How good is the game engine of FFXIV?

[kikix12]

It's funny. I hear lots of people talking about how great the character creation in Black Desert Online is. I hear very few people talk about how great the gameplay in BDO is.

Black Desert Online is a game outside of any franchise, so it loses points on that alone, especially with critics. Considering that, the metacritic scores are:

Black Desert Online: 73 from critics and 7.0 from players.
Final Fantasy XIV - A Realm Reborn: 86 from critics and 7.3 from players.
Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood: 87 from critics and 8.4 from players.

Considering that Final Fantasy is a famous, beloved franchise from a developer that does one thing very well, story, the scores show that mechanically, Black Desert Online is as good as Final Fantasy XIV but lacks in the story and brand. That being said, A Realm Reborn was graded by half of what Black Desert Online was, while Stormblood by about 2/5 of that.

So yes, sorry, but Black Desert Online is not a significantly worse game mechanically going by metacritic. I cannot really say personally, didn't play it, but it's most likely just "different".