Final Fantasy XIV Is The Best MMORPG Right Now

[Clover_Blake]

It's the absolute best for me, because it's the only one that offers everything I've ever dreamed for in an MMORPG:

+Great graphics with very attractive characters.
+Tons of glamours to play with.
+This might seem silly, but being able to sit on chairs around the world, and having actual cool places to sit in like Limsa's restaurant, is a very important detail for me that most MMORPG lack.
+Characters turning their heads to look at each other. Something so simple that makes they look alive and aware of each other!
+Characters can even change their standing and sitting poses, and move their lips when they speak! What other game offers this kind of personalisation?!
+Emotes you can combine with head movement and facial expressions, coupled with the best camera system I've ever seen. All that helps me take all sort of creative screens and recreate stories, and I LOVE that.
+Housing, another creative tool.
+Game gets updates very often. Updates are fun (to me).
+Getting good gear is not an impossible feat. Game doesn't punish you with tons of mandatory, mindless farming and RNG like other games have punished me in the past. Thus, FFXIV has felt safe and not toxic for me, like fresh air.

The only things I might appreciate more from other games are the action combat system (albeit I don't dislike the FFXIV one), and a wider character creation with face and body sliders. But these alone don't make the other MMORPGs better, for they lack absolutely everything else. Most MMORPGs lack creative and social aspects, and merely focus on combat; there's nothing more to do other than combat. I tend to find that boring after a few weeks, no matter how nice the battle system is. If we add the P2W elements, and that each of the very little fashion options they might offer tend to cost more than a month's sub in FFXIV, you get the unhappy picture.

I think FFXIV has spoiled me too much *laughs*. It's given me so many things that now I won't be able to find any other game that's half as good.

[Driavna]

It's a really good online game but as an MMORPG is rather terrible.

[Teraluna]

FFXIV is one of the best currently around. Others would be ESO and......err.....well something.
The offerings are pretty thin, but people will always have their own favourites.

[Nedkel]

I love how the game servers are not divided with channels or "shards" and all cities in the game has a lot of players walking around.
This feels like the mmorpg i want to play, not a single player game with some multiplayer features.

[KageTokage]

The only things keeping XIV from being perfect to me are:

1. The ToS enforcement is pure trash and people can get away with both harassment and cheating regularly.

2. Virtually no mid/hardcore content for small groups. The later floors of PotD/HoH are basically the only semi-difficult four player content in the game.

3. PvP is...hit or miss. Some people seem to enjoy it, but for a lot of others the only thing that pushes them to get involved are the rewards which causes problems when said rewards don't even necessarily require a win to be obtained.

[Sathona]

The only things keeping XIV from being perfect to me are:

1. The ToS enforcement is pure trash and people can get away with both harassment and cheating regularly.

2. Virtually no mid/hardcore content for small groups. The later floors of PotD/HoH are basically the only semi-difficult four player content in the game.

3. PvP is...hit or miss. Some people seem to enjoy it, but for a lot of others the only thing that pushes them to get involved are the rewards which causes problems when said rewards don't even necessarily require a win to be obtained.

What bothers me is that if you try to correct someone they might get offended and report you and guess what ull get banned or warned.
Same if you turn down someones offer for something? Feels offended > warned or banned.
This is really getting out of hand in a way. They should look into things more and not just "he got offended,ill ban the person"

[Anzaman]

The only things keeping XIV from being perfect to me are:

1. The ToS enforcement is pure trash and people can get away with both harassment and cheating regularly.

On other hand my FC member got warning from GM for "Disruptive behavior" when they were competing for house placard.

One way to win house for yourself.. I guess.. just report other players at placard, and put them in in-game jail.

[verilix]

FFXIV is one of the best currently around. Others would be ESO and......err.....well something.
The offerings are pretty thin, but people will always have their own favourites.

Not a fan of GW2/WoW/BDO?

[Drayce1]

We really shouldn’t have this “It’s decent, so don’t add anything.” Mentality. We all want FFXIV to succeed and stay relevant for years and years to come. We want the game to be the go-to MMO for everybody. No matter how you look at it, the character customization and graphics are lacking quite a bit. Mostly the customization features.

Also, that’s quite disingenuous to say that nobody looks like your character, lol. Every once in a while you’ll %100 come across someone who looks similar to you. I know I do, even on my AuRa alt.

Have yet to. Do get alot of girls telling me how hot he is though. Beh...

[Drayce1]

BDO blows this one right out of the water. You can shape practically their entire face in that game. I have seen quite a few who looked basically identical to my Au ra. I have yet to run into another Lahn in BDO that looks like mine.

And yet, BDO is p2w cash grab trash.

/golfclap