Where do I begin? This Journey has been incredible and it is only still at its beginning! Throughout my time here I have fallen in love with how the game has affected my personal journey and experience in this great MMORPG. Please Enjoy My Tale!
0:00 Playing For Free
0:35 Never Again
1:49 Shattering The Notion
3:34 A Fantasy Reborn
7:29 Onward To Heaven
14:13 Reign Of Blood
20:34 The Next Steps
22:58 My Entire ARR Recap
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The shackles are about to drop off too. Welcome to the other side of realizing well shit, this is a good game!
Welcome to xiv then! As someone who been here since relaunch 2.0, its always great to see new player experience even to this day. 🙂 May shadowbringers give you joy.
Welcome to Shadowbringers!
Just gotta say it’s been an absolute joy watching your stream and your journey through the world of ffxiv so far 😀
this video right before 4.56 stream is just chefs kiss
hope you enjoy the ride, Caff dad.
I've seen you on Goblin!! I remember telling my bf at the time you had a goofy name we had a giggle.
ascian is Ass-eee-in
Masayoshi Soken (the composer) is a musical Genius.
Dark Knight is a great story and looks like you are leveling it for your upcoming playthrough 🙂
Take your time with the upcoming story 🙂
One year on free trial sounds like a nightmare to me 😂
I love your content, Caffeinated Dad! Just about every day, I've been checking my Caff Dad notifications, especially now that you're about to reach Shadowbringers (my favorite!). I'll admit that I can be an energy vampire when it comes to this part of the story and you're one of my fav FFXIV YouTubers. It's just so fun watching this story unfold with new eyes. You're awesome, Caffeinated Dad!
Cant wait for you to get to Shadowbringers. Ive been following you since your first video on 14 and Im so glad you listened to Galactic. Shadowbringers is amazing and we actually named our son after a character in it. (I'll edit this to say who after you get that character to avoid spoilers)
I've been enjoying seeing your journey up to this point and look forward the rest of it 🙂
Best to just leave it there. All downhill in the last expansion.
hes not flirting, he is fanboying, people desperate to make it look weird.
1:48 Is funny that you have a preconception of Final Fantasy XIV from WoW sources as a "weeb game". The other games of the Final Fantasy franchise have always been pretty "serious" in their story even if they look kind of weeb. FF IX is the one more weeb-coded but, as a youtuber said:
"Those who play Final Fantasy IX quickly realized that its friendly exterior was just a tiny veiled cover up for the giant box of depression hidden within".
I'm really surprised to hear that people didn't like your first FFXIV video. As a long time XIV player, I thought the observations and jokes you made were hilarious! I guess some people don't have a sense of humor…
Well, I'm glad you stuck with the game and have been enjoying it! The best is yet to come 🙂
Always love seeing another new player ensnared in the best mmo in the common era 😌
Regarding Stormblood and people's negative pre-disposition towards it, there's two main factors. None of what I say here will include spoilers for future content.
The first is the fact that it's a very politically-focused story, compared to the operatic narrative of Heavensward and the emotional grandure of Shadowbringers and Endwalker, and a lot of players who come to Final Fantasy for the 'fantasy' were put off by it.
The second is an unfortunate misogyny issue that a large portion of the playerbase (especially those not used to examining media critically alongside their own biases) suffers from regarding Lyse as a lead character, and this issue also carries over into ARR with Minfilia and DT with Wuk Lamat. All of these characters have very clear male analogies in other media that people love, but sadly they don't see the similarities here.
Something to keep in mind regarding people's opinions of expansion stories is that many people are saying those things from a 'this is how I felt at the time' point, rather than a retrospective stance that takes the full saga into account. ARR may be a very standard story template and be quite slow at points, but it sets up things that are still being paid off in both main story and side content over a decade later. Stormblood for many is the odd expansion out in terms of tone, compared to HW, SHB, EW etc, but it contains some of the most important narrative keystones of the entire 1.0-6.0 arc of the game's story. There's more I could say on this topic specifically, but I am unable to do so spoiler-free until you reach the current endgame.
As a long-time player, I look forward to your continued journey.
"Could you imagine playing an MMORPG for a whole year."
I mean, Steam says I have 17k hours in FFXIV, so yes, I can.
I'll never understand why people talk down Stormblood. It was bigger and better than Heavensward in every way. But everything people say about Shadowbringers is true, it's storytelling at it's best. I want to say something about Zenos but…
Oof, seeing the "Finest pupil's ally" title gave me the feels!
i got more than that many hours on poe 2 now clearly if it took u a year to get that on ff14 its bad
lel i dont really think its that bad but i do think gw2 eso wow albion and new world are way better than ff14 cuz the combat feels way worse the story is aight i love ff but its not as good of a game
So glad you’re loving XIV! Can’t wait to see your playthrough of SHB, EW, and DT!
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FFXIV won me over very very quickly when I first played in 2023. I'd come off ESO because I got hit by the microtransaction curse, and PSO2 for the same reason, and finding out that FFXIV's cash shop isn't part of the game and the free trial went right through Stormblood got me to give it a try.
The Waking Sands broke me in the BEST way. It made me sit back and pay attention. Since that moment I've been unashamedly hooked on the game. Any story willing to punch you in the gut that hard is worth my time and my money.
14 isnt a mmo with a story slapped on, its a story put in an mmo format, I wouldn't pay a sub to play any other game, yoshi p is the one true god
I also squeezed around 450 hours out of the free trial. Back when it only went up to lvl 60.
I did absolutely everything you cold possibly do in the free trial. Except for Alexander Savage. I did beat Coils thou Minimum Item level.
I got all my combat jobs to lvl 60 and then when i finished the story i wanted more and bought the game.
Enjoy Shadowbringers. It's going to be a ride.
There is only one thing good about Asshat, if you play Lala, at the moment he shows his true colors, he goes into insane bend so he can vent his rage into your face.
Great video, looking forward to more!
Soloing Nidhogg extreme as a dragoon is one of my personal favorite moments I had in game 😊
"GW2 story – 6/10", thats sums it up nicely. Not to trash on it, but whenever I was hoping for some deep lore to explore, GW2 turned out to be as deep as a puddle. And there is just so much potential, it became frustrating ^^°
Sorry for that little rant. Congrats on beating the Free Trial! Enjoy Shadowbringers, and dont forget your tissues ^.^
Shadowbringers is the best FF14 gets, it sets such a high standard Endwalker was kinda doomed to fail in some sense. Dawntrail isn't as bad as some say, but they did make some questionable choices, its review bombed into oblivion by a loud minority but people still play and enjoy it
Im going to warn you now, i played this game for 10 years. If you like the story, go for it, play it all the way through. If you are sick of the expansion 1-2-3 cycle, dont waste your time. The game does not change. Its a great game, if you dont care that your character never feels stronger. lol
"Who… WHAT are you?" is and always will be one of the best lines in the game.
Buckle up, Shadowbringers and Endwalker will be one hell of a ride to the end!
6:56
Teledji <–
–> Adeledji
Stand tall, Brave Little Spark!
I just started the game literally one day ago and is true that is slow but I don’t know somehow I like it.
I will try to get the best of the free version and then consider paying
Welcome and Enjoy I guess? 😅🖖
Shadowbringers and Endwalker are the best expansions story wise imo, enjoy de ride 😉
My journey with FFXIV started thanks to a friend as well, back just before 5.1 released, when the free trial only took you to level 35 in ARR. I had just come off of a bad burnout in warframe, and was going to take a long rest from gaming, when said friend who had been playing FFXIV suggested I try it. When I wasn’t convinced, he said to me “you can be a short dragon girl.” I tried the game—realized I had to get HW to be an Au Ra—and leveled out to 35. By then, I was completely hooked. And the rest is history for four years running
Imagine he playing shadowbringers man….
Just a year? Dude I've been on it for two and a half. There's STILL more stuff to do.
Stb has one of my favorite story moments. When you're in the cell with the redheaded woman, and she sees your journey with her stolen Echo. And she asks you how you keep going after so much loss.
I agree with you that STB was stronger than people give it credit for. Its themes were grounded and relatable. By contrast, all this god-slaying crap was the stuff that kinda lost me, but everyone else loves it. You'll probably have a similar reaction to DT when you get to it, because it tries to go back to being grounded after all the doom and gloom, and I really enjoyed it while everyone else hated it again.
Starting off the new year experiencing peak. I'm so excited for you
Why do I have an awkward secondhand embarrassment about 7.0 … good thing the worst expansion is not included in the free trial….
What an incredible video. I wish I knew you of your channel sooner so I could watch your journey.