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

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

Jesus, they get all of that for $15 a month? No, seriously. As someone who mostly just plays FFXIV, it's astonishing how WoW still gets new content regularly compared to FFXIV. We barely get anything per patch, which is every five months now. And didn't you and your ilk claim that FFXIV had more content than WoW? And all of it was playable and such-and-such?

Why does FFXIV have to be the MMO that people feverishly defend despite its flaws? I thought WoW held onto that mantle? Now we're the shitty game.

All dead content.

You seem to have missed that entirely, just so you can complain about FF14. It's so bad that players are going back to Shadowlands and refusing to do any of that. As the only active content in Dragonflight is an hourly Time Rift which has more than half the players AFK on the pillars until the Rift opens open for a few minutes of content. Then it's over.

I cannot recommend WoW to new players as the new player experience is horrid and when they get into Dragonflight they're overwhelmed with dead content that the game sends them to. It wasn't bad at the start of Dragonflight, when content was relevant, but now? It's real bad, and Blizzard refuses to re-scale these areas so that new players/late comers/alts can actually do that content.

Not to mention that a lot of that content is super grindy and doing the same stuff every day/week until you max it out. It's not innovative, and with them being dead zones they aren't even possible to do unless you super out gear them.