Quote Originally Posted by Rilifane View Post
Is it so impossible to simply enjoy a feature or announcement by it's own without going down the "tHiS iS sO mUcH bEtTeR tHaN tHiS oThEr gAmE"?
Some FFXIV players are apparently not confident enough in the game they enjoy to just say "I like this. This is good. Period".
I quit WoW years ago and I still sometimes think "man I like this so much more than WoW" because I played that game for over ten years, and for the latter half of it I was growing tired of Blizzard not fulfilling promises and seeming to dig their heels in with design choices that were widely disliked by the player population. I speak for so many when I say I too often felt Blizzard were telling me what I should like instead of actually introducing changes that I want. I know no one is going to get everything they want in a game but it's not a nice feeling to be painfully aware that you're part of a huge majority unhappy with a very long list of things and the devs appear to be repeatedly ignoring it.

So after the above being the norm for me for so long how FFXIV is handled is still something that makes me feel pleasantly surprised sometimes. There certainly are what I consider to be big problems in FFXIV that I am frustrated about because they aren't being addressed but that list is significantly shorter than my long time grievances with WoW.

Not trying to poop on anyone who prefers WoW. If they do, good for them and I hope they continue to be happy in that game. But for a player like me FFXIV's design philosophy is much more appealing.

I think it's only natural for players who played another game of the same genre for such a long time, go to another and feel "omg they do things so differently...and it works!" especially if that game they played had colossal success on the scale of WoW and they were unhappy while playing it despite its popularity.

It's going to be a very long time before that reaction of "I'm so glad this isn't like that other game" completely goes away for me because for so long I played WoW due to feeling like I had no other good options for my personal needs as a player. I still feel so incredibly fortunate and happy that FFXIV exists and that I don't feel like I have to endure a long list of things I dislike just so I can access that small sliver of content I enjoy.