World of Warcraft died because the developers only catered to casuals and world prog

[Larirawiel]

But ffxiv has allways cattered to the RPG crowd first.

Not really. The Final Fantasy crowd comes first, IMHO. I do not see much RPG elements in FF14. For me FF14 is more comparable to a third person loot/lobby shooter than a RPG. You have very little influence to the character progression. Higher itemlevel and some meaningless materia and nothing more. No talent trees, no items with special proccs, no items with special disadvantages, no weapon types aka blunt weapon, no weakness or immunities agains types of magic etc.


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