Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
I can't bring myself to hate WoW, personally. I'm terribly disappointed with the direction it chose to go in, don't get me wrong - but I still have very fond memories of the Vanilla/TBC/WOTLK era. I was even lured into trying out the Classic experience once more and although I fell in love with that side of the game all over again - in large part due to nostalgia - it just wasn't the same without my childhood friends at my side. It's also no longer as viable to spend hours just sitting back with no care for the passage of time, chatting away about all manner of different things. Perhaps because a lot of players these days are much more shy compared to back then.

With that said, I'm on the fence with FFXIV at the moment. WoW, for all its flaws, managed to push out a character customisation overhaul. Something which has been heavily requested for FFXIV. As it stands, I'm not 100% happy with the current batch of options - I'm currently playing a Midlander, which I like...but I wish he could be taller and more muscular to suit my exact tastes.

I'm also disappointed with the lack of racial lore relevance in FFXIV. There's no starter zones unique to each playable race and some race/gender combinations have very little weight or presence within the game world itself. I think Raen men look incredible but how often do you see them as NPC's? Not very often at all!

I'm hoping that Endwalker is to my liking on various fronts. I'm cautiously optimistic at the moment. On the other hand, I'm somewhat intrigued by what Blue Protocol and Pantheon are set to offer, albeit both are a decent amount of time away from releasing.
"On the fence" with FFXIV because you can't make your character more muscular and racial lore is a little lacking in terms of starter zones. Yea, i won't take you seriously.