How i kicked the habit (FFXIV).

[Iyrnthota]

I thought to post on these forums you had to have logged into the game in the past 14 days?

[Renalt]

I thought to post on these forums you had to have logged into the game in the past 14 days?

Yes. This is true. However I pay for the game and log in at least once every two weeks and I hardly even play these days. I've more fun messing around on the forums ( occasionally being useful if a legit question pops up ) than I do playing the game.

Well for the moment at least. Maybe 7.0 will spark my interest again.

Probably the same for them. Had something to get off their chest so they logged in to say their piece. Probably waiting on their sub to lapse.

[Izar_Chillen]

Honestly the biggest eye opener with GW2 is how active the open world is, people don't just sit in cities, there is always a meta event happening somewhere on the map and people flock to them to get participation awards, that is usually tied to legendary/ascendant crafting.

It's like, having a FATE, that goes for ~30 minutes, taking you around the map and building up to a big event with a world boss at the end.
'Battle for Jade Sea' is the latest endgame meta event, and was honestly breathtaking with how the entire event takes place, with big groups of players setting up for the siege and getting all the preparations done in order to fight the final boss, in a big grand showdown.

Link to a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqJuYV6bz_M

The Mastery Point trains where the big one for me . Once I discovered that they were in some really tough places (some spawning tough as nails bosses) I started paying attention to the world chats i had noticed before as some good clans/guilds run them every few days.

They take time out to help any that want to join and take you to places you had no idea existed (as the maps and places to do things are very vertical from HoT expansions and onwards) and those mastery points are vital to build your character account features (mounts and its abilities) and for your per character class builds.

[Iyrnthota]

Yes. This is true. However I pay for the game and log in at least once every two weeks and I hardly even play these days. I've more fun messing around on the forums ( occasionally being useful if a legit question pops up ) than I do playing the game.

Well for the moment at least. Maybe 7.0 will spark my interest again.

Probably the same for them. Had something to get off their chest so they logged in to say their piece. Probably waiting on their sub to lapse.

That's unlucky, must have got an extended period, or just ticked over into the next pay period if they've gone 3 weeks. Think of the wasted dosh.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Unironically Im very proud of you finally doing it. Now you can join the rest of us who doesnt tie themselves down to one game, even if you plan on never coming back to FFXIV.

[DixieBellOCE]

Yes. This is true. However I pay for the game and log in at least once every two weeks and I hardly even play these days. I've more fun messing around on the forums ( occasionally being useful if a legit question pops up ) than I do playing the game.

Well for the moment at least. Maybe 7.0 will spark my interest again.

Probably the same for them. Had something to get off their chest so they logged in to say their piece. Probably waiting on their sub to lapse.

More like i refreshed my submarine missions in the FC house because a passive 2m/week while im not really playing is fantastic

[DixieBellOCE]

The Mastery Point trains where the big one for me . Once I discovered that they were in some really tough places (some spawning tough as nails bosses) I started paying attention to the world chats i had noticed before as some good clans/guilds run them every few days.

They take time out to help any that want to join and take you to places you had no idea existed (as the maps and places to do things are very vertical from HoT expansions and onwards) and those mastery points are vital to build your character account features (mounts and its abilities) and for your per character class builds.

Yeah!

I got all my heart of thorns mastery points from a big train with like 100 people, the community is so active in the open world

[Syln]

Completely off topic but i read "how i kicked the hobbit" and thought it was about a new sport involving lala.

[Zebraoracle]

Honestly the biggest eye opener with GW2 is how active the open world is, people don't just sit in cities, there is always a meta event happening somewhere on the map and people flock to them to get participation awards, that is usually tied to legendary/ascendant crafting.

It's like, having a FATE, that goes for ~30 minutes, taking you around the map and building up to a big event with a world boss at the end.
'Battle for Jade Sea' is the latest endgame meta event, and was honestly breathtaking with how the entire event takes place, with big groups of players setting up for the siege and getting all the preparations done in order to fight the final boss, in a big grand showdown.

Link to a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqJuYV6bz_M

Man I genuinely wish I could enjoy GW2... Between being absolutely sour that they took the GW1 skin and made GW2 out of it in such a way that it doesn't even feel like a Guild Wars game outside of a few familiar skins (races and map, mostly), and my distaste for the combat... :/

The art and music are nice, I actually do like how charr are handled vs hrothgar, dynamic events are neat, the world actually has incentive to explore it, but IMO the armor/glamour game is bleagh, I despise the living story system they have (you didn't play during this part? Guess you gotta buy it!), the story itself isn't fantastic (I'll give EoD's story was better than any of the previous stories though), and gosh the combat... it was a neat concept but I found it poorly implemented. Back when I last played, I also tried the hardest... whatever mode it was called, the one below raids, I don't remember exactly, but it was one from EoD and you're on that big circle platform. People said that fight should have been a raid itself because it was so hard and... I went straight in and cleared within like 1.5 hours, it wasn't remotely hard? Just kinda killed off anymore interest I had at the time.

But yeah, more power to you, OP, I am a bit envious you can enjoy GW2, my hunger for Guild Wars content will remain starved ;_; There are like, so many things that both interest me and kill my interest about that game, it's so frustrating.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Man I genuinely wish I could enjoy GW2... Between being absolutely sour that they took the GW1 skin and made GW2 out of it in such a way that it doesn't even feel like a Guild Wars game outside of a few familiar skins (races and map, mostly), and my distaste for the combat... :/

The art and music are nice, I actually do like how charr are handled vs hrothgar, dynamic events are neat, the world actually has incentive to explore it, but IMO the armor/glamour game is bleagh, I despise the living story system they have (you didn't play during this part? Guess you gotta buy it!), the story itself isn't fantastic (I'll give EoD's story was better than any of the previous stories though), and gosh the combat... it was a neat concept but I found it poorly implemented. Back when I last played, I also tried the hardest... whatever mode it was called, the one below raids, I don't remember exactly, but it was one from EoD and you're on that big circle platform. People said that fight should have been a raid itself because it was so hard and... I went straight in and cleared within like 1.5 hours, it wasn't remotely hard? Just kinda killed off anymore interest I had at the time.

But yeah, more power to you, OP, I am a bit envious you can enjoy GW2, my hunger for Guild Wars content will remain starved ;_; There are like, so many things that both interest me and kill my interest about that game, it's so frustrating.

Theyve announced that theyre stopping the Living World content idea and just going for buyable mini-expansions from what Ive heard at least.