Quote Originally Posted by Kewitt View Post
Why ask about a competitor game on ffxiv official forms?
My guess would be chances are better that people who've played one MMORPG might have played the other compared to posting somewhere random.

Personally, I loved the world in GW2. It's very expansive, there's a ton of stuff to do in each zone, the "vistas" are like the Sightseeing Log except you actually get some pretty sweet panoramic shots whenever you reach one. Classes have a lot of variety, and even within a class changing which weapons you use also changes what abilities you have access to. You can also join multiple guilds/FC's on the same toon and switch between which is your "active" guild at any time. There's a lot of good stuff there.

For cons, I'd say the biggest one was the platforming activities. It's very rare a game can get the movement engine just right (WoW is the only one I've played to date where I feel completely in control of precise movement). It felt more like the challenge in GW2 platforming was fighting the engine itself and getting it to register what you were trying to do rather than actually finding the path and doing the jumps themselves. For me, the rest of GW2 was "good." No real cons, but nothing really spectacular, either, once the "newness" wore off. I find I enjoy things like the story and the music immensely more in FFXIV.

I don't know what a few people here were talking about regarding GW2 feeling "inhabited" compared to FFXIV. Maybe it's because I'm on a high-pop server (Greg), but I find the "world" here feels very inhabited and I'm always running into a good number of people wherever I go, even when it's random zones from older expansions.