Square Enix respects my time

[Shougun]

WoW shouldn't be the only game to measure against but it absolutely makes sense to be one of them, being a titan in the industry (FFXIV doing exceptionally well, as well), it also is worth noting Yoshida has had many kind words for Blizzard over the years and so showing off to the devs you can make a giant dump on the game is probably not going to actually win you as many fan points as one might think. I appreciate when I can reference another MMO to show that FFXIV should sharpen up some part of their game. Sometimes it's a big painful in certain areas, like glamour, but I'm hopeful the existence of another doing it better encourages the devs and empowers them to get the resources and back up they need from the head to do things that need to be done to keep the game at the top. Isolation leads to stagnation.

Bellular coming over would, imo, be pretty good news. Maybe FFXIV can help him make the transition, I feel if he could bring over a lot of the crowd that enjoys his work but is normally focused on WoW you'd have a good win for this game as he's pretty calm and doesn't lather WoW in kisses and rainbows so whoever generally follows him will be less likely to be like "I guess I'll try the weeb game, ew anime". lol. More likely to bring over people who will appreciate the game for being the game that it is (his crowd lining up with this game, I think). Heck, I don't play WoW and I watch his videos semi-regularly lol.

Also for OP, I really appreciate that this game has a warm heart to the more casual and non-'make this game my secondary, if not primary, job'. Which to clarify isn't me saying hardcore players need to be kicked out or there shouldn't be that content, as I know that seems to be the assumed war "either you're that or you're this". That content has a place, but in general FFXIV seems to be mindful to allow players to enjoy many pieces of the game at their own pace. I'm hopeful they'll continue to empower blue mage, and make the experience smoother (ie not things like having to go to max level with few to no interesting spells so you can then unsync low level content to actually become interesting), to help fill in the gap that their rebalance will be doing. They said unsync will be harder, not impossible, and it makes sense they're doing this if they're trying to make a more consistent gameplay experience (well they also said it was to prevent bugs in their code as numbers were getting way too high), I assume/guess part of this is also to improve healer experience since the growth rate is strong enough healers usually become near optional in any competent party in non-hardcore content. I guess luckily for healers there are not always competent parties in DF lol, but I've played healer in some of the normal dungeons and literally only used oGCDs to cure, rest of it was just spamming my few damage spells.

WoW bad, FFXIV gud

plz upvote thx

[Gameovers]

They do care about the game, yes.

Yet ultimately they're a business and have access to some of the best PR firms and tactics in the world.

One might even be inclined to suggest that there's a lack of healthy competition where the MMO market is concerned, too. That may or may not change in the future.

you're mistaking the Devs for SquareEnix the parent company. I'm just comparing devs to devs and we got the better end of the stick by far. Go watch any wow content and all you'll get is everyone complaining about things we don't have to worry about. I'm not saying XIV is perfect.. it's not by far. But looking at the big complaints here and comparing them to WoW's... we got it good here.

THAT doesn't mean I'm saying don't voice your opinions. ALL I'm saying is it's easy to forget how nice you have it when you're only living in your bubble. I'm actually shocked WoW is getting away with this so bad. You'd think if it's THAT bad people would've left already. Like Asmongold is still playing yet all he does is complain about how Blizzard is fucking him in the ass.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Wait, what conversations have we had about... bunny hats?

As in bunnies being unable to wear hats.

[Puremallace]

I'm his worst nightmare.

I have been doing forum pvp long before you were born. You stand no chance.

[ItMe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbgsdceE3l8&t=1316s

This was one where he was particularly scathing, but I will let you look from there. lol I'm not going to go looking for every single vid where he's being salty. He used to sugar coat a lot of things. Not anymore. It's easy to tell that he has fallen out of love with WoW, so to speak, but still holding onto what faint hope there is. I can relate because that was me before I left.

Thanks for the link~
Yeah, wow, he's pretty uncharacteristicly blunt about what he's not taken with. It's quite surprising.
Though it's almost comically offset by your timestamp starting us right before a segment where he talks about the veiled market, which he ends with a contented sigh and the words "I'm happy."
What a frickin roller coaster.

As in bunnies being unable to wear hats.

Haha of course!
Thanks~

I somehow didn't make that connection. The wheels in my head weren't turning and the only connection it could cough up had something to do with NIN botching a mudra and getting a rabbit on their head.

[Silpher]

As a old wow vet who did mythic raiding you should be bashing wow. Literally the ONLY good thing wow has is raids, the rest is 100% trash. Not to mention wows devs are riding such a high horse they'd need a custom made ladder to climb off it. That game is a shadow of its former self. Bit sad really but SL content is either nonexistent or trash. Don't even get me started on class balance either, Jesus its bad. Plus the story in wow is nonsensical and downright idiotic.

[Xia_Thas]

Plus the story in wow is nonsensical and downright idiotic.

You get a face! And you get a face! ALL THE MYTHOS GET A FACE!!!!

You ready to meet just a NE model Elune???

[Silpher]

Hahaha, na I'm ready to watch a demigod (malfurion) lose to undead b's boy toy again... cus that makes sense xD.

[Imora]

As a old wow vet who did mythic raiding you should be bashing wow. Literally the ONLY good thing wow has is raids, the rest is 100% trash. Not to mention wows devs are riding such a high horse they'd need a custom made ladder to climb off it. That game is a shadow of its former self. Bit sad really but SL content is either nonexistent or trash. Don't even get me started on class balance either, Jesus its bad. Plus the story in wow is nonsensical and downright idiotic.

The raids are why I still play it, and why I'll be playing 9.1.

As to if I stick around after that, well, the raid needs to be good.

I won't raid here. I can't make EU raid times(I prefer mornings, in wow I play oceanic) and it'd be hard to find a static so I don't think I will here. I hate pugs.

You want wow class balance? I play moonkin. Go figure, they're getting gutted.

[Xia_Thas]

Hahaha, na I'm ready to watch a demigod (malfurion) lose to undead b's boy toy again... cus that makes sense xD.

Who would win? The strongest Archdruid the world has ever known and his wife the living embodiment of a Goddess' Wrath.

Or a guy with a bow.