Play other games :)

[Renalt]

Threw in Horizon Forbidden West. Got turned around, rode straight into a Thunderjaw site, and after a long battle where I apparently didn't have a decent bow with shock arrows or tear arrows, barely managed to bring it down, only to get finished off by a random patrol of Rebels with Acid Bristlebacks. Business as usual.

I played the first one. Never got to finish it because I got into breaking the game and maxing out all skills by about...40% into the story?

I am however starting playthrough #637 of Fallout 4. Doing a punching build. I punch...they explode. It's good times.

[AnnRam]

Yup.

ERP/Mare/Venues / +18 "events" took the direction of the game community years ago.

[Amenara]

Im at work. But you are also talking about a game you yourself have yet to reach endgame yet so you cant try to sell people on an retaining MMO experience when youre gushing about the early game experience. I say this since you obviously brought up the current retention content of FFXIV in defense of FFXI.

I love FFXI but we have to be realistic about it because the current version of the game is not the quality and experience that most veterans remember FFXI for. All I ask is for you to be genuine and fair rather than sing praises in order to color one game being so bad than the other. I never followed the WoW bad, FF good crowd, nor do I think the vice versa should be done.

Honestly I used to be one of the FFXI players that hated how much it had changed since I played it back in the CoP/ToAU/WotG era, but then I tried it out again last year and really enjoyed the changes. It has changed to be significantly more friendly to newer players as compared to the old days (other than the insanity to installing the game), but I do agree you need the BG wiki open to actually get through most of the game as there are a lot of systems that are not intuitive or even you won't know exist unless you are looking at a guide (Limit breaks as an example). That being said, almost all content in FFXI still has a purpose which cannot be said in FFXIV. Dynamis still has all of your relic armor drops which you need to have so you can upgrade into the level 99 version of it, Temenos and Apollyon still have a use as the level 75 earrings are crazy good, Abyssea still is extremely useful for the drops there. That is the big difference on the content-side of things, there is literal years of things to do when you hit max level in FFXI just to gear a single job if you want to go hard into your REAM weapons. That being said, I agree that you should go into FFXI with eyes wide open as it can be a serious time investment if you want it to be, though the same can be said of FFXIV and the time investment for the story.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Considering Blizzard's constant missteps, it won't be a knockout. They just canceled the PvE content for Overwatch 2, which is the only reason why anybody bought it.

Wait, you can buy Overwatch 2?
I thought it was F2P

[RyuDragnier]

Wait, you can buy Overwatch 2?
I thought it was F2P

I don't even know at this point. I remembered the original announcement where they wanted you to spend like $40-60 for it.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I don't even know at this point. I remembered the original announcement where they wanted you to spend like $40-60 for it.

The Original Overwatch was $60, then its gone on sale multiple times as low as $40...from what Ive seen at least.
Overwatch 2 they turned it into a F2P, but I think with the Hyped PVE mode, they were going to charge for that.....and with it now gone, Overwatch to me is Dead.

Thats the ONE thing I wanted for that game to....the events give nuggets of Story and Lore. Maybe it wouldn't have been anything A-MEI-Zing...but it still would have been cool to do a Full-Fledged Campaign. Ah well. It was nice while it lasted. Blizzard just has nothing for me now

[Amenara]

OW2 was free but Blizzard's reason for releasing a whole "new" game instead of a patch for OW1 was the inclusion of PvE content to it. Obviously that isn't happening so OW2 is a glorified store and monetization patch for OW1. Makes even more sense why the lead for Overwatch quit.

[Shinkuno]

OW2 was free but Blizzard's reason for releasing a whole "new" game instead of a patch for OW1 was the inclusion of PvE content to it. Obviously that isn't happening so OW2 is a glorified store and monetization patch for OW1. Makes even more sense why the lead for Overwatch quit.

But it was a patch for the game... its literally just CSGO2 except because its Blizzard people had a meltdown over it.

Considering Blizzard's constant missteps, it won't be a knockout. They just canceled the PvE content for Overwatch 2, which is the only reason why anybody bought it.

Local furball that is treated by the company he viciously defends as second class trying to damage control the pathetic state of the game by trying to downplay other games with factually incorrect information.

[LisSquid]

I'm back from a long break. Refreshed, but still finding it hard to do anything.

After completing the previous tier I was of a mind to put a bit of distance between myself and 14. I'd been playing all through covid, and Shb through EW was the longest I've held a consistent subscription. Lots of my aches and pains I ascribed to overexposure. Didn't care about the patch content or anything after the ARR story wrapped up - so I just needed time to get ready to embark on the next adventure. I'll get over all the little issues I've had, and they will seem very small in time.

So I took that break. I unsubbed for months, because that's what I'm supposed to do, right? Except I'm feeling the same as I did at the end of Asph. I'm still bored with how my favorite roles play. I've poured over the LLs, all communication, and seeing the same problems unaddressed and they still bother me.

May be my last month, but I'm going to poke around and give it my best try.

[Vencio]

Anyone recommend any good PS5 MMO/Shooting/RPG online games?