Quote Originally Posted by FelixDaCat View Post
I would have never known about FF14 if it wasn't for the NoClip Documentry done for Stormblood.
That documentary, while entertaining and in some ways illuminating, has always been a bit weird for me. While it's right on the money about a lot of stuff, it's weird how they copy a lot of the old soundbites and scapegoat lines rather than going for a deeper understanding and therefore seem to miss the points experienced by a lot of its players.

Looking at this, it feels really weird that I could go from serious raiding and PvP (and now a tremendous love for high-key Mythic+ dungeon runs) to 1.x and actually quite enjoy it. That is, until I remember that not everything in that doc is sufficiently accurate, precise, or pertinent to really get a picture of what 1.x was like, and there's a tremendous difference between entering an experience with (negative) expectations around which to anchor that experience (again, negatively) and just taking it for what it is.