Quazii addresses the most common question since Final Fantasy XIV resumed digital sales on 25 Jan 2022 – should you play FF14 in 2022, and is it really too late?
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I just got a friend into FFXIV. I made a new character and we're going through ARR(second time for me). He loves it and we're only 20 something. A lot of people bash on ARR but it actually still holds up
We saw sooo many spouts in the starting zones and all throughout the 3 cities. There are still tons of new players playing for sure and its great
Shadowbringers right, I’m excited when new people play Shadowbringers. But I have a hard time watching people play Endwalker. It may sound petty but I’m honestly jealous that people experienced Endwalker for the first time, or anyone who can play ARR to EW in one go. I have a 2nd alt in OCE and I will play my 3rd playthrough through that alt… someday. (My 1st alt stopped after Malikah’s Well)
Playing FF14 now absolutely worth it, especially when you can run through the whole saga from beginning to end.
Shoot. I'm early.
Preach aka Mike left World of Warcraft for FF14. That's all anyone should need to know.
game is definitely timeless – i just hope there's a way to play this offline, if and when the last of the server is shutdown for whatever reason (doubt it'll happen in the near future, especially considering even ffxi is still around)
Since it's free through HW, there's no reason not to give it a try for someone who's interested. Also, there is a HUGE amount of dialogue in the MSQ. You're probably just straight-up reading dialogue for 70%+ of the time you're "playing" while going through it. If you don't like reading dialogue for 5-15 mins at a time for each random quest you get, you won't like this game. I will say the pause/auto-play/speedup/slowdown for dialogue are fantastic for QoL.
That said, I really didn't enjoy EW and found the game's story peaked in HW. I played through the MSQ between October 2021 and a week ago (250 hours of /playedtime from character creation to final credits) and there are just wayyyy too many "MMO-isms" infecting the MSQ. What I mean by that is time-wasting fetch-quests that feel like sidequests but which are forced on the player in order to progress to the actual story. In that same vein, there's a lot of obvious filler quests – and the worst ones I found in Shadowbringers and Endwalker (but that might just be because everyone claims the story is so great there and my expectations were off).
Every content creator out there will recommend this game, but I honestly would advocate for dropping it if, like me, you're interested in a fantastic story and it's not cutting it/taking too long with its filler content for you. Highly recommend reading a book or something to get that story fix rather than attempt to get it through this game. The story IS good when it's good, but, again, there's easily 80% of the MSQ that is really not good, and just straight up unimportant filler.
Give it a go if you're interested, but don't force yourself to play it/continue to play it if you think "it'll get better in Shadowbringers/Endwalker", it's literally the same MSQ gameplay loop as the other Xpacks' MSQs consisting of the barest trickle of actual story and 80% bloat/boring & timewasting filler.
Also, bit of a tangent, but I really didn't feel anything during EW. Story seemed super derivative and the "ending" plot was mediocre at best.
Have a great long weekend. And happy CNY.
I am torn between moving to OCE.
yo quazii what is your take about some viewer forcing streamer to keep stream the viewer favorite game ex : asmongold , because i keep seeing something like that in his chat keep telling him to stream the game , but on the other side he is not a kind of people that stay only on 1 game since he try other mmo after blizzard keep making mistake (this is just a random topic maybe you interested to talk about it or make video about it and since there is an interview about yoshi-p talking about give the new player their freedom to play the game with out being control by other people , because zack just lost one of his family member too)
I started in August last Year, it's never too late, rather, it's just right, I get to enjoy the years of content nonstop, it's like binge watching a whole tv-series, I love it.
Fruit moon t-shirt… maybe S. Jastice really did get that Factory Of Moon Oranges update for World of Fruitbowls.
Just finished Stormblood after playing for 3 months. It's awesome, everything is fresh eventhough it was made years ago. and I still have shadowbringer and endwalker. I don't need to worry about finishing 1 week faster to get extra gacha chance on equips.
Leveling every job meanwhile.
I started properly last year! Yes, BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
If you are an mmo fan and you havnt played FF….. like bro
Short answer: Yes! Download it and play NOW 😜
Bottom line is it's NEVER not a good time to get into FFXIV because the game respects itself and it respects you. Unless you literally can't buy it lmao.
As Justice wearing a moon + fruit shirt ?? Are we going to the moon next expansion ??
If anything, now is the perfect time.
A full complete story is the least of your worries, with Endlwaker, FF14 is now more ripe than ever before.
There are too many things to do. Just know that the game has something for every player.
Join the largest online party ever since WoW's launch in 2004… but now it's in Eorzea.
I'm really expecting quiet and peace play experience from island sanctuary and side content since my play time became something like an hour a day with all my IRL things. I was years ago "hardcore playing" in Wow first then FFXIV there is such a huge difference between those two games………even after 15 years as a retribution Pal..or assass rogue…… Fortunatly my life changed , we grown up and our vision of gaming changed too 😉 IRL took away some playing time yes but for good 😉 😉 😉 I became Father and that's the best MMO ever, promised !!! and should the people play FFXIV in 2022 ? OF COURSE YES !!! we have the confirmation than we still have at least 10 more years to come with such complete game, it really became common sense for me now ! Have a nice sunday fellows !
#crywalker #theykeeppullingmebackin
new player want to play final fantasy 14 but there is no free trial 🙁
The later you join, the more stuff there is to see and experience. Just don't rush yourself, slow down and enjoy the ride.
Also another thing to add, how wonderfully easy it is to get and use consumables. Food that lasts after death, and potions to push for kills, other then that you're good. No flasks, pots, food, runes, leather patches per fight. End game is very unique "dance" to do and really sharpens the memory to know when things happen.
I would love to try ff14 free trial if only I knew when they would offer it again….😓
The enthusiasm is great, but let me share some stuff with you:
First, I am talking to those who are in most cases the people commenting, which do not speak Japanese.
Then, if you start playing FFXIV today and try to ironman or powerlevel, or normal level, you character, be prepared to wait in line a ton of time until your duty gets through in the mandatory MSQ ones. I usually lazy thread through my last 2 level ups, and forgot to turn on the japanese and I got unending waits for lower level content until I simply turned on Japanese, and then it was almost immediate. However, polite and very understanding the Japanese, and FFXIV community is, in general, I know some people like to understand what people are saying.
The non japanese queues for content is so bad if you are not tank, that even Zodiark a few days ago got me qqs I waited for hours twice until I remembered that Japanese is turned off in my client being in english, the moment I turned on Japanese, I just qq and joined.
All that taking into consideration my Bard. Because in my Paladin, English only qq is almost immediate.
I speculate the problem is in the Japanese community, the role distribution is better distributed, but the english crowd is overwhelmingly of DPS, so even if the number of players is not an issue, the role you choose might be.
The early low level content you can pay to skip, but Endwalker you will have to wait or enjoy the company of the amazing Japanese people.