FFXIV and SqEnix vs WoW and Blizzard - My Perspective

[Zer0]

Yeah but we don’t joke about sexual assault in general chat.

People often compare the communities and say ‘wow the friendly FF14 community’ when someone is a bit snarky...

But there’s no comparison between the two. Wow is the absolute gutter of the internet. You can’t compare them in terms of communities. One is a normal community full of everyday people and one is pewdiepies comment section.

Lol kek manfreds wife raped me n00b scrub gtfo lol ded.. I mean it’s like what you expect from 12 year old boys but they’re 40 year old men.

When did I ever say it was? You can turn off that chat. And I've seen similar here in FF14. But most people in WoW have turned off all forms of world chat 10 years ago. But at least their chat is active. Meanwhile when comparing guilds to free companies, I've felt more connected within WoW guilds than I ever had in Free Companies. Purely because they're ALWAYS clickish. Most FC's I've been in there is a group of people that only talk in their own internal linkshell. You never hear anything being talked about in FC chat. They're in their own little clicks that make you question why they're even in the FC to begin with. And you can't get to know them because they're in content a new player won't unlock for a few months. By that time most have quit to go to other FC's to repeat the process of joining a click Linkshell and never talking in FC chat.

A game being not-negative doesn't mean it's positive either.

[Zer0]

This is because "statics" are a consequence of a game that used to be dying so people formed groups across server as their own servers were dead or dying. FC's are technically supposed to be guilds that you do everything with but because the Savage content is only 8 man this MMO has never evolved to suit more difficult content that needs more coordination.

As for "new players" this is just shockingly uninformed given the amount of new people I see joining vs when I played WoW for several years. WoW's solution to your complaint was to basically gut the leveling experience, make it meaningless and have you get to max level as soon as possible burning through one expansions content that you will quickly forget.

My question to you if you get to end game in an RPG but have literally no clue what is going on then what is the point?

This is what I'm talking about with this game not being positive. You're a prime example of why both games have bad players who fan boy to no end using strawman tactics that wouldn't be out of place in a debate between CNN and Fox News.

[Jojoya]

My question to you if you get to end game in an RPG but have literally no clue what is going on then what is the point?

In single player RPG, there would be none.

In a MMORPG, the point is to play with others. You find others who share an interest in the things that also interest you. It doesn't mean you need to have an interest in every facet of the game, and that includes story.

The conflict tends to come in when players from both sides get placed into the same content together. The story lovers may not want to rush through a dungeon and its cutscenes. Those who don't care about story do want to rush through so they can get to the next bit of content faster.

Players need to accept that there's a type of experience the game developers are trying to present. SE focuses on story in Final Fantasy games, including FFXIV. Blizzard focuses on competitive end game in WoW and many of its other titles. If you play FFXIV expecting the Blizzard game experience, or WoW expecting the SE game experience, you're going to end up less satisfied than you would by playing the other game. It doesn't mean you shouldn't play the game but you also shouldn't expect it to change to be what you want.

[Deceptus]

Because of the questionable decisions the WoW developers have made over the last few years, players are jaded and unhappy. Any bad feedback is usually met with condescending Twitter posts or outright dismissal on the forums, usually to the tune of "Yeah, we hear you, but we're gonna do this anyway". They see their way as the only way. It doesn't matter what the players want. The dev team created this rift and it is only getting bigger as time goes on. There is a clear disdain for the player base on behalf of the devs, and the player base has only reciprocated it.

On the flip side of things, the FF XIV dev team remains in relatively frequent contact with their player base, acknowledge their issues and address what I'd say would be most of them, for better or worse. They try. I just don't think they quite know what the player base wants sometimes so they take a guess. I also question their priorities sometimes, but at least they are doing things. Again, they try. I wish I could say the same about modern day Blizzard, but...they have stopped trying and caring. So I have too and moved on for now.

Bull.

The FFXIV developers have had their moments of extreme stubbornness as well.

In 2.0 The Developers told us we were "playing warrior wrong" despite multiple points of feedback. It took an uproar to get them sorted out.
In 3.0 The Developers told us we were "Playing Bard (aka Bow Mage) wrong" despite multiple points of feedback showing casting made DPS WORSE.
In 4.0 tanks were a mess, especially [DARK ARTS] Dark [DARK ARTS] Knights [DARK ARTS]. They had the worst mitigation of any tank. outside of TBN. It was being used as a crutch.
In 5.0 Healers have been and are still an absolute disaster.

Meanwhile Monk has almost always been in a bad spot.

I'm probably forgetting a major thing or 3 over the years.

Lets not pretend that the FFXIV developers are infallible, white knight them, or keep rose colored glasses on.

Praise them when they do right, and call them out respectfully when they don't.

And you can't say that "Blizz does nothing" when you look at patch notes and see entire sheets of buffs and nerfs changing classes overnight. If anything, IMHO, Blizz listens to pressure too much. They definitely have their favorite specs they want to play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-4u6gn1r4U

[Allegor]

And you can't say that "Blizz does nothing" when you look at patch notes and see entire sheets of buffs and nerfs changing classes overnight. If anything, IMHO, Blizz listens to pressure too much. They definitely have their favorite specs they want to play.

Ironically, that's actually one of their flaws. Sure the XIV devs are stubborn in certain aspects *cough* "pure healers" in a game practically designed to be a green dps that happens to heal *cough*, but at least they mostly give their reasonings to why not, whereas in WoW it's either straight up silence or they go up to 11 in what ends feeling like a "careful to what you wish for" situation.

Nobody is ever happy because many of their decision making ends up looking like this:

[Mavrias]

Yeah but we don’t joke about sexual assault in general chat.

People often compare the communities and say ‘wow the friendly FF14 community’ when someone is a bit snarky...

But there’s no comparison between the two. Wow is the absolute gutter of the internet. You can’t compare them in terms of communities. One is a normal community full of everyday people and one is pewdiepies comment section.

Lol kek manfreds wife raped me n00b scrub gtfo lol ded.. I mean it’s like what you expect from 12 year old boys but they’re 40 year old men.

*looks at the multiple posts this week about homophobic and racist slurs being spammed in novice networks*

[TheMightyMollusk]

You mean the one troll spamming trial accounts? As opposed to WoW's history of ongoing conversations between multiple people? Because, having experienced both, it's really not a fair comparison.

[Mavrias]

You mean the one troll spamming trial accounts? As opposed to WoW's history of ongoing conversations between multiple people? Because, having experienced both, it's really not a fair comparison.

That specific instance has been going on for months as mentioned by those posts. Additionally, that is only the most recent instance that I care to pull from, but equally foul chat can and does happen in say in major cities.

Full on brothels and explicit erp advertisements (joking or not) in party finder, etc.

I've also experienced both. All I'm saying is that this community living in a glass house shouldn't throw stones.

[ItMe]

[...]novice networks*

Novice network =/= general chat.
(Though yes the Novice network is a problem)
But hell, I'm glad to be playing an MMO where people aren't using shout to blast obscene comments for "teh lulz."

[Mavrias]

Novice network =/= general chat.
(Though yes the Novice network is a problem)
But hell, I'm glad to be playing an MMO where people aren't using shout to blast obscene comments for "teh lulz."

Ah yes. The chat where new players would likely get some of their first impressions of the game's community is clearly less important than say chat. Silly me.