Why I'm Making the Switch from WoW to Final Fantasy 14

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The title says it all. This video is all about why I’m making the switch from WoW to Final Fantasy 14. I have already effectively made the switch but now is when I really go into why. Activate confirmation biases as I explain MY reasons why I am quitting on the day of Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination!

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  1. Hey all. Just wanted to thank you guys for watching this video and my other content as well. I hope to be able to bring more content your way.
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  3. Don't let nobody tell you Lala's aren't savage I had a lala dk everyone laughed and called me cute typing look at the patato pretending to be tank

    But I showed them I showed them all I put on Linkin park crawling ignored chat and pulled half the dungeon without breaking a sweat muhahaha was no longer called cute

    Fear the tato fear muhahah

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  9. the mission table was a Warlords of Draenor creation… which had two variations of the mission table design. the regular mission table and the "naval battle" mission table where you would lose ships if you lost.

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  13. I enjoyed your "rambling", I found it quite coherent and well thought out. Clearly you have spent a lot of time reflecting on this, which is understandable given the financial, emotional, and time investment you have put into World of Warcraft over so many years. I'll never forget WoW, but in this state to me it is wholly unrecognizable from the game I played and loved for so many years. Most of all, I'm just glad you're enjoying yourself and having a chill, rewarding and fun experience in a different game. I recently made an Aether alt for PvP, maybe I'll check out Misunderstood on Gilgamesh. Thanks for posting this summary of your feelings, I thought they were so on point and relatable. Cheers!

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  17. Hey man how are ya? Hope you doing well , i was watching your drk gameplay and even though you are doing good there is one thing you can add to your toolkit when doing lower lvl content . As you probably know DRK is very mana dependant but not so much at lower lvl (we only get our main defensive cd The blackest night at 70) so you really dont need to save up on your mana . So just spam your Edge of darkness at will in lower lvl content 😀 and also keep blood weapon on CD . 😀 No ill will meant just wanted to help a fellow DRK .

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  18. There are certainly times when they try something in FF XIV and it doesn't work, the Diadem comes to mind, that was fun at launch but when people figured that in this giant zone, the best strategy is to just move from these specific two islands back to back for the whole duration of the Duty to get the most amount of drops, it became a mind numbing grind and Diadem got pretty much abandoned by the community. They tried to revamp it later on but that pretty much failed too.
    Now the cook part about FF XIV is that… This side content? You can ignore it, you can say "you know what? I am not doing this grind" and you'll be just fine if what you're looking for in the game is say Raiding. To a long time WoW player it may seem absolutely insane how much this game values your time. I mean the devs said it, they don't mind you taking a break from the game and coming back when there's more. That's pretty much unheard of in the MMO scene.

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  21. I am actully drunk and a non english native speaker
    Plz dear God keep wow alive
    I just cant bear the fact that a weeb game as FF14 is taking over my favourite (yet decaying) game
    I am being non objectiv but i’m despaired
    I spent to much time on WoW i just can’t let it go
    FUCK I AM LOST

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  23. I'm in the same boat. I started when I was 18 back in 2006, right at the end of Vanilla. I missed the end of WoD and Legion and returned near the end of BFA and was totally hyped for Shadowlands, and was determined to enjoy it.

    I lost interest shortly after Christmas because the gameplay just was not holding my interest, and I found myself resenting being forced into the Maw and into Torghast the more I did it, so for awhile I just focused on my Covenant and world dailies, I even levelled a couple alts, but I kept finding myself stuck when I got to the point of needing the Maw and Torghast for my Legendary and just not being excited to gear up at all, even though it's usually my favorite part. I never even got to the point of running LFR because I knew I would never get my legendary, which meant I would never be raiding, and I would never have an IO score the would make PuGing possible.

    Don't even get me started on the anima grind. There were actually a few Cosmetic things I was excited for, especially from Night Fae, but I constantly felt like I was being punished for trying to progress while also wanting the cosmetics. The anima rewards were so low that it felt painful to use the mission board, buying the cosmetic stuff first felt irresponsible but seeing so many other people do it made you feel left out, but then if you did you couldn't upgrade your Sanctum or your gear.

    I wanted to be the kind of player that could just choose whatever Covenant I liked best, but I felt compelled to go with BiS and the fact that it was so hard to switch and the anima grind was so painful it never felt plausible to play alts or enjoy the Covenant system the way Blizzard clearly wanted me to.

    The wait for 9.1 was awful, but when I logically thought about what that would mean for the expansion going forward, I realized that I would be in the Maw and Korthia and Torghast for the rest of the year because I don't expect 9.2 until 2022.

    Compared to FF, that just does not sound like fun. 9.1 content did not exactly blow me away, and I am sick to death of bland, rocky grey/brown zones. It all just feels so lackluster compared to the vivid variety and strong narrative in FFXIV.

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  25. I'm so tired of Blizzard, they really need to learn a hard hard lesson. I've played since vanilla, and I don't think I've ever seen an expansion as worst as Shadowlands. If any veil needs shattering its the fucking echo chamber the devs circle jerk in. WAKE UP its time to realise that the ideas and systems you guys constantly come up with have one place they truly belong, in the fucking trash. Kick your fucking egos the the curb and listen to the players or lose them. Oh wait, its already too late.

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  27. It's not a mistake, or even a mechanic… It's a business model.

    And it's finally happening, wow is failing, it will either change to recapture players or die because there is finally a cheaper drug on the table that gets you even more high…

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  28. I think one of the things that make it very obvious the care that the dev team have for FFXIV is that a lot of them play the game on the regular. And I mean that as in, you can actually hang out with Yoshi P in game and raid with him because he plays it often (he's a Lalafel who mains Black Mage, take that as you will!). And that means that the devs not only are making the game as a dev team, they are developing the game as players. Players who are active in the game and the community and that are making the game that they want to play as well.
    And that gives it a whole other layer of passion and dedication behind it. There's a huge difference between making a game for the sake of selling it to as many people as possible, and making a game for the sake of playing it and enjoying it, on top of wanting to sell it.
    Hell, you can see how much they care about you as a player in the live letters and the fan fests and with every interaction they have with fans!
    Granted, I am not a WoW player so I don't know really how the dev team at Blizzard interacts with fans.
    But I will say this: while I see this wave of people migrating from WoW to FFXIV, I don't see many, if any, making the jump the other way around.
    Either way, welcome to the community my fellow Warrior of Light. May you ever walk in the light of the Crystal!

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  29. I personally got tired of farming resources just for every expansion or even next major patch wouldn't matter,hours and hours lost, one day in Shadowlands I said fuck it and went FFXIV , 2 months and I've been playing it at my own pace and it's been a good ride

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  32. I've just started playing FF14 for the same reasons as you, I still have airtime on wow till September but I login and can not force myself to do anything anymore, it's just not fun but a hard grind. My husband is also following me into FF14 for the same reasons. We both started in wow when Cata was coming.

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  40. To FF people not familiar with WoW, this is how progression feels during content drops: imagine having to regrind your relic weapon to max stage every time a patch hits, so that you are competitive in the endgame. And then imagine having alts and no progression shortcuts for those alts.

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  43. wow is a pay to win game no joke. the gold crafting you don't have the time. it's funny they are forcing you to pay money in game gold. it feels like a mobile game. reminds me of yugioh duel links but worse they don't give you gold. lmao XD and i thought konami was worse

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