Final Fantasy XIV Claims Two More Victims, in a Good Way! (@Grinding Gear Video Reaction)



Garret is the co-host on the Instance, which is a podcast I’ve listened to for years, today I’m here to see how he’s been seduced by Final Fantasy XIV.

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38 thoughts on “Final Fantasy XIV Claims Two More Victims, in a Good Way! (@Grinding Gear Video Reaction)”

  1. My story with XIV is different.

    I never touched WoW; I went with City of Heroes. Perhaps it's the nostalgia talking but when CoH was shut down I was without an online community to call home. I enjoyed CoH's storylines. I loved the community that actually felt like we helped one another. SWTOR? GW2? The unofficial CoH servers? Just wasn't the same.

    While playing Marvels Heroes (the Diablo-like with Marvel heroes), a friend started telling me about her times playing XIV. After a while, I tried it out. This was back when the first expansion Heavenward just came out. This was back in 2015.

    I'm still playing XIV to this day.

    I found my new online home. Every community has their bad apples, sure, but XIV's community has been wonderful to a middle aged man like me. The plot from MSQ and even the individual sidequests keeps me wanting more. Glamour is indeed the true endgame, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

    Having finished the 6.0 story within a few days of the Early Access of Endwalker, my friends, free company, and I are looking forward to what's to come.

    I lost a good home only to eventually find a great home, and the journey continues…

    Forge ahead, Warriors of Light!

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  2. I just can't get into Final Fantansy.. I tried i.made a character 1st quest came up I you pretty much have to read like 6 paragraphs I immediately Uninstalled the game.. im not reading a book to play a game idc about the story or even wows story..

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  3. The thing about the separate instance for Minfilia's room is a lot of players were AFK-ing in her office when it used to be a singular instance. It got out of hand because people cannot see the NPC because of mounts and minions. So they tried to "fix" it by separating her room as a different instance.

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  4. seeing all does uncompleted sidequests. really triggers my ocd. i came in form wow and went through the holl ff story and did all sidequests. burn out was never a issue for me. only wished i just started lvling mulitble jobs at the same time since i was way overleveled. started doing that when i reached shadowbringer and endwalker and it worked out perfectly for me.

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  5. Sadly I cannot approve of these guys since they said they were ok with harassment. Even if I myself don't care for the person I can not approve of harassing someone and them saying it was ok to harass I think it was Townsend or whatever her name is. There is no place for approval of harassing imo and I can't approve of people who appove of someone being attacked. When you start accpeting harassment of one person, you may as well accept the rest of it, it's all the same.

    And if anyone may care what I'm talking about, you can check out their video about McCree being named Cassidy and it's in the comments they say it. Not saying you can't dislike the person or have to stand for them or anything else, this just crosses a line for me.

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  6. I've played the game since 2017 and I've done every side quest but I still immensely enjoy the game. I don't get burned out by side quests because I think my OCD kicks in and I find great satisfaction from completing a map and clearing all the (!) from it.

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  7. Side Quest is more about side story around that area. Chain Side quest story is very good and some is sad.

    They gave character to NPC to feel like the world is alive and somehow real.

    Please read the side quest, just fast reading is fine too.

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  8. started watching these guys w/ there final fantasy coverage a couple of months ago– it's been a pretty good time.

    but it is absolutely remarkable, the degree to which the WoW content creator ecosystem has collapsed this year. I'm hard pressed to think of anything like it previously; the wholesale migration of streamers and content creators away from an IP that is still technically living and breathing. As bad as it seems now, the real effects aren't likely to be seen until late next year or the year after, when Blizz is trying to launch an expansion and finds vast swarths of their community support have all but vanished in the space of a year.

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  9. i love that you can play ff14 whatever way you want. I for example needed over a year to even reach shadowbringers because when i did an expansion i did ever MSQ every sidequest, every relic quest, every beasttribe and every raid synced before even touching the next expansion. in fact i was level 80 on 2 classes before leaving heavensward. And I had a BLAST!

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  10. Helping in FF XIV feels good compare a lot of games because you don't feel like it's a chore or you don't feel pressed by time because you have a daily or a shit like that to do

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  11. Oh nice! Glad you're showing these guys off! The algorithm showed them to me when they started their FFXIV journey a few months ago and I've been keeping up with it ever since. Been cool to watch!

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  12. I am a WoW refugee. I felt as though I was in an abusive relationship with a jealous girlfriend who didn't appreciate me and took me for granted . . . I finally broke up with her after 16 years and thought I would never find love again. But then . . . In walks a cat girl with big freakin boobs. She doesn't take me for granted. She makes me feel things I never thought possible. When you're in love you wanna scream it from the top of a mountain and goddammit . . .

    I LOVE FINAL FANTASY XIV!

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  13. I've been watching their progress in FFXIV and it very much mirrors the journey most (toxic?) WoW players take once they play FFXIV, they go from saying it's a "weeb" furry game for casuals to thinking it's one of the best MMOs they've played and suddenly realize they were a copium addict for the past decade.

    Its honestly been great to watch and they haven't even gotten to 3.3 lol these guys aren't ready for the feels.

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  14. I remember these from HotS!

    Anyway, I used to be WoW only up until WoD, where I branched out to try new mmos. I think that taught me in part that WoW has a serious gameplay problem; it actually doesn't come up that often, but I think it is actually far too 'basic' in scope. Not in key combinations or so, but Blizzard doesn't invite you to care about your class enough, only about performance more and more. I think what a lot of people are fatigued by is that performance/balance above all stress factor. I mean, that's literally one of the biggest differences in FF14 – they have very little competitive-centric mentality in terms of the community, because the playerbase is driven to enjoy the game first and look up guides second – which by the way is by design less needed, it just goes hand in hand to shape the FF community into what it is.

    WoW has lost touch of what makes a game and not a time-waster. I think for some, a timewaster is great and clearly the developer agree as all features added in the past few years are designed such, even down to the minigames where you don't notice it as much. Engagement metrics drive design, which is a negative longterm synergy as by forcing players to do repeatable content, at first that looks successful if all you do is read metrics. It ends up alienating all the other players, even those that prefer having plenty of things to work towards over time.

    I think if anything else I am glad that FF finally opens eyes of a lot of WoW fans; it did for me when I tried other games. I don't mean by this to say I hate WoW, I just mean it's so easy to be blind to its core faults, especially now when Blizz is just screwing up as a company and the serious faults might be buried in that traffic. I think they can salvage it, if they realize they have to put the soul back into the game. Find a better balance between good design and engagement. It's harder to deal with the mentality the game fosters in the community, but you've got to start at the core.

    Well done if you got through this comment, by the way. 🙂

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  15. God this is annoying to watch with the talking over it and thanking people without pausing it. Honestly the way asmongold does these types of videos (which are also clipped from his stream). I came here because I wanted your take, but you lost me a third of the way through.

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  16. What u said was exactly my experience, hoping into FFXIV from WoW!!!! A Wow friend bought me tbe game for PS4 years ago. I played it and didnt like it, because of the anime graphics. Well…. mainly because it wasnt WoW….. Last year, I finally got sick of the toxicity in WoW and decided to unsub and quit it. Took up FFXIV on PC and never looked back👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻The story, it is heart-breaking and beautiful at the same time. Looking forward to seeing what Yoshi-P has in store for us, when the curtain rises again🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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  17. I like cleaning all side quest before doing msq in a certain map….it helps with immersion……because usually those side quests tell story about something that is happenning during the msq. If you do them later, immersion breaks.

    By the time I did the final boss, all the side quests available were cleared for me…and I took like 2 weeks to finish all msq. You have time, don't rush to endgame. I also "wasted" time to glam myself for a certain map, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

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  18. It took me forever to give FF14 an actual chance. I think I started the trial 2 or 3 times over the past… idk 6 years? Never made it to level 10. The trial wasn't as generous then and I wasn't ever gonna pay a sub for a game again anyway (lol) so I basically was already determined not to care about it before I even "tried" it. I figured it was good enough if you liked MMOs which I mostly don't. I've always liked the idea of MMOs but none have ever really grabbed me for long, but it killed some time on a weekend or whatever.

    One of my friends started playing it maybe a year ago, then it blew up online a little later and I only ever heard good things. Plus the trial was way more generous (idk if you've heard lol), so I decided to actually give it a real shot a few months ago. When I finished Shadowbringers a little over a month ago I couldn't believe it took me this long. It's almost perfectly made for me. Like even the things I think aren't great about the game are the kinds of things that don't bother me as much as it might other people, and the good things about it make it my favorite game period. And I'm an old man who's been playing games literally my whole life.

    Now after finishing Endwalker, it's not just my favorite game, it's tied for my favorite story too with Stormlight Archive being the other #1 spot. Which by the way, if you haven't read it and you love FF14's story you really should read Stormlight. They're both great for all the same reasons. Great characters and amazing worldbuilding in particular.

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  19. MMO's are definitely more restricted on visuals than a single player AAA title, as there is generally a much higher actor count and each actor is thousands of polygons, if not millions. so they keep the poly count lower so the game can be played by lower end hardware.

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  20. If wows community wasnt so competitive it would be better. Everyone wants to play like their world first raiders when theyre only doing heroic first wing lol. Its a good team dungeon/raid/pvp game but the systems make it a bit rough if you force yourself to do it

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