The new player experience and how FFXIV fails as an MMO.

[Shialan]

but a more WoW approach where you can work on the newest expansion early would make a lot of people happy and willing to play the game.

Yeah, because people don't complain about the story in WoW, how every expansion resets whatever happened before, and it's again Alliance vs Horde.

[KageTokage]

Yeah, because people don't complain about the story in WoW, how every expansion resets whatever happened before, and it's again Alliance vs Horde.

WoW's writing isn't stellar but I will say that it does at least know how to maintain a sense of intrigue and stakes in a way that XIV utterly dropped the ball on with EW by opting to terminate as many story threads as possible without actually presenting anything new in their place.

It kind of fundamentally took me out of XIV's setting once I came to the realization that nothing truly major or world-shaking is ever going to happen when we got through a literal apocalypse without any meaningful casualties or visible destruction in places we'd grown familiar with.