstanced so everyone gets a home. pets add additional bonuses. oh and did i mention its amazing.