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[Garet]

I alternate between both FFXIV and ESO, personally. FFXIV scratches my itch in terms of combat, though I've been disappointed with the direction of the story for a while now, especially with the excessive hero worship, the lack of lasting consequences for the protagonists, the Scions and City State leaders overstaying their welcome and genuinely compelling/morally grey characters being shuffled away/killed off.

ESO simply has a bigger, more immersive game world to me. I don't like the combat nearly as much in it, though. So FFXIV wins on that front. (Though at the same time, being able to sneak around and steal stuff from NPC's is pretty satisfying and something I wish we could do in FFXIV...)

I do get an itch for ESO from time to time. But last few years I read the cash shop has gotten so bad and server support seems to be minimal hence there is a lot of server lag. is this true?

[Theodric]

I do get an itch for ESO from time to time. But last few years I read the cash shop has gotten so bad and server support seems to be minimal hence there is a lot of server lag. is this true?

I haven't noticed much lag myself. Though I play on the European megaserver so it might be different elsewhere. I also tend to play in short bursts, logging on to do a quest or two every once in a while so I can soak up all the lore/thoroughly explore the environment for each area.

I dislike the cash shop being the way that it is, especially with how many offers are limited in their availability but FFXIV isn't immune to that - it just locks such items behind merchandise with special bonus codes.

The only thing ESO has going for it is 5 main titles, a couple mobile games, some series spinoffs and such backing it's lore up, and I'm not a fan of ESO being canon because it's just absurd fan service and retcons existing stuff to make it's BS fit.

I detest retcons and the lore in ESO is squiffy at best.

That said, the elder scrolls series *is* bigger, if only because each game in the FF series for the most part, are individual stories independent of each other. Never played a FF game? That's fine, don't need to!

To appreciate TES games you need to play all of them. Which I have. Embarrassingly enough.

I guess the retcons don't bother me much because FFXIV has done the same thing - such as the handling of Garlemald and merging it with the Ascian story rather than allowing it to exist as its own thing. Or how there's now suddenly a cure for Tempering and Primals are even less of a threat than they've been for a while.

If one of the upcoming MMO's happens to do well and takes its story more seriously and consistently, I'll likely swap one or both current MMO's out for that.

[Roeshel]

Not much reason really. Just very disinterested with the game and it's ambiguous lore. Thinking in going back to ESO.

Just skip the cutscenes and try the endgame. FFXIV is not all about lore. I myself started skipping cutscenes because too much content is being locked behind MSQ. I initially didn't mind the story and I was watching cutscenes, some were boring others were a little bit more interesting, those were usually at the end of an expansion. I started skipping because I was already level 80 WHM just from doing dailies and I was at level 51 MSQ. For heavenward I watched only those with voice acting. For Stormblood I skipped all. For Shb - cutscenes with voice acting again.

[Tarryme]

Not much reason really. Just very disinterested with the game and it's ambiguous lore. Thinking in going back to ESO.

Can I have your stuff?

Just thought I'd get that in first.

[Fayt1203]

You have to go on the Mog station and go to your account then scroll down you will see it

[TourmalineDreams]

How to Cancel Subscription
https://support.na.square-enix.com/f...22&id=496&la=1

How to Cancel Account
https://support.eu.square-enix.com/f...20&id=612&la=2

While I've never done either of these things, hopefully these links and the other posts are enough to help you out. Just to be on the safe side I would cancel the subscription before I canceled the account. Best of luck!

[MilkieTea]

What ambiguous lore? We're partway through the story still; it would be stranger if there weren't still some unsolved mysteries.

I'm honestly confused what would be offputting about it.

They’re talking about the lore behind the term beastman, I believe.

[Imora]

I alternate between both FFXIV and ESO, personally. FFXIV scratches my itch in terms of combat, though I've been disappointed with the direction of the story for a while now, especially with the excessive hero worship, the lack of lasting consequences for the protagonists, the Scions and City State leaders overstaying their welcome and genuinely compelling/morally grey characters being shuffled away/killed off.

ESO simply has a bigger, more immersive game world to me. I don't like the combat nearly as much in it, though. So FFXIV wins on that front. (Though at the same time, being able to sneak around and steal stuff from NPC's is pretty satisfying and something I wish we could do in FFXIV...)

The only thing ESO has going for it is 5 main titles, a couple mobile games, some series spinoffs and such backing it's lore up, and I'm not a fan of ESO being canon because it's just absurd fan service and retcons existing stuff to make it's BS fit.

I detest retcons and the lore in ESO is squiffy at best.

That said, the elder scrolls series *is* bigger, if only because each game in the FF series for the most part, are individual stories independent of each other. Never played a FF game? That's fine, don't need to!

To appreciate TES games you need to play all of them. Which I have. Embarrassingly enough.

[Elissar]

The only thing ESO has going for it is 5 main titles, a couple mobile games, some series spinoffs and such backing it's lore up, and I'm not a fan of ESO being canon because it's just absurd fan service and retcons existing stuff to make it's BS fit.

I detest retcons and the lore in ESO is squiffy at best.

That said, the elder scrolls series *is* bigger, if only because each game in the FF series for the most part, are individual stories independent of each other. Never played a FF game? That's fine, don't need to!

To appreciate TES games you need to play all of them. Which I have. Embarrassingly enough.

To be fair i feel like the lore of ARR is rushed just to fix the game. Heavensward was the first real experience. ARR is like a big compilation of many elements related to the FF universe. Really excited to see Endwalker.

[Vahlnir]

If I were you I'd cancel my sub but not my account. But hey, you do you.