Finally tried WoW

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Ah, you mean when WoW was still good. Tbh, if you enjoy wow so much, just go play it. No one is forcing you to stay with ffxiv. It's okay to move on.

Ah sure cause that's what this post was about which one was better....As I pointed out numerous times it was a question in why a game 20+ yrs can manage to fix simple things.

Sure I can, because WoW used to not have all those nice quality of life features. Its actually why the celestial steed mount sold very well as it was the first account-wide mount and that having account-wide mounts wasn't even a normal feature until Mists of Pandaria. Similarly with achievements and companions/pets, they weren't account wide until Mists of Pandaria. So for almost a full 8 years of the games life, whatever you got on one character didn't transfer to another. In addition there was no heirloom tab until 6.1, meaning you actually had to store heirlooms as items and make sure not to lose them unless you wanted to pay gold again to replace it and that was 3 years after the prior mentioned stuff was made account wide.

Its partly why people had so many to begin with, as for example you could only have two professions on a character, so lets say you want to do alchemy, well you either went herbalist + alchemist or you had an alt that was both a miner and herbalist and would mail you what you need on your main. And until the expansion Catacylsm, you couldn't get exp from mining and herbing, so you had to level them the same as you would any other character with maybe a boost from the aforementioned heirlooms if you had gotten those.

I personally see people ask why one would have alts in FFXIV since everything can be done on one character, and that is because they provide mechanical benefits that are all related to timers and limited resources. Like if you have 2 characters, you can double up on legendary nodes, treasure maps, challenge logs, wonderous tails, mount tokens, etc. And since a given world can have 8 characters, its that much value from what is normally meant to be limited in what 1 character can do.

What your enjoying is good and fine, just remember that it wasn't always that way and that WoW was more alike to FFXIV in how it handled alts.

Yes I see where you're coming from, but 14 is a game that came way later, it should've learned and be ahead of WoW. Like WoW has done by taking 14's housing system and made it better...