Congratulations Square Enix! FF4 surpasses WoW this year. (Source inside)

[DixieBellOCE]

Congratulations Square Enix for having developers that treat players with respect.

And now we just need the playerbase to treat the developers with respect and stop modding everything to the point where they end up playing IMVU XIV.

[Avenger]

Not surprised - Final Fantasy IV is a pretty good game, and was relatively recently (re)released as a pixel remaster.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

WoW just keeps going downhill. Their forums are a cesspool as well, with a such an incompetent and lazy moderation team whom only act based off reports. Ignoring the fact that each player character is counted as "unique" on the forums, so players can make level 10 alts and use them on the forum to mass report users to get them banned.

[angienessyo]

WoW just keeps going downhill. Their forums are a cesspool as well, with a such an incompetent and lazy moderation team whom only act based off reports. Ignoring the fact that each player character is counted as "unique" on the forums, so players can make level 10 alts and use them on the forum to mass report users to get them banned.

I don't think you can judge how a game is based on its forums. I wouldn't want people judging what FF14 is based on the mess that is our forums either haha Dragonflight has actually been a really fun time, probably the best the game has been since Legion.

[DragonFlyy]

I don't think you can judge how a game is based on its forums. I wouldn't want people judging what FF14 is based on the mess that is our forums either haha Dragonflight has actually been a really fun time, probably the best the game has been since Legion.

Sadly that doesn't say much about Dragonflight. WoW hasn't been good since The Frozen Throne.

[Jojoya]

Sadly that doesn't say much about Dragonflight. WoW hasn't been good since The Frozen Throne.

The Frozen Throne wasn't WoW, it was Warcraft III. Did you mean Wrath of the Lich King?

[Theodric]

Sadly that doesn't say much about Dragonflight. WoW hasn't been good since The Frozen Throne.

I'd say there's still a lot of things that WoW does very well. It's by no means a perfect game but it certainly caters to a broader range of personal tastes than FFXIV. Both in terms of playable races and class fantasies - I've been pretty eager to get another bow job from Square Enix, particularly one that allows us to tame animal companions and fight alongside them but despite being such a core fantasy trope the archer with a tamed beast is absent altogether.

Then there's the exploration in the open world. Dragonflight added a lot of things to hunt down and find. Whereas the closest thing to 'open world secrets' is a single NPC from the days of ARR that gives you a pair of minions if you bring him a specific item.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

I'd say there's still a lot of things that WoW does very well. It's by no means a perfect game but it certainly caters to a broader range of personal tastes than FFXIV. Both in terms of playable races and class fantasies - I've been pretty eager to get another bow job from Square Enix, particularly one that allows us to tame animal companions and fight alongside them but despite being such a core fantasy trope the archer with a tamed beast is absent altogether.

Then there's the exploration in the open world. Dragonflight added a lot of things to hunt down and find. Whereas the closest thing to 'open world secrets' is a single NPC from the days of ARR that gives you a pair of minions if you bring him a specific item.

You must not be keeping up with Dragonflight.

Here, let me remind you.

World Quests? You better be there at the server reset of you may as well ignore the boss world quest entirely.

Citadel area? Dead. Unless you super outgear it, you won't even be able to do all the dailies there. Good luck trying to kill the rares you summon with keys if no ones there to help you.

Cooking Event? You'll never reach Legendary, as no one does them anymore.

Centaur Hunts? Dead.

Elemental Storms? No one does them.

Cobalt area? You gotta log on at the right times for the only groups doing it or you may as well pretend it doesn't exist.

Winter Storm timeline? Dead. No one ever goes there.

Forbidden Reach? Dead.

The Caverns? Was dead in its first week.

Time Rifts? They'll be dead when the Dreamsurges happen.

Players that come in late to Dragonflight are bombarded with disjointed questlines (So, new players have no idea which ones to do before the other for the story), the quest areas are empty of players, the zone activities are impossible for them to solo so they are told to just skip it. I, like many, requested that Blizzard scale these areas down (as Blizzard easily could, as they had no issue scaling all Mob Health/Damage up by 25% and nerf all healing by 25% - a BAD decision as they did this due to High Key M+ Players and ended up screwing over all the other majority playerbase) and to reduce the grind for them as they're dead areas. That was met with Blizzard being silent and the "white knights" would attack anyone that suggested making things better for other players. Their mindset is that everyone should "Suffer like they did" and "I got mine on patch, so screw you!".

Then there's the WoW Token. It has only gotten more ridiculous as prices rise which means there's no reason to farm or work towards anything that can be bought with Gold. Buy a WoW Token or RMT as Blizzard supports it (Blizzard never removes RMT bought gold, nor bans the Buyers - at most they get suspended. All the Top guilds participate in RMT trade and sell carries for profit. Blizzard knows that they do. They brag about it. Yet aren't banned). I've seen the same Bots trains in the same areas grinding 24/7 and not getting banned until Blizzards 6-12 month ban wave. Then they're back again, as they've more than made their money back to profit and to buy a boost to 60 and a sub.

[ChonkGoblinSuprem]

You really can’t. Game forums are mostly filled with nolifers, RMT shills, and trolls.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

You have no idea how good you have it.