MMO Comparisons. ^^b

[MawXIII]

Being sick of downtime, i went looking for different online games... gave my third try on WOW but nothing came out of that... tried AION which was just painful to begin with (RMTs were there right from the start) and just trying start TERA was a pain ( downloading patches and stuff is still taking forever), tried my FFXI account again but after playing FFXIV is just not fullfiling enough (still better than previous attempts at online games), right now i have given up and began playing Disgaea 4 which gives me Tons of hours of gameplay, and some handheld games, like FFIII on DS and KH Dream Drop Distance on 3ds...and hoping for a closed beta invite for ARR...so to conclude i just wanna fill dead hours with some quality gaming... but still looking foward to that game that will really fill them...hopefully ARR will....

(First post...Hello to everybody!!!!)

[Alkimi]

tried AION which was just painful to begin with (RMTs were there right from the start)

Tried Aion aswell for a few weeks, levelling is slow I'll agree but there is some content and enough to keep you going without resorting to grinding.

However, imo what killed this game and forced it into F2P is the pvp element. Lvl 1-20 did a good job of keeping it away from you but once you got to Eltnen/Morheim you would be lucky to go 30 mins without being "ganked" by people clearly much higher level than you. The game introduces quests and campaign missions in the abyss from 25+ but unless you have high-level friends to escort you during these it's completely pointless, you won't last 5 mins.

The hardcore PvP crowd said "if you don't like it, leave". And they did in droves. Ever since they've been trying to repair the damage, including making it F2P and recently introducing the fast-track server for PvP-free levelling up to lvl 40-ish. But essentialy the game was killed by a very small portion of the community driving away many potential new players, which is a shame since there's a hell of a lot of PvE content.

And the goldseller spam is horrendous, takes up 80% of the chat.

[debola]

And the goldseller spam is horrendous, takes up 80% of the chat.

I know right!. Ive never once seen someone shouting selling gil in XIV and its SOO common in other MMO's.