Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
A.) Your chatroom analogy seems very random given how it doesn't describe FFXIV. At all. Heck, I pick very specific raids to run because I enjoy them, and they still pop within a couple minutes. People are grouping up to do things all the time.

B.) The word "objectively" doesn't apply to anything we're talking about here, which is pure opinion. My opinion? WoW MSQ is absolutely terrible - "objectively" - and far, far, far, far, far worse than FFXIV. Heck, it's the enjoyment of the MSQ design and the story itself that made me leave WoW behind completely in Shadowlands and make FFXIV my main MMO. And the actual writing in EW? Right on par with ShB, both of which I found awesome and thoroughly enjoyable.
Nah, XIV is known as the Chatroom MMO with how content drip and housing works. The community prides itself in how unrepeatable the casual content is so they can sit around or play other games. It's basically the meme at this point.

As far as the WoW MSQ being objectively better - It's just because it has actual VA, diverse RPG paths, actual rewards, skippable areas, and better mechanics. Like I said, you can say the writing in XIV is better, but the actual MSQ pacing and engagement in WoW is just more fun as a game. That's coming from an FF vet, I just find WoW's casual MSQ more engaging. That and you can actually play it coop. So yes, it's objectively better.

Now if you took all of those same mechanics, VA, rewards, different paths, and you gave that to FFXIV - Then XIV's MSQ would be unbeatable in every aspect. I can watch the XIV story on Youtube, but I'm here to play a game.