Get away from our game!

[Ayuhra]

To give honest input about the Great WoW Exodus, there's this: People who stick through the MSQ story into Heavensward will be the ones that adapted to FFXIV being much more story based.

I actually joined this game on a lark, as I am sure some of my fellow Azerothians have. I tooled around on the trial and realized I wanted to play this more than I did WoW. So I moved here full time as my new MMO.

FFXIV seems less polished to me. The long global cooldown takes many Azerothians (WoW players) by surprise and it takes a very long time to adapt to. The user interface is clunky. The server-dictated live state can make this game unforgiving with a crappy internet connection.

And yet...

What I saw here was something we haven't seen in WoW for over a year: Effort! Real, genuine effort! Someone somewhere loves this baby.

I could go on and on about what's turning people away from WoW of late but the abridged version is this: Activision owns Blizzard and has turned the big cash cow into a massive Skinner Box. WoD is very clearly built around operant conditioning and not much else. Lots of players have been comparing it to an iPad game and they aren't wrong. iPad games make a ton of money in today's market and ActiBlizz obviously wanted to use their tricks to keep people logging in. To a degree they succeeded since WoD was indeed compelling. It compelled you to play. It was not at all engaging, however. Many veteran players are realizing there is no art in it anymore, so some leave and some stay because better the devil you know.

FFXIV is engaging. For all the faults I see in it that aspect of it blows modern WoW out of the water. The characters, world, story, content, all feels meaningful in a way nothing in WoD does. So for now, at least, we can be expecting WoW players to come here. Do not expect them all to be jerks or want the game to be made shallow. Some might but lots of them are here because it's different and has the art and love behind it that their game used to have.

TL; DR Moral of the story: WoW players are coming but they don't want to make this game into the one they just left. They want something different to remind them what fun is.

[micropanther7]

Not all WOW players are bad.. I mean. I don't play it, I don't like the style...but don't just assume that because someone plays another game that it makes them not worthy to have around :T

Agree with this totally +1. Unless of course OP, you meant this as a joke post, then it probably won't go down well Just seen that you did, my apologies!

I only liked his post because it was Spongebob/Patrick and that episode was funny lol.

I'm ashamed to admit so did I :/

[Whitemare]

TL; DR Moral of the story: WoW players are coming but they don't want to make this game into the one they just left. They want something different to remind them what fun is.

I left WoW because they killed everything in the game that I loved. First they 'updated' the charcter models, which resulted in case of male Bloodelves in turning them into hulking beefcakes with cavemen faces. So the only option for having a somewhat handsome male character was gone. In wow I had a lot of passion going for transmog (like glamour system in ffxiv) but who cares about the clothes if the character itself looks horrible :C

But besides this the expac is still horrid. Basically you stay isolated in your garrison and wait for the next raid to beginn. Meanwhile you can play around with your selfie cam (no kidding) and ingame twitter integration.
And the worst is the fact that the company still acts douchy towards their customers, even if they are leaving like rats leave a sinking ship. I am one of these rats and I regret nothing about leaving wow just to find out that there is this pearl of a game. FFXIV has everything I missed in WoW.I had forgotten that quests can be fun and interesting! I had forgotten how important in a mmoRPG it is to feel connected with your charcter! I had forgotten that there is more than just loot and raiding!
Thank you FFXIV from the bottom of my heart!

I love the game. I love my charcter. Every now and then I just stand around (while I should go on and quest some more because I want to have such a cool astro shiny sparkly globe T___T) and look at things. At the buildings, the world around me, other characters. I enjoy taking screenshots. I enjoy all these lovely details. Like you have a button for your character to look in your direction. A pet that will lighten you and disappears if you hidet he UI. There is so much well thought things that you will only put in a game if you love it. Blizzard doesn't .. SE does.

Sorry for wall of text but emotion is going on ^^°
And OP you tell me I should leave ?
Uhm... how about NO !

[h0tNstilettos]

If you are from WoW, do not pay attention to people like the OP.

Most of us welcome all players as any intelligent person knows that every MMO has negative and positive players, immature and mature players, etc.

[Snugglebutt]

I am an ex-WoW player. I have no intention of going anywhere thanks OP because I have been here longer than you probably despite having playing WoW in the past. I played FFXI, I have been here since 1.0 of FFXIV and I played WoW for 4 years. I have also grown up playing FF since the first one came out so I feel no need to leave just because you might want that.

[Nadirah]

I came from 10 years of EQ2 and WoW.

If I gave my true opinion of why I left WoW, I'd have a permanent forum vacation. You don't treat customers like that.

I've never been a super huge FF fan, though I've played a few games(not a consol person) and WoW was far from my first MMO rodeo.

From an Asian company, land of the known "grind games", FFXIV is an incredible mix of East meets West, and it feels " right". I hope more see that.

[Waliel]

But I like it here :<

[StrejdaTom]

And what is so wrong about WoW players? I know many of them and they are fine. You want to play half dead game? I don't.

[Balipu]

How about we take all the judgemental people that make social experiences bad and take them somewhere far away from this game.

[Lexxuk]

I think all you 2.0 players should bugger off, let us 1.0 players have the game for ourselves, we're the one who supported it in 1.0, paid our subs etc. then you lot come along and demand this, that and the other, totally ruining Miq'ote butts, downscaling the visuals and all that jazz, so shoo, silly little 2.0 players.

/internet notice - the previous comment was sarcasm. Though adding movement inertia from 1.0 would be awesome.