Are you here because you hate WoW or love FF14

[Renalt]

Played both. Love both for different reasons. Yes it's possible to love both.

[WeebPolice]

Is this the titanman everyone speak of?

What is this bush league GIF file? You gotta increase the size of that.

Me trying to see that thing:

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Played both. Love both for different reasons. Yes it's possible to love both.

Best Comment Here.
Play what games you like, every game has its Pro and Cons.
Theres nothing to Defend, I simply like the game more then WoW. I pay to play it, because I enjoy it.

[Nebelheim]

I been playing since 2013 long before the wow exodus and enjoyed and played the series since the original ff77 came out and still enjoy aspects of ff14. But i also enjoy playing other games on the side as well.

[Daddyslittlevampire]

I am here because I love Final Fantasy, I'm not a massive fan of what Yoship has done to Final Fantasy these past years. I understand why he is doing what he is doing, I miss when Final Fantasy had complexity, I miss farming for the right things to steal. I get a lot of newer Final Fantasy fans do love Yoshi and all these changes are for modern MMO/games However I think modern gaming has become a horrible experience not about skill in gaming, but all flashy sets dumbing down combat.. I wish they would return to how they use to design games, I don't like this modernization, I personally don't think its good for gamers or society in general. I believe that it encourages staying stupid and not learning and adapting, not archiving reading skills. Doesn't encourage going from noob- to pro ladder, which makes long-term gaming extremely fun. This new philosophy in gaming I personally in my opinion is horrible not just for gaming, but also for the gamers. Game makers be it Blizzard or Square Enix Don't seem to understand that we are supposed to struggle to overcome the struggle and work our way up to being as good as we can. No game makers anymore make games good at all, the last really good game came out over 12 years ago. Games since then, have been about hand holding, and handouts they want you to feel a momently joy that will fade as time passes. I disagree with that philosophy Everything should start at a maximum level 50, We should have tons of skills and grow and adapt and learn what ones works for US, not a brainless easy 1-5 combo that every class follows. Also, I'm not even excited for Jobs Final Fantasy may add any more. In Stormblood we had the best and most amazing fun job in AST, but they ruined what made it fun with the old card system. Both Blizzard and SE seem to be anti-fun companies, I know when they add the new jobs they will disappoint me again just like they have every expansion. However I would like thank SE for teaching me to never be hopeful and excited for future jobs and job changes. If I'm being honest I mostly play out of loyalty to the final fantasy series, I do dislike what has become of gaming so much.

[Myrany]

I loved WoW until it became something very different from the game I loved. It took me awhile but I simply realized I wasn't having fun anymore. So I took my happy memories and moved on. I don't actually hate WoW. If you hate you are still bound to the thing you hate. It was when I hit total indifference towards it that I knew it was time to go.

I do love FFXIV and am enjoying the heck out of it. Even so I always play multiple games at once. Usualy 1 MMORPG and several in the survival genre.

[SquishyPlushie]

Real talk is how many forum accounts does that person have? I'm assuming at the very least to circumvent the daily post limit.

I see WeebPolice / SophiaDL / FenyxRising are the same person.

Yes clearly everyone is Titanmen, including you. You are also WeebPolice and FenyxRising.

See how that works ? I can make ridiculous statements too.

That's a very cool and legal non-answer deflection you've got there.

[CidHeiral]

I played from vanilla beta to the end of Wrath, then would periodically try to come back only to find the game getting worse and worse. For a long time I would have said WoW was irredeemable garbage, but I picked up the Dragonflight expansion on sale a month or so ago and now I would say it's alright but just not my cup of tea.

WoW certainly has its strengths. I much prefer the world being one huge zone and WoW zones have so much more detail and personality than FFXIV (although that appears to finally be addressed in Dawntrail). The playable race variety is light years beyond FFXIV as well. But overall running around in Dragonflight definitely cemented that I much prefer FFXIV, especially when it comes to the combat. WoW classes aren't pruned to nothing like they were for a long time which is great but they're still pretty dull to play compared to FFXIV.

Also they ruined my tauren resto shaman alt's casting animations which I can never forgive.

[Hurlstone]

Why is it that so many people who defend FF14 non-stop don't actually like FF14, they just hate WoW

Well thats a blinkered take if ever I read one.

I first started playing WoW around the time of BC, but did not get into it until WotLK. From then on I was a regular player until, must be the start of Warlords? I have no hate for it though, I just prefer FFXIV in terms of gameplay and in particular lore. I can see why people still enjoy WoW, its a vibrant world thats fun to play and explore, and I actually love the lore too… its just the game itself did not really put it as a priority haha. Too much is put in outside media for my liking, not to mention the direction it took some of my fav characters. Still, who am I to judge peoples preferences? Most media is subjective anyway.

[Fyrebrand]

Played both. Love both for different reasons. Yes it's possible to love both.

Yeah, this is about where I sit. WoW was my first MMORPG and I played it for years. It was a great time, especially because all my friends played too. Then they all quit sometime during Cataclysm. Mists of Pandaria didn't exactly look great to me, so I quit as well. I went back and fooled around in WoW a few times since then, but it never lasted very long. I'm not sure how I feel about their "timewalking" mechanic, where you can basically skip around expansions and level in whatever content you want. It sounds good on paper, but it makes me feel like nothing I'm doing is even "real" and that my character doesn't really have a journey. It's just a method to get xp and level up before abandoning it all and moving on to the current expac.

I prefer FFXIV way more than WoW currently, especially in terms of the story, characters, setting, etc. But, there are other things I think WoW does better, like classes that have specializations within them, and talent trees. I'm also just an alt-oholic who likes to have lots of characters, which doesn't really work in FFXIV.