Why did Asmongold stop playing FF14 if FF14 is so good with a good community?

[Aldath]

You know, I think both the group who thought their favorite streamer betrayed them for stop playing, and the group who thought they stop playing because of the community - assuming they're being genuie (although I think the latter is just trolls) - are just ... naive.


I watched a few of these "ex-WoW" streamers compared FF14 to WoW around 2 years ago and it was ... cringe. Like, I life FF14, but the praise and comparison these streamers had for the game back then was so out of proportion that I was like "ok, FF14 is good but it's not THAT good." So it became obvious to me fairly early that it wouldn't last. One, it definitely felt more like the "next hot thing" moment. But secondly, and more importantly, I felt these streamers were just borrowing FF14 and its community as a beating stick and outlet for their dissatisfaction with WoW. In short and bluntly: FF14 and the more gullible portion of its community was used, as simple as that.

Exactly, very good choice of words and analogy. I was out of WoW long before it went the way it is now, but even in my longest staying period within an MMO, Gw2, the community used FFXIV as a threat. "Things suck here, I'm going to FFXIV". I have to say I was one of the people who fell for it. I hadn't even played FF and I kept comparing GW2 to it because it was supposed to be the golden standard for MMOs.

Look, I went away from Gw2 because of how mismanaged it is, and because of other issues with the longevity of content and lack of future proofing, and people said there was this promised land of MMOs where all my grievances with Gw2 would be forgotten and honestly...We're kind of in the same situation. I'm still enjoying FFXIV and I don't see myself stopping soon, but I learnt my lesson