Mein black-mage. I started enjoying FFXIV because it's far from a hard game and the visuals , enemies, landscapes were just gorgeous to look at. Class rotation was all about weaving and all classes are a DPS, healers sometimes heal and tanks pull damage away but you all must chip in.
In FF14 you still have genders in character creation, no "body type 1&2". I also don't remember a single gay relationship in the story. There seems to be a policy for all NPC to not have relationships at all. So the player can ship their character with whoever they want.
Blizzard, or at least nu-blizzard, doesn't know how to do wild and esoteric locations. Part of it is the engine, they need to reinvent themselves again using the same old models from 15 years ago; and part of it is that they don't have the writing chops for a larger than life tale. They are decent at making small stories at smaller hub locations but having them write a cosmology is beyond them. Worse is Chris Metzen's insistence that "Everything Bad is LE CORRUPTIONZZZZ". Why are orcs savage brutes that need an excuse to go raping and pillaging? Demons. Why does a dragon go insane and try to take over the world? Old gods.
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Granted i stopped to play wow on Wotlk and never went back. But today there are better mmo to play around if you are into it. Way better in fact. Is that WOW manages to create a sense of Stockholm syndrome releasing little content expansion and often timegate progress behind useless waste of time stuff to farm (In BFA was Azherite. In Shadowlands was soul conduits.) Then you reach the supposed end game do raids and get top gear. After you got that top gear another patch drops giving you a new raid already making your shiny obtained gear absolutely obsolete to then kinda reset your gearing progression in the next expansion.
Yes, but all the friends I've made and good times I've had with them through this game over the years far outweigh that, as well as any possible regrets about time spent.
You fail to realize that's a perfectly fine gameplay loop. And the reason they can get away with scarcity of content and shitty practices is that the "way better mmos" didn't do that basic part right. People try the other games but majority come back or quit. Pretending the other games are way better but people suck doesn't help anyone except Blizzard.
Doesn't seem the case with modern wow... The player base were declining since before Shadowlands. Hardcore raiders are not the majority of the game either. And you play wow solely for the raiding and when i said raiding i say Mythic plus because the rest is just garbage in terms of endgame content.
I haven't paid for any blizzard products since they introduced the WoW token.
Worgen's starting zone is still one of the better ones in my opinion. Really good atmosphere, pacing and the quests are for the most part well designed and scripted. It also takes itself more seriously unlike the goblin one which is full of "LUL SO RANDUM". If I recall correctly they even explain a little bit of the worgen curse which I was surprised by as I usually expect them to leave that for the novels/comics.
