A question to all WoW players coming to XIV

[Alucard135]

This discssuion reminded me of this vid by Nixxiom (funny vid regarding FFXIV lol).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHBLV7igV1Q

[Vonleo]

It's literally the classic version of WoW from like 2004 with minor upgrades. What are you even talking about?

I am talking about judging a game just because of the graphics makes no sense. These WoW players especially Asmongold that call this game "for weebs and its too cute" should actually take a look at there game before casting judgement because WoW looks like total crap and again looks like a sub par upgrade on graphics of Runescape.

[SturmChurro]

I am talking about judging a game just because of the graphics makes no sense. These WoW players especially Asmongold that call this game "for weebs and its too cute" should actually take a look at there game before casting judgement because WoW looks like total crap and again looks like a sub par upgrade on graphics of Runescape.

Judging the game based on artstyle not the fidelity of the graphics. The game is for "weebs" btw, there is a gigantic amount of them playing this game, literally.

[linay]

It doesn't matter..

Ultimately, it doesn't matter how people may perceive this game as long as there are enough that want to play it for Square Enix to justify continued development.

[Vercinotrix]

I played WoW as my only game from wrath to warlords, and honestly I hated the games art direction with a burning passion. Luckily for me the game was good until then so I didn't care, but FF's artstyle/direction combined with how much freedom the player has with the glamour system beats wow out for me.

Now that's not the only reason I play this over WoW exclusively, but looking up on youtube "why -insert WoD/Legion/BFA- is bad" will pretty much tell you the rest.

[grinkdaboy]

as a wowfugee myself my only complains about xiv are minor.

1) glam system blows compared to transmog
2) pvp blows compared to wow's (even excluding world pvp)
3) eureka blows but at least there's plenty of other content available (compared to bfa, if you think half of the dungeons in it were god awful and don't like the gearing system as was the case for me, you might be better off finding a new game to play. like i did!)

[Zazay]

But he seems to be favoring ESO right now (been a few days since I checked though), so the WoW community is more likely to leave WoW for ESO now than for FFXIV.

Really? Good for us then.

[Ntol]

Well, despite catpeople I wouldn´t say FFXIV´s art style is anime, but more like realistic, at least compared to WoW. Whereas WoW´s art style is clearly western comic books (huge weapons and even mages are as buff as Vin Diesel). I wouldn´t say any of those art choices is bad anyway, they follow the direction of their respective sagas.

If anything, I´d go with WoW´s landscapes, where you can go anywhere you can see, and FFXIV´s characters and their glamour options (even if the glamour system and inventory space is way more bothersome than WoW´s transmog system, which is very easy to use).

[Penthea]

I am talking about judging a game just because of the graphics makes no sense. These WoW players especially Asmongold that call this game "for weebs and its too cute" should actually take a look at there game before casting judgement because WoW looks like total crap and again looks like a sub par upgrade on graphics of Runescape.

WoW looked amazing...a very long time ago. It still looks really good but it's heading in to the "charming looking retro" category. I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, some people love this. But it definitely no longer looks like a modern game.

One of the things that shocked me most about starting FFXIV is that characters actually wear clothes, and not just textures replacing skin on most of their bodies. The clothes in FFXIV have actual material textures. I can see an obvious difference between fabric, metal and leather. There are discernible layers that don't look flat. After playing WoW for so long this blew me away.

It doesn't matter if you can find the fine lline that distinguishes such and such from an anime, or not. For the question at hand to an outsiders perspective, and I can attest to this since I don't watch ANY anime at all, or have ever since like saturday morning cartoon Pokemon, or Yu-Gi-Oh, this game looks anime. Simple as that. It will have a negative connotation just for being Japanese, simply how it is.

But...FFXIV looks absolutely nothing like Pokémon or Yu-Gi-Oh. I struggle to see the similarities between those two anime and this game. If anyone thinks they look similar then they are greatly misremembering how those anime look. It's sad that something being japanese is enough to turn someone off regardless of how it looks.

Like I said before, when an outsider watches the ShadowBringers trailer, they don't think it looks cool, they think it looks cringe, and "weeb". Just watch, since he was mentioned, Asmongold reacting to the trailer, one of the more recent ones, where he was open to trying FF out.

I'm sorry but anyone who thinks the ShB trailer looks weeb knows nothing about weeb stuff. The argument is certainly there for SB with the clear eastern influence for the environments and highlighted classes, but ShB? Most of it looks like classic western high fantasy.

I think people are overly focused on the fact that SE are a japanese company instead of taking the game for what it is. Just because it's japanese doesn't make it stereotypical otaku stuff.

Also lets not forget WoW had an expansion all about a panda race in a panda land with a panda culture that was clearly of strong eastern influence. The female pandas are super cute with huge eyes and a permanent smile plastered on to their faces...and do the cringey caramelldansen as their racial dance

But somehow FFXIV's supposed weebness and cuteness is unfamiliar territory for WoW players

edit: yes I know Caramelldansen isn't a japanese song

[Spratchet]

I am talking about judging a game just because of the graphics makes no sense. These WoW players especially Asmongold that call this game "for weebs and its too cute" should actually take a look at there game before casting judgement because WoW looks like total crap and again looks like a sub par upgrade on graphics of Runescape.

While I don't judge WoW, (I tend not to speak ill of things i've not experienced myself), the art style is entirely what put me off even trying it.