Quote Originally Posted by R041 View Post
It's totally possible. But knowing I can sync all content in coop and run around with ease is good enough for me. Unfortunately XIV makes that difficult and doesn't provide enough open world coop opportunities.

Also considering how the zones are designed in Diablo 4, compared to XIV - They're dynamic and expand/retract depending on activity. So you're likely to see players through the world, unlike XIV where it's separated by individual servers. Also it's encouraged to play through different zones for their unlocks, quests, renown. So there's almost always a reason to go back unless you capped absolutely everything.

It would be AMAZING if XIV could just be 1 NA server, and each zone was only split up whenever it was at max capacity. Unfortunately we still live with an archaic MMO server infrastructure where we have to manually travel to different servers and DCs, so we never know what's actually poppin'.

I praised XIV when it released too. lol
and even back then, it was only praised at the time in compared to its older 1.0 self. It didnt hold a candle to other MMO's if we're going to be quite honest here. I still think FFXIV isnt the best mmo out there but I think thats absolutely fine. No single MMO will ever be that "perfect MMO" and when people try to make one game be their main game well...we get people who lose perspective and start nitpicking about everything. Im glad Diablo IV is giving you what you're looking for, but its honestly not the game itself, its just you playing another game besides FFXIV thats giving you that satisfaction. Ive recently started getting back playing other games (currently trying out WoW Dragonflight) and this actually helped me enjoy FFXIV even more for what it is. It's giving me some wants for what I would like to see in FFXIV but at the same time, Im not gonna act like a pessimistic butthole about the game either.