Length MSQ from all the expansions - it is getting insane

[VelKallor]

Every time someone criticizes FFXIV, you come out and start trash talking other games, then you start to ramble about how FFXIV is a masterpiece and WoW is trash because of X or X

Stormpeaks: My gentle friend, ll be honest here and note that what I am saying is a repeat of what others have told Blizzard for a decade or more. I am not "trash talking", one does not to need to do so in order to highlight and note what others have observed over the years, that literally wiping out content for no other reason than FOMO is foolish..and extremely shortsighted.

The mistakes the Blizzard devs have made over the years are...no pun intended..legion. As far as story goes, Danuser's efforts have made him the laughingstock of many, not to mention the blatant LOTR ripoff that was N'zoth.

That new area ( forget the name..oh yeah Zereth Mortis...) was even more hilarious as Blizzard had actually found a way to timegate........how to talk to NPC's.

"Its water you can walk on"..was supposedly a "brand new feature never seen before"...Im sorry but you cant hand me a plate of McDonalds fries and call it beef wellington.

Their shortcomings, an unending list of mistakes, stuffups, coupled with a tone deaf approach has, I am sorry to say, served little else than to reduce their standing as an MMO. In all truth, Blizzards MMO is a pale reflection of what it once was, and in my honest estimation, needs its own Calamity. A full reset.

Or just tear it down and start over from scratch.

I call it as it is. I am not 'trash talking" when I say that what WOW was, is not what it is now, what is left is a pale imitation caused by what I would honestly state is sheer incompetence. The giants who created the game have left the playground...and it shows, painfully so.

Grow up please and accept that the game isnt perfect, nor is it a masterpiece.

It is my honest and open opinion, and mine alone, that neither game is perfect, nothing ever is. There is no such thing as a perfect game, let me be clear. That said, after having played WOW eight years, FF 14 since April 2019, picking the game up after making my original acct in 2015...FF 14, in my estimation, is the better of the two by several light years.

WOW's story, in my estimation, is a fragmented, jagged and utterly chaotic palimpsest, cobbled together with sellotape, Blu-tack and glue , done by an intern on their first day out of high school.

FF 14's story, by direct comparison,. is cogent, fluid, well executed..and above all..complete.

Something the modern World of Warcraft's narrative can no longer claim to be, by any reasonable means or metric.