Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Kolsykol]

I feel ya about wanting to play more, imo FFXIV kinda has the opposite issue where gearing is time-gated and you exhaust what you can get too quickly.
450 tomestones is too little imo, I don't understand why certain pieces like the chest piece for example takes two weeks too.
And I just did P1S-P4S in one sitting after reset then I only really had the tomestones left.

Granted I do want to level professions too and I do enjoy just hoping into dungeons simply playing the game is still fun to me.
But when I weigh leveling professions against playing another game the latter usually wins out.

I think FFXIV has a little the same issue a lot of Western MMO's have imo which is that they focus too much on things '' making sense '' over what's actually fun when it comes to gear.
I don't really mind it too much in dungeons and raids and I do like the raid designs.
But at the same time at least imo I don't find the more generic '' lore gear '' to be all that interesting most of the time, it's just a bit dull I prefer stuff that has more of a focus on aesthetic appeal rather than how it '' fits into the world ''.
GW2 does that really well imo, people complain about '' immersion '' but it's a MMO it turns into a fun sandbox after a while that doesn't actually matter long term, I think most people really don't care about that in MMO's long term and it holds it back.
I don't think that most people would stick around for very long if the gear was all google copy pasted historical armor, maybe some hardcore enthusiasts would but I think most people would lose interest and get bored of it.

The new expansion for GW2 actually kinda has this issue too imo, the new gear looks so dull and bleh in contrast with the overall game.
Because they went for a more '' realistic '' route and took a lot of historical inspiration, it makes some sense on some level but I think they went a bit overboard and it just kinda made it boring.
It has the same feeling as wearing a t-shirt and jeans it comes across as a tad underwhelming and bland.

I've been playing Nioh 2 recently again too, and it's the same issue I have there too.
I can only take so much Samurai armor or historical Japanese clothing.
It'd be nice with something a bit more '' fantasy '' and fun.