My Wife Loves FFXIV… Though She Doesn't Play It.

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Quazii talks about the how his wife feels about his switch from World of Warcraft to playing Final Fantasy XIV as the MMORPG of choice.

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45 thoughts on “My Wife Loves FFXIV… Though She Doesn't Play It.”

  1. Doctor's Notes: side effects of daily consumption of FFXIV include but are not limited too. Better out look on life, positivity, patience, anger management therapy, better listening and reading skills, excessive tears, feels, respect for time spent and more time with your significant other/spouse. If you or your family or friends experience these side effects please share with others and spread the love.

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  2. Honestly i think it has more to do with quitting WoW than joining FFXIV. Starting FFXIV can probably be regarded as the 2nd-best decision of 2021, with the #1 best decision being to quit WoW.

    If you had started FFXIV but still remained committed to WoW as well (eg. promising yourself to go back to check out the next patch), all the bad stuff from WoW would still continue to weigh you down till this very day.

    Imagine there had been no blizzard scandal, no last straw to trigger that fateful decision to quit, who knows how much of the copium would still be present now.

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  3. 100% agree, and well done video! 🙂

    I stopped playing more competitive games when I realized how, for lack of a better word, "toxic" they can get, and how stressed I was about it. If you look at most competitive game streamers (shooters, fighting games, RTS, MOBA, even sports games like FIFA or Rocket League), they're cursing, yelling, and just generally stressed most of the time. Sure, there's funny moments, and some levity sprinkled in, but they rage more often than they smile or celebrate. Even when they win, they use profanity because its the release valve of stress opening up… and for some reason it gets normalized that "that's just what we do".

    FF14, had a very similar effect on me… and suggest to anyone. If you're stressing, being consumed by a game. Take a step away, or find something to main that's more lighthearted, or story driven, than the infinite loop of "I gotta do my dailies, or rank up, to get the best gear".

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  7. It is nice seeing so many content creators share their stories about how the game has changed a part of their life.

    As someone who was addicted to MMOs, the genre itself, I would bounce between games and couldn't get enough of them when they launched. Which sounds crazy, because it was. I played just about everything I could get ahold of, even the more obscure stuff (Redmoon, Auto-Assault, Hellgate London). Hell, FFXIV 1.0 was one of those games I jumped into and out of like the rest of them. When I finally did come back to FFXIV to play ARR with all the big updates, there was a bunch of excitement for HW, and I tore through all that content; like you typically do in these games, skipping dialog/cutscenes.

    Then, a week before HW launches, I only have a few MSQ quests left and I slow down, way down. I start to read quests and watch the cutscenes. I finish 2.5 just both completely enthralled and deeply confused. I ended up looking up lore for the content I skipped. HW finally launches and I take my time with it, finish it, and start another MMO like I always have. But the thing is, I just kept coming back to FFXIV to try out all the post game patches, and over time I was no longer trying out other games in the genre. The last game I tried was Black Desert Online for like a week. FFXIV is the longest I have ever played a single MMO, with plenty of breaks, and it's likely going to be the last one I end up playing since how do you top it?

    It killed my addiction despite it being what I was addicted to. lol what

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  10. World of Warcraft became a job for me in wotlk. I was a dual spec prot/holy belf since TBC. I mained holy and became a healer lead during ulduar when the previous healer lead said she was burnt out. I started to feel it when I was watching over 4 different main healers and 6 different alt healers in 2 simultaneous raids of Ulduar into taking down the LK. When we finally took down LK I was offered a raid leading spot that I never should've taken. I remember screaming in ventrilo when someone would wipe the raid, especially during heroic deathwing. After that, I knew the game had swallowed me and I became something I never wanted to be. Now, I'm a filthy casual and proud of it. I have scars from those days to prove to people why to never do what I, or you, did. It should never become a job.

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  11. WoW started ending for me at the end of WotLK. The content drought at the end of that expansion made me stop playing. I hated doing dalies and i didnt have the motivation to play as much. I quit soon after Legion's launch since they killed the only two specs i really enjoyed playing (2h Frost DK and Demo Lock). Been playing FF14 since and i love it 🙂 i take breaks but i woould never dream of quitting atm. The endwalker wait is real though not gonna lie D: i needs me that Reaper goodness!

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  12. Its great to hear that Mrs Q is so supportive and understanding esp when she doesn’t play the game herself. I first come across this channel looking for HoA guide. Excellent guides, informative, concise and clean. Now a FFXIV player and enjoying every min of of it. One other thing I notice with FFXIV is that the music mostly uplifting, soothing or epic (think Ishgard) and that subconsciously puts me in a good mood (music soothes the savage beast?? Lol). Not saying that WoW music isn’t good in fact they have many unforgettable tunes thru the years.

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  20. The way you describe how you used to act playing WoW is basically me when I'm doing extra freelance work… WoW was basically a second job. Now you have free time to play games for fun! 🙂

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  23. The feeling of this "compulsive need to log in" is so relatable. Never been a hardcore player tbh, but i had fear to fall behind and lose all my progress (on which i worked so hard). Ff14 feels way more relaxed. Cool that you talk about this topic. I needed this. You are talking about something i noticed but wouldn't admit to myself.

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  26. I genuinely hope WoW can develop into the kind of game that lets fans of it enjoy it in a reasonable way, like XIV does. I think in an ideal world, we don't have to be tied down to just one MMO.
    I like the intensity of prog, but then I also like having the free time between raid releases to play other stuff, like XIV allows me to.

    I'm glad to hear you've made such a good "recovery" from an unhealthy way to play 😊

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  39. I haven't had this much fun in a video game in years, so glad I moved here. I play a LOT each day but I'm not stressed or angry like I was playing WoW. I'm always playing because I'm having fun, not because I feel I need to. Anyway off to watch some TV because leveling my Astrologian and Gunbreaker can always wait until tomorrow. EDIT: Oh yeah, the community production as well, just spent half an hour listening to a jazz themed compilation of the FF14 theme music.

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  41. This is a small note but I loved the head-on camera angle from you in this video! It felt so warm and personal idk. I hate to request things of creators but if you ever talk directly at the camera again, that would be amazing. Keep up the great work, Quazii. P.s. your wife sounds amazing!

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  43. This reminds me of how my friend flunked out of animation school because he was playing WoW. And how my roommate in university got mice in his apartment because he never cleaned he just played WoW all night. I think so many old school MMOs have this reputation. It's weird how we all though this was ok.

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  44. It was the one thing that you have to give it to them the dev team. Never even once from almost 500 hours of my playtine that I logged out from the game and I feel angry or frustraited. I never into raid or any MMO element, I just played it like a Final Fantasy game. it took me more than 200 hours to finish ARR and I didn't even do any hard content just to me it just a really good open world RPG with so many thing to do. Someday I just loggin to the game and que into some random dungeon with other people just for fun.

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