How does FF14 compare to WoW? (And other MMOs)

[Mavrias]

The fact that Blizzard doesnt refund people the millions of dollars they get from unused gametime? They pay for seven days and get six. UI also note that FRF 14 doesnt shut their servers down every week. Odd, innit?



Oh you mean the toy with a 24 hour cooldown, doesnt persist through death? Or the potion that cant be bought for gold but requires grinding timewalk dungeons?

Sorry but when an MMO cant or wont manage a basic QoL like a unified time of day system, its broken. Blizzard also has a game calendar that is ALSO tied to US time....like making a calendar that shows events in local time is hard?

I hate to say this, but Blizzards favourite mantra seems to be "this cant be done". It can be done, they just WONT and they dont care.

blizzards weekly maintenance are usually no more than an hour with maybe 5 hour maintenance for major patches and 8ish hours for expansion launches. XIVs maintenance are rarely less than four hours even for minor hotfixes, 6-8 for patches, and 24+ for expansion launches. if you're going to complain about losing an hour every week and not getting refunded less than a dime every month, I wonder what you're like on 14 maintenance days, or heaven forbid an expansion launch.


its fun to criticize other companies for what they cant vs won't do when SE has been giving those same excuses about Viera/ Hrothgar hair and helms, healing, fight design, etc.

[Penthea]

blizzards weekly maintenance are usually no more than an hour with maybe 5 hour maintenance for major patches and 8ish hours for expansion launches. XIVs maintenance are rarely less than four hours even for minor hotfixes, 6-8 for patches, and 24+ for expansion launches. if you're going to complain about losing an hour every week and not getting refunded less than a dime every month, I wonder what you're like on 14 maintenance days, or heaven forbid an expansion launch.

That just comes with the genre. Every mmo has regular maintenance. I get that it can be annoying but it is necessary. It only bothered me long ago when I played in web cafés so sometimes a surprise maintenance literally ruined my night. It sucked to pay for game time at the café and find an emergency maintenance that finished long after the game time would be over (and no they wouldn't let me check if there was one unless I paid ). Since I got my own gaming rig it doesn't bother me much.

As for refunds, eh would be nice but at the same time I don't get my knickers in a twist over a missing a few hours at most. I just do something else.