Playerbase Mood

[storm]

Ffxi, wow, guildwars, gw2, aion, sw:tor, tera, blade and soul, black desert.

Im excited for the new xpac, I think the eastern look/feel theyve achieved will be a great addition to ffxiv. Im also looking forward to trying both of the new classes.

The best part of ffxiv imo is it has a lot of quality go into their game, rarely does anything feel like it was rushed and out of place. The story has gotten progressively better too, and Im excited to see where they go from here.

The worst part of ffxiv is the combat system. It's slow with a huge skill bloat and yet your character doesnt really feel like theyre connecting with the foe. You press a skill and a pretty light materializes and the monsters health goes down. In a game like blade and soul, or tera, your skill feels like it connects, and opponents stagger, or get knocked down, or knocked into the air based on your attacks. In ffxiv your main dps objective is perfect rotations while avoiding floor effects, with a slew of skills. In action mmos, you have less skills but they have more visible impact, and you worry more about using them wisely and at the right moment over perfect rotations.

But this is a core design of ffxiv. It will never be an action mmo and I play it knowing that and despite that, because SE's p2p game has far more overall quality than any of the f2ps out there. If both are considered themeparks, then f2ps like tera and bns are local carnivals with one real fun ride, and all the stalls cost and arm and a leg, and ffxiv is disney world. Pay a lot at the gate, but everything inside is quality.