Gamerant lists MMORPG's with best stories, FFXIV #6, WoW #1, uhh

[Halivel]

Adding to everything else, it's an article, not a poll with huge amount of people participating in it, so it's just subjective personal opinion. All listed games are good in their own way (I played most of them), so it really comes down to personal preferences.

[Reap00]

I have never even heard of gamerant. I will now never read anything they write either. FFXIV lore/story is MUCH better than WoW. WoW bored me to tears not only with the terrible story but in its presentation as well.

[Jennah]

Hey. WoW has a great story, by the way!

It's just too bad that only like 5% of it is actually in the game.

[Edax]

They also credit Illidan as "among the greatest video game villains of all time" despite part of Legion being devoted to how Illidan wasn't actually a villain at all, so that article's credibility is near zero.

Or Illidan as practically Sir-Not-Appearing-In-This-Expansion in The Burning Crusade.

[Divinemights]

Hey. WoW has a great story, by the way!

It's just too bad that only like 5% of it is actually in the game.

Do you mean every major character ends up Villian due to the corruption?
I mean every single one of them?

[TheMightyMollusk]

Except for maybe the Void Lords, but they were the source of most of the corruption, so it's a fine line.

[Drkdays]

WoW has books, movies, several games, dozens of recognizable characters (many of which have been killed already) epic plot twists, generations of family characters, in-depth racial origin stories, character development towards good AND evil, betrayal, fleshed out characters with plenty of personality, and more. 14 has a lot of that, too. Just not nearly so much. Now, if they were talking about FF as a series it'd be different. But just 14? How could one game compete? It simply hasn't had enough time.

[Divinemights]

WoW do have rich lores but nevertheless it means nothing if they can’t present that in game.
Remember the game Destiny?
It too also have a rich lores, but it means nothing if I need to read it somewhere else

[LittleImp]

Chad orc story vs virgin anime story /s

Realistically, WoW probably won simply because a lot of the characters and story arcs are kind of an iconic part of MMO history. FFXIV isn't exactly a household name outside of it's community bubble, so a hastily scrawled clickbait article likely isn't going to give it too much consideration.

[Chasingstars]

WoW has books, movies, several games, dozens of recognizable characters (many of which have been killed already) epic plot twists, generations of family characters, in-depth racial origin stories, character development towards good AND evil, betrayal, fleshed out characters with plenty of personality, and more. 14 has a lot of that, too. Just not nearly so much. Now, if they were talking about FF as a series it'd be different. But just 14? How could one game compete? It simply hasn't had enough time.

How about simply as World of Warcraft versus FF14 as a more direct comparison to how the storytelling is handled? As if you are going to bring up all of WoW's extra material and games, then its only fair that we bring up all of FF series extra material and games. As a lot of what makes FF14, FF, is that it takes existing things from what came before to establish its game.