How A Goobbue Got Me Hooked on FFXIV as a WoW Refugee…



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33 thoughts on “How A Goobbue Got Me Hooked on FFXIV as a WoW Refugee…”

  1. I feel you. When I first went to La Noscea, I saw the peaceful mob Goobbues. The first thing I thought when I saw that big round head was "Can I have one?". Then I looked it up, and there was a mount from the Sylph beast tribe. During that grind there are quests where you have to ride the Goobbue and sneeze on bad Sylphs, and when you get the mount it keeps that sneeze action. That was the first beast tribe I maxed out and it's still the mount I use every single day out of all 108 mounts I currently collected. I did also get the Eldthurs which is basically a red furred Goobbue from Eureka with tusks, and I'm working on getting the Troll mount, which is another brown, fuzzy Goobbue. But I'm sticking to my beautiful sneezy boy. Maybe it's because I have allergies like hay fever but the fact that he sneezes made him even better.

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  2. Mr. Yo-ship! Add playable Goobbue race to the list of To-Do things. Yes yes, of course we can skip Hrothgar hair fixes and female Hrothgar for that. This is utmost importance! YEP

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  3. The very first minion I saw that captivated me was the Wind Up Nanamo. Started as a GLA so I knew who Nanamo was, seeing a tiny(er) version of her just made me go "Awwwwwww" and then I almost split my lip smiling when it climbed on the Lala player's head.

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  4. When I first started playing and was meandering around trying to figure out where to go, a player suddenly traded me a Fledgling Dodo and one Hot Chocolate. I play with a controller and had yet to figure out how to decline a trade (I thought the had misclicked me) nor how to input any text at all.
    And then they ran away before I registered their name and so began my adventures as The Warrior of Stalked by A Small Fat Bird, Also Lugging Around A Delicious Beverage for Reasons?
    Because I had no idea how to dismiss a minion and I thought the drink might be important for later, why else would I be given it?
    This lasted for months before I understood that people being randomly nice is normal in this game, haha.

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  5. I fall in love when i saw samurai and ninja armors, physics details and Susano battle. When i finally started to play, i've found only more and more things to love the game even more like climate changes, cities with people everywhere, emotions in voice actors, themes hard to deal in a fantasy story like immigration, rape, hate, etc. Sometimes a equilibrium between Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings.
    FFXIV is just a masterpiece.

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  6. Notable first impressions can really make quite an… well, impression. I remember the first time I played FFXIV a long time ago (on PS3 even), where I was out in Thanalan when suddenly a player in a magitek armor dashed past me, making me go WTF. It was the first (or second, the battle with the FFII music might have appeared before that) hint that this game really loves to reference past FF games.

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  7. What a cute story. I don't really have a story like that when I started, but I remember wanting to get every minion in the game and spending time in Northern Thanalan camping the Fate for the baby imp and meeting people there. I even looked at screenshots I took then not too long ago and wondered if those people even still play 8 years later.

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  8. Hey, I was captivated by a goobue in Ul'dah, too! …but it was in the 1.0 intro where it goes nuts and kills a certain tooootally unimportant little girll's dad.
    Yeah, Ul'dah may still be my favorite MMO city. I wish it were still its big version from 1.0 (literally scaled up with an extra ring around the outside), but I still love this one cuz it feels more populated and at least double the fps hahaha. Some days I find myself staring at its glittering spires or enjoying the music I've heard 748392749823 times…Limsa and Gridania feel similar nostalgia and I still stare at them sometimes, but Ul'dah was always my favorite. I remember I made a Dragoon first because I loved DRG and DRK in FF11 (and FF4!) and I was so sad I couldn't start in Ul'dah, but glad to join the Flames to be part of the city.

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  9. When in limsa hearing Nirvana.. I was like wtf is that Nirvana? Walked towards a crowd that happened to be watching a band, indeed, playing Nirvana. Thoughts: Yep cool game moment

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  10. I joined during the launch of 2.0 so there wasn't many exploring. Everyone was crowding around FATE zone and it was a mad rush to EXP. Looking back, veterans of those days had a stressful initial days in FFXIV. We were kinda forced to level quickly because there was no such things as Duty finder or MSQ not giving out enough EXP.

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  11. gobbues are the exact same reason i started playing as well. my friend was streaming it and i saw the minion and mount and bought the game that same day. was disappointed to see i couldnโ€™t get the 1.0 gobbue mount -_-

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  12. It's funny how you latch on to tiny things like this in MMOs. For me, it was the Onion Knight minion from Syrcus Tower. I thought he was the cutest thing, and I had him with me on adventures everwhere.

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  13. I forgot you had a different looking character lol. I even switched my character's hair for a little bit around June/July because I liked how it looked on yours.

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  14. Wow similar. I like retro shit a lot. I started in Limsa, and the first time I saw a Goobbue, I was like "hey that looks like a hi-res version of some 8 or 16 bit era monster." And soon realized FFXIV is true to it's jrpg aesthetics.

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