Game Awards

[Reap00]

Instead of the "righteous anger" at FFXIV not winning anything, have you ever stopped to consider that perhaps this may be justified?

FFXIV has grown incredibly stale in terms of content cycle. Its primary relevance years ago was that it was rebuilt on the ruins of a failed project, something that used to be rare (although by now several games have had such a revival, so the story is now old and not important anymore).
Fortnite is probably the most important game of the world right now, in terms of what it achieved, and how it has transcended past simply being a game, to being one of the most important leisure activities for young people. It also maintains its hold on an extremely fickle market (young players), drew in more new gamers than any other title since, MAYBE, WoW, in which shadow FFXIV continues to stand.
Last but not least, FFXIV has not seen any big headlines for multiple years now, with the good game journalist criticisms of Shadowbringers being the sole exception. Other than that, its just a small game happily chugging along a completely predictable, conservative content plan year after year. Maybe after 6 years thats simply not award-worthy?

FFXIV is not in WoWs shadow and hasn't been for years. People that continue to blindly sub to a product that has been degenerating for 10 years doesn't make it great.

[Niyuka]

FFXIV is not in WoWs shadow and hasn't been for years. People that continue to blindly sub to a product that has been degenerating for 10 years doesn't make it great.

Wow has less mechanics to encourage "zombie subs" than FFXIV. Its much quicker and easier to leave and pick up again after an extended break. As such I am sure there are more blind subs here, percentage-wise, than in WoW because there are reasons for it (housing, MSQ progress, limited-time rewards).
FFXIV has less players, less cultural impact, less revenue, less endgame content and less engagement on media platforms such as twitch. Its youtubers have less views on their videos, gaming journalism produces less headlines and content for it, and SE doesnt hold a candle to Blizzard in terms of brand recognition either.
That doesnt make it a bad game. But it very much is in the shadow of WoW, being the "other pve themepark".

[Reap00]

Wow has less mechanics to encourage "zombie subs" than FFXIV. Its much quicker and easier to leave and pick up again after an extended break. As such I am sure there are more blind subs here, percentage-wise, than in WoW because there are reasons for it (housing, MSQ progress, limited-time rewards).
FFXIV has less players, less cultural impact, less revenue, less endgame content and less engagement on media platforms such as twitch. Its youtubers have less views on their videos, gaming journalism produces less headlines and content for it, and SE doesnt hold a candle to Blizzard in terms of brand recognition either.
That doesnt make it a bad game. But it very much is in the shadow of WoW, being the "other pve themepark".

Let me reiterate FFXIV is not in the shadow of a 14 year old game. Thank you for playing and for your opinion.

[Maero]

Also not surprised about Fortnite. Lot more kids and so called "journalists" like IGN that play that lame game i guess.
Did enjoy trailer for Ghost of Tsushima and a few others though

[Infindox]

Wow has less mechanics to encourage "zombie subs" than FFXIV. Its much quicker and easier to leave and pick up again after an extended break. As such I am sure there are more blind subs here, percentage-wise, than in WoW because there are reasons for it (housing, MSQ progress, limited-time rewards).
FFXIV has less players, less cultural impact, less revenue, less endgame content and less engagement on media platforms such as twitch. Its youtubers have less views on their videos, gaming journalism produces less headlines and content for it, and SE doesnt hold a candle to Blizzard in terms of brand recognition either.
That doesnt make it a bad game. But it very much is in the shadow of WoW, being the "other pve themepark".

WoW is dying slowly and everyone is coming to XIV or moving to other stuff. Considering the fact that all of twitch was in agreement that XIV is one of the best MMOs on the market today, that it won the popular vote, and the reaction of people who DON'T EVEN PLAY XIV when it lost, I can safely say it has garnered enough attention to. WoW is blantely copying it now. XIV has issues, to be sure, but I assure you it's very much not "undeserving" of praise.

[Deceptus]

Funny that they had to pipe in cheers / clapping for the winner.

[NealSnow]

The real reason I'm upset it didn't go to xiv, is despite any issue's I've ever had I know everyone who works on xiv works hard, real hard. Something that's easy to forget when they do something you don't like but I digress. I'm upset because everyone and their mom's mom knows about fortnite, while xiv doesn't seem to get much recognition from anyone outside of xiv when it comes to acknowledging it exists. Despite the tidal waves of hatred and anger wow fans throw at wow, the media and such always treat it like the second coming of Christ. It's a big massive deal when wows gonna release an expansion, twitter, fc, twitch youtube ect there's a ton of exposure. Yet xiv is genuinely treated like it doesn't exist.

That kinda stuff gets on my nerves when there's hard work done, but barely recognition for it. And that's not to say I hate wow, haven't played it so I can't really form an opinion on how hard they work, but the point is wows had the spot light for years, I'd just like to see xiv get it just once, that's all.

Sure xiv is far from perfect, and again it's easy to forget how hard yoshi an team work sometimes but they do deserve the spotlight just once.

[Vaer]

I think people just watch TGA for the announcements tbh and the awards are secondary except maybe GOTY.

[Iceboy]

Big boi here we go.
This kind of stuff that makes people call this community a big circle jerk.
FF is not the all might MMO as you guys think it is.
The game is pretty niche, its a cute anime weeb game that gets the same content since 2015. Not much people play this kind of game, as opposed to fortnite, which is easier to approach over all.
It's kind of funny tho, you guys claim that gaming media picked the nominees, so you shouldn't take their opinions seriously, and yet, you get mad because your dress up weeb game didn't won any prizes. Are you even serious lmao.
And don't even try to play "the ff team works hard yadda yadda" card when you could pretty much say that to every other studio out there, lol.
Don't get me wrong, even tho the game has its flaws, I still like it a lot myself, but stop trying to put it in a pedestal, get back on reality, folks.

[Palibun]

Big boi here we go.
This kind of stuff that makes people call this community a big circle jerk.
FF is not the all might MMO as you guys think it is.
The game is pretty niche, its a cute anime weeb game that gets the same content since 2015. Not much people play this kind of game, as opposed to fortnite, which is easier to approach over all.
It's kind of funny tho, you guys claim that gaming media picked the nominees, so you shouldn't take their opinions seriously, and yet, you get mad because your dress up weeb game didn't won any prizes. Are you even serious lmao.
And don't even try to play "the ff team works hard yadda yadda" card when you could pretty much say that to every other studio out there, lol.
Don't get me wrong, even tho the game has its flaws, I still like it a lot myself, but stop trying to put it in a pedestal, get back on reality, folks.

It's not a niche tho, ffxiv is 2nd only to wow and is about to pass it in subs, and it's a main series entry in quite possibly the biggest rpg franchise in the world, or at the very least in japan. Plus fortnite has kinda been dying and the only people who really care to play it are small children and people who pander to said kids, most everyone else agrees it's mediocre at best. You're dismissing ffxiv more than we're dismissing fortnite. I personally dont give a damn about 'game awards', but the whole 'lol ffxiv isn't that good' arguement is laughably bad.