Why does everyone complain about STORY based MMO's?

[Ransu]

Reread what he said



FF14:EW has a score of 92
TLOU2 has a score of 93.

Don't bullshit bro, and don't bring up user reviews when you quoted paid journalists lol.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/play...-of-us-part-ii
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/f...-xiv-endwalker

I'll jump off your case now, but man, don't lie when it can be easily searched on google lul

p.s: if you want to just search of FFXIV itself, it has a metacritic score of 49!
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/f...asy-xiv-online

Meanwhile the user score....lol. TLOU2 was a terrible game and the user score represents that.

Also the final link is of FFXIV 1.0 from 2010 which was a bad game. I'm surprised the score wasn't lower.

Anyways, another thread to complain about those who'd like the MMO part of XIV without being forced to do the story. Show me on the doll where we hurt you.

It's exasperating that kind of threads still pop up even when the devs are currently working on making the MMO aspect totally optional while still not throwing a bone to the people who want to play the game for the MMO it is and not a hundreds hour long JRPG. What even is the point? There's no threats to what you enjoy whatsoever. Just to complain about people who don't like what you like?

FFXIV is a story focused MMO. It always has been and always will be and as someone who also really enjoys the games end game I will always have the same message for people. If you don't enjoy story focused content then you shouldn't play this game because the traditional end game type content will always come second in this game.

[Carin-Eri]

Not THIS again...

We have been over this repeatedly. The MSQ is this way by deliberate design because it has to cater to people of all skill levels. it is STORY content not a savage or extreme. There is plenty of hard content in FF 14 ( and more to come ) that can cater to this miniscule portion of the playerbase...the MSQ is not meant to be a brick wall. It is not meant to be completed "by only the worthy".

Well I, for one, agree with you here.

[Padudu]

Meanwhile the user score....lol. TLOU2 was a terrible game and the user score represents that.

Also the final link is of FFXIV 1.0 from 2010 which was a bad game. I'm surprised the score wasn't lower.

You can search up all the FFXIV and its expansions, they are all lower than TLOU2's critic scores. ;P

And yeah like, I do agree the user scores are different but regular ol' users aren't paid critics lol which was what she quoted before from IGN, gamesradar, ect. That's why I said to not account for user reviews since that's not what's being discussed.

[ZedxKayn]

FFXIV is a story focused MMO. It always has been and always will be and as someone who also really enjoys the games end game I will always have the same message for people. If you don't enjoy story focused content then you shouldn't play this game because the traditional end game type content will always come second in this game.

But XIV remains a MMO and the story being forced, especially with how absolutely massive it is (and let's be honest, through awful questing) will remain polarizing. The game isn't one dimensional and it's a shame that all of this theme park MMO's content is locked behind the story. Regardless, it's not what the devs care about so it's not about to change. This thread is literally just about complaining about people with different opinions that will never sway the game's development. When the devs are already thoroughly catering to the MSQ enjoyers, it comes off as straight up spoiled to make a whole thread not even to complain about an aspect of the game itself, but about fellow customers who are not even being considered by the devs over a matter of opinion.

[Novae]

If the majority of players like to have such content you have no reason to stop them from continuing to like such a thing when your simple reason is to want to play endgame content and therefore to eliminate the essence even license.
Stop wanting generic games that look alike....

And the opposite is also true. Stop thinking FF14 isn't a MMO please. It is, and that's why we compare it to WoW, GW2, ESO or SWTOR and not single player games.

[ForteNightshade]

Thordan and Shinryu both were relatively difficult when they first came out. Shinryu was actually nerfed a few times. All the old expansions had a modicum of difficult content mixed into them, but old content wont stay the same forever. Potencies have changed significantly since HW and SB.

Its just the nature of old content. They'd have to redo things to maintain the same difficulty as when they were new.

Ahahahaha

No, he wasn't. This has been a complaint for years even from people who cleared him on release. He does nothing. He literally can't hurt you even at the lowest ilvl reasonably obtained. Likewise, Shinryu was never once nerfed. People kept demanding he be nerfed but it never happened. Thordan, in Heavensward, which is what I was referring to, was a complete joke. I should know... I beat him, in Heavensward. As did many others, all of whom also pointed how incredibly easy he was.

[HyoMinPark]

Thordan and Shinryu both were relatively difficult when they first came out. Shinryu was actually nerfed a few times. All the old expansions had a modicum of difficult content mixed into them, but old content wont stay the same forever. Potencies have changed significantly since HW and SB.

Its just the nature of old content. They'd have to redo things to maintain the same difficulty as when they were new.

Thordan normal mode was never a difficult fight. Even at HW launch, he was a faceroll. He was an excellent cinematic, but he was never, ever hard. I think you’re confusing him with Thordan EX, which was basically a Savage fight when it came out.

They also never nerfed Shinryu. Not directly. The only “nerf” he got was players getting better gear, since he had no item level sync; and he was released with i290 gear. SB’s item level ended at i400. The only SB content ever nerfed was Orbonne Monastery when they put in the Echo; and Thundergod Cid, which was a direct nerf because people whined about him being hard. Now? The entire raid is a joke, and TGC has to try really hard to wipe the entire raid. It’s easier for people to die simply from not healing Cleansing Strike to full than it is by punishment of failing his mechanics.

Orbonne’s nerfs happened in ShB, btw. The content was not touched when it was relevant.

[Tyjacon]

Reread what he said



FF14:EW has a score of 92
TLOU2 has a score of 93.

Don't bullshit bro, and don't bring up user reviews when you quoted paid journalists lol.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/play...-of-us-part-ii
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/f...-xiv-endwalker

I'll jump off your case now, but man, don't lie when it can be easily searched on google lul

p.s: if you want to just search of FFXIV itself, it has a metacritic score of 49!
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/f...asy-xiv-online

That was the original version (1.0) released in 2010, NOT ARR which was released in 2013 !!

Nice try though.

[Kazhar]

Ive said it before, this forum is a small fraction of a fraction of a fraction of 1% of the playerbase, and as such does not represent the millions who play...you dont speak for them you dont speak for me.

You people sure love to dismiss any opinion you dislike with the same old "muh minority".

Sure, but why bring metacritic in the first place then? Endwalker's user rating is based on 1.4k reviews, which are also less than 1% of the "millions who play". It's less than 0.1% actually.
If you want play the numbers game, don't use such blatant double standards.

Forums are not the whole community, but there are representative of a certain demographic of players. Same for Reddit. Same for Twitter. Same for Metacritic. Same for your server's Novice Network. You can't use one as the definitive judge of quality (which is stupid in the first place, because being popular has never shielded anything from criticism like you always love to imply), and ignore the others.

[Padudu]

That was the original version (1.0) released in 2010, NOT ARR which was released in 2013 !!

Nice try though.

Oh whoops, my bad. I forgot that there was a difference. I could edit to reflect that!

https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/f...a-realm-reborn

Critic score: 83. Still lower than TLOU2's critic score! Oh bummer, what was I trying for again?