Rokien's new thread on Open World.

[Mirage]

Well welcome to Final Warcraft, if this game is supposed to be about casuals then wtf am i even paying for, so far ive seen nothing but more and more of the "WoW" influence in it. I have seen ppl ridiculed because they had sub-par gear and were ousted from groups, and all i can think of is that shit didnt happen in XI that much because the job made you not your gear it just helped, but in XIV no gear = gimpass.

As for open world i would love to see a ton of it, but i'm afraid the instanced route is gonna prevail over all simply because its easier for them to manage. Well I say the F$#@ that they get paid to make a great compelling game, not make and easy to manage game for 4 yr olds i mean wtf cmon SE get it togather.

It's funny how people complain about casuals and warcraft, when:

Many WoW fights are harder than anything in the current FF14. Casuals like it easy, not hard.

Final Fantasy in general has a focus on story, and the online-FFs have tried to do this too, by offering more story stuff than what is common in MMOs. However, an interest in a game's story is a typical trait of casual players rather than hardcore players.

Final Fantasies, traditionally, have never really been very hard games.

So which is the casual game, again? WoW or Final Fantasy?