whats wrong with wow?

[Keith_Dragoon]

the loldrg was post WoW also. I started before WoW was launched.
ffxi community was 100% what i was looking for. Fun community, alot of helpful players. PPl who would help at the drop of a hat. After WoW launched more anti mmo ppl joined and started turning the community into a mess.It didn't need to happen.

Some ppl just shouldn't play mmo, or make them into something that isn't the purose of it. I was watching face off last episode and what 1 of thr ppl said holds true.

When you lose your way just for money, you lost what it really means.

MMo are losing their way for sake of money and pleasing the wrong crowd for mmo. We don't need high school drama in video games. More so from an age group that is 18-50. I never played Eq Eq2 or Eqoa. And what i knew of mmo when I started was community games, that you play with other players and fun. Sorry getting harassed over a play style isn't fun nor is being stalked its a waste of money.

I started when NA launched and I just leveled solo most of the time so it took me awhile, I hated solo but FFXI being completely new to me I was lost and confused until my friends came to play. Funny thing was even during the LOLDRG days when I did worm my way into a party it always ended in "So glad we invited you instead of that DRK/SAM/WAR!" I never understood the sudden hate I mean it went from everyone beind kind and nice to people seeing my class as weak and useless and not even a "real job".

I prefer to play with older players, in every MMO that I played and enjoyed atleast one if not many of the members of my guild were 30+. In WoW I raided with a brand new Guild who weren't that great at raiding but it was fun even though larazhan destroyed our faces, we enjoyed ourselves. In APB everyone in the clan except those in my division were older then me (i'm 25) andeven the younger ones weren't immature, out of all the 3 divisions mine was the most well behaved and successful.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

I know i still play XI but I prefer WHM it was my first choice and it is what I like to do, was lvling brd when the servers shut down though.

LOL half of our abyssea LS got all their boss kills, full AF3+2, 90% of their emp weapons completed and all caturae downed them bailed on the LS

pre WoW that might not have happen.

I quit ffxo recently due to money issies and the fact I had to re roll getting any gear for jobs under 50 ia stupidly hard. And ppl too into aby to care to help. Before WoW iyt was never an issue ppl helped. Not complain about being bored then all of a sudden get busy after they are asked to help.

[Keith_Dragoon]

pre WoW that might not have happen.

I quit ffxo recently due to money issies and the fact I had to re roll getting any gear for jobs under 50 ia stupidly hard. And ppl too into aby to care to help. Before WoW iyt was never an issue ppl helped. Not complain about being bored then all of a sudden get busy after they are asked to help.

You can't blame it all on WoW, SE has been turning FFXI into a easymode circus ride the past few patches, I have never enjoyed merriting at 75 yet now I am 90 WHm with full merits for all my 75 jobs from boring abyssea where I just haste everyone then browse youtube until they say "popping" on vent.

[DarkRain]

lol see excatly what im sayin lol . I quit FFXI got BLU to 90 , SCH to 90 And Sam to 90. Got all abyssea gear +2 on BLU also got all my acceries for blu. But Abyssea was getting old and geting a job from 75~90 ( my SCH ) in 12 hours i kind of felt like i was cheating the game. Dident have the same feal to it. As for EG after my last EGLS all ran off because thay got everything thay needed and bounced i just wondered Vana'Diel killing random things on my BLU solo. Just lost all the fealing for 11 when i heard CoP was nerfed so you can duo or trio it hell solo most of it . I was like really!? wow so my hard 8 month battle finishing CoP and sence of accomplishment were all for nothing. I really Hope this game dosent become like 11 in that aspect.


Also as for this Post. Why are we talking about WoW on a FFXIV forum? I never played WoW only because i couldent get past how much of a saturday morning cartoon on crack it looked like , probaly why Mr. T likes it idk?

[Keith_Dragoon]

I'm done with this topic after this post, its just gonna end up page after page of wow bashing and I usually don't involve myself in the bashing of other games. I'll reccomend WoW to people but I'd reccomend FF over it ONLY because of personal experiences.

In all the time I played WoW I made lots of friends but thats it, they remain "WoW Friends" outside the game they mean little to nothing in my RL. In FFXI however I have made great RL friends, I've went to a RL wedding between 2 of my long time FFXI friends and the EGLS we ran with, I've been to NY and spent a couple days hanging with a friend from my social LS and his family. Hell I even have friends in China(not RMT) and Japan that I planned to visit next year.

[Celyia]

Sorry getting harassed over a play style isn't fun nor is being stalked its a waste of money.

Stalking happens anywhere. That's dependent on personality-type, not the MMO. =P I've had three cases of serious problems on FFXI - one going as far as for a fellow flying to an airport he had heard I was eventually going to fly into and waiting there. For an entire week. He wasn't even quite sure what I looked like, but little things like that didn't stop him. He "knew" he'd know me when he saw me. Fortunately, it looks like he never saw me.

But the thing is, those incidents could have happened anywhere. It's one of the dangers of being on the internet - sooner or later, you're going to run into unstable personalities.

By the bye, in my last few years on WoW (playing on an infamous RP server, nonetheless), I have never had a problem along those lines at all.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

I highly doudt ozzy osbourn or mr t eveb Play WoW. It was just for show on how popular it was. And I know. Idm ffxi and how user friendly it is. As i was an off set up. melee rdm etc.... But ya it got easier cuz well the cry for it got louder then the actuall mmo players. The anti mmo crowd are infact taking over mmo. And making them into kiddy games.
Games should be fun and easy to jump into. But... should only be tailored to its audince of choice. NOT seek out other crowds just for $$$$

[Chardrizard]

i see nothing wrong with talking about another MMO on this site, if anything there are some constructive comments that might improve XIV, the Devs can always take few best aspects of another MMO, hopefully they can just ignore the white-knights though.

Games should be fun and easy to jump into. But... should only be tailored to its audince of choice. NOT seek out other crowds just for $$$$

whatttt? obviously generating more money is the best interest of a company and not only it is beneficial for the company, it is also beneficial for players as they can push updates even faster, better server stability with more $$$ in their hand.

[Amsai]

In response to the OP, It would probably have been eaiser to ask "Whats not wrong with WoW?".

........ not that FFXIV can talk right now, but I see FFXIV getting better, WoW was doomed the second it was thought up.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

excusews are not good celyia... :/

but ya I was trying moon gaurd out as lvl 1 since WA was full of "tavern" fights. everyone wanted to run tavers and all rp was in taverns..... >.> ya................

I was lvl 1 and just checking out the server. I made my way into stormwind (as usesually is the hub in WoW for ally side) ( this was just after the summer event last year nearing brewfest) I saw an opt to role play. The town was attacked by some horde guys. And i just ducked in the garden pub. I came out asked if they was gone. Then all the higher levels encircled me and bullied me calling me a Wh#re, street trast, horde spy, a Horde Wh#re. All because I was level 1 and human female. I was just testing out the server after getting my account back on after it was hacked years before. (i had quit due to play time) I took this to the server forums and pretty much ppl made excuses for it and I found myself on a 3 day ban. Yet eveyone else was ok. : /