I love both MMORPG games Final Fantasy 14 and Guild Wars 2, and I thought it would be cool to look at a comparison/contrast between the two. I go over key similarities, differences, and reasons to play or not play each game. If you’re undecided which game you’d like to try first, check this out!
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waaa, music it's way to loud…at least for me, hardly hear you'r voice clearly
i stop playing gw2 and wow long ago and looking for a mmo , was trying ff14 and eso they said they both got alot better . Must said ff 14 suprise me alot. I enjoy alot how the game is at the moment. And also as someone that has a hard time sticking with 1 race class FF 14 has being quite healty to me. Eso is a werid game. Tnks for the info
I was kinda sad what happened to gw2, ive been playing since gw1 came out and has been a huge part of my childhood. I left gw2 and never looked back and switched to ff14, after having played through the recent icebrood saga fiasco, it breaks my heart what happened to gw2 from content to story. With ff14 i believe in the dev team , with gw2 i have no faith in arenanet after mike jumped ship, actually both mikes jumped ship tells a lot about the passion behind the game. I dont know when their content will release, i dont know what kind of content they will release, you could get a new raid/fractal/strike? / pvp arena/ wvw update tomorrow, next week, next month, next year or never or they could just put it drm which was a huge letdown in terms of gameplay and content.
Still, generally, GW2 is better especially in PvP.
FF14 player here. Just wanted to comment on the "FF14 forces solo play". This is totally not true. A huge part of the story progression requires you to go through dungeons with other players. The solo duties only account for just a portion the story progression. I would actually say that FF14 forces you to do group play because you can't progress through the story without going through the dungeons
FFXIV is not perfect but it does so much right and a story that is exceptional.
Thanks for your thoughts and comparison.
Next time turn down your background music more, dont want it balanced too much with your voice :).
IMO FFXIV is a fun game and definitely worth dedicating your time into. I only had two main problems with the game when I tried it out. Having to pay for subscription AND buying expansion sucks. If they were going to make it a subscription based game, they could have at least made the expansions free. Personally I would've preferred it if it was a buy to play game rather than subscription based. The other problem I had with the game was in order to progress through the main story, I HAD to play with other people. Like there was no other option but to team up with others. I prefer playing solo at first especially with the main story. Those are the only things I found annoying about FFXIV other than that, the game is amazing and would definitely recommend everyone try it out at least once since I think they recently have it free to play up to level 60.
At the moment I play GW2, mainly because no subscription and the game doesn't force me to play with others (I still do though).
If comparing dungeons between games, I don't think Fractals can be out of the picture just because the name differs.
The only thing that is hurting me from trying to invest into ff14 is the sub. When I could be investing that money to other in game content for GW2 or even using it to buy and try other mmos
I play the demo of ff14 and what put me down was the combat . I really love gw2 combat because it has depth and is very fast pace specially in path of fire and brood saga.
Guild wars 2 is good but got content update cycle which is too long compared to FF14 which is always and regularly updated with new content
Dungeons in GW2 is not really the ething, the thing is fractals and Raids..WTF!, dungeon is not really a content in Gw2 nowadays, so its kinda bias that you compare DG in Gw2 vs FFXIV..