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    Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Imora View Post
    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.
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