Haru reacts to 17 Year WoW Addict gives honest opinion on FFXIV by Savix
Savix speaks about the failings of World of Wracraft, the hurdles to playing Final Fantasy XIV, and his experience playing FFXIV.
Also, some PvP talks.
0:00 Intro
4:20 Why Savix didn’t want to play FF
6:40 FF experiences
18:30 PvP in FF
27:50 The Feast Leaderboard
17 Year WoW Addict gives honest opinion on FFXIV
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Date of stream : October 24 , 2021
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"The spells looked bad" – WoW player overdosing on copium, as their 1998 graphics slowly hurtle like a snowball or gex level fire ball just disappears on contact in 2021.
The WoW community has a huge stigma against anything they consider "weeb" (and much of western culture now, for some reason, even though, objectively, WoW hit all the hall marks of being a weeby game except for one thing. The only thing missing was that the player was just a random adventurer, and not an actual protagonist in the story.
It all probably comes down to the art direction and character design, probably.
The WoW design is super over the top.
Also, shoulder armor.
8:48 I mean, Yoshi-P has huge as fuck rings irl so I can see why they’re like that in game lmao
Ff14 is a lazy game in the beginning, with slow game play and few choices. It a large barrier to climb. As a gamer that holds play over story. I skipped a good half to 2/3 of the dialog in the story once I felt I knew enough. Combat only becomes interesting beyond 50 hard sell to people who like games for action. 40 hours of run around and little combat and easy combat at that. Hard sell for those that play mmorpg so we can play with more friend in hard difficult content.
Also community while great has an edge to it that's hates people taking a view point opposite of theirs, very discriminating. I think it's because an assumption that everyone is so nice in the game would naturally have the same world view as them and it shocks them when they don't.
I even have more fun AFKing in FF14 than in WoW lol, I live in front of my FC house. I am literally called the "bouncer" or "lawn statue" lol
Not far into the video yet, but on the topic of why people never tried the game out:
I tried to get some of my old Guildmembers into trying FF back months before i quit WoW in 2019. And the answers where pretty much always the same: "I don't have the time to try out another MMO." "The combat looks super slow." "It looks too Anime." "I don't like the graphics." "There is too much going on on screen, too many effects and clutter."
Even tho they noticably weren't happy with WoW, they refused to give up their addiction and even try out another game for a few hours.
Also, what i have noticed: FFXIV was pretty much non-existent for the Internet up until Shadowbringers. What makes me say this? Simple: Look up any video or article from before Shadowbringers, that compares Game X (for example WoW) with other Games of the same Genre in search for alternatives and you will pretty much never find FFXIV among them. Not even listed.
I am a massive FF fan, but i actually never heard of FFXIV until i read a Game Magazine's article about their HW release review. A tiny article that took up less than 1/5 of the page.
The arguments that the game looks "bland" or "it's not my art style" is common from WoW Players. I said it myself back then, and its still what my WoW guild mates say today.
I think a reason is, that in contrast to the WoW comic art style, everything does look the same at first. Like when you leave of a dark room, and get blindet by the light.
Also the trailers, are for a outsiders not nearly as hype as they are for the existing player base.
I guess there is not much you can do, except spreading the good word, and hope that they will follow with the next wave of wow refugees.
I miss heavensward pvp, I had so much fun playing as Dragoon with all the gap closers and cc it had.
with the dude talking about their girlfriend playing new world with them, just be honest and say you think the game is total ass shits and that you would much rather play ffxiv, if shes gets mad, so fucking what? its better than feeling like youre forced to play a game you hate
one change we seriously need in pvp come endwalker is healers "god mode" to be greatly nerfed, we should be able to have a ninja sneak around the back of the enemy flank and dispatch the healer quickly in feast but nooooo theyre practically demi gods in pvp, tanks it at least makes sense
I don't mind the simplified form of PvP at all. I don't think removing CC is a problem either. Getting stunlocked always sucks ass, so if having that power is actually necessary for the PvP to function, then it's just badly designed, annoying PvP. I'd rather have a match between players be about who presses their buttons better rather than who can prevent the other person from pressing their buttons the longest. The real solution is just to nerf healers and ideally the role should not even be about healing in PvP, they should be buffer/debuffer/supporters. Because the current situation is insane.
FFXIV: You either quit the game in ARR or you live long enough to become a walking advertisement.
Yeah.. not that I was ever a "rage-mode" player in WoW, but I do feel like I chilled out so much since coming to FFXIV.. I can just run around a city for hours now and not feel the stress of "wasting my time" with my long list of chores to do.