Should you play FFXIV in 2023?
Final Fantasy 14 is one of the biggest MMORPGS and has been around for over 10 years. It has received many awards and an amazing review score, but its not for everyone. So I wanted to cover the good the bad and overall, should you play FFXIV in 2023.
I’ve played almost every part of the FFXIV and wanted to cover as much as possible so that this FF14 review is as comprehensive as possible. There is a lot to love about Final Fantasy 14, but it also has its problems. But overall this is an incredible game I hope you find something in this video makes you want to try it.
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0:00 Intro
1:35 New Player Experience
3:15 The Job System
4:55 The Story
6:25 FFXIV Community
8:15 Solo Content
9:40 Group PvE Content
11:40 PvP Content
13:50 Overall Summary
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I think I'll stick to barbie dreamhouse adventure.
Always play ffxiv
Great video!
Just something to keep in mind, in terms of gearing, 24-man raids is a great way to catch up to current endgame,
not as close to savage raiders but close enough to be ready for future contents.
PVP wise, after their revamped in Endwalker is super fun. Each job is simplified but retain their identity,
also comes with their own unique limit break that can easily turn tides
In the new gamemode which is similar to pushing payloads.
Keep up the awesome work!
Hello Kitty Island Adventure didn't have a 300 hours campaign before endgame could jump right into Doraemon (Savage) hours after character creation FFXIV simply ain't keeping up with us Zoomers.
This is a perfectly fine vid marty! Nice to see some long form content from you ^-^
PvP is much improved, but still by far, one of its weakest points. I was recently pointed toward a Discord for the PvP community so now I know when Rival Wings is being played and on which datacenter, and I think I'll be doing the same for CC. While not everything is a win with the community, Discord has helped with getting together those more niche groups – Blue Mage for example, and being able to do that lesser explored content. Us veterans love showing sprouts to our favorite parts of the game. 🙂
I don't mind FFXIV PVP because I never much cared for WoW PVP either. Back then, I just did it for the rewards and I do the same now.
My favorite PVP games: Quake (with the CTF Mod), Quake III, and Unreal Tournament 2004 (2007 wasn't terrible).
Good video man, gotta say I enjoyed it even as someone who doesn't play FFXIV (I have the trial, might jump back in). I was wondering if you were planning on doing a similar video for WoW and GWW2 (my personal fav).
I pretty much only raid and maybe work on my house. There are still so much solo content that I haven't touched. It's really a game where you can do whatever you want.
A fun though, maybe the reason that pvp is not as popular, is that the game does a good job of making you care about other players, instead of wanting to kill them
Great video over all, although I would disagree with some aspects of it though:
Talent complexity is a fallacy as there is only one meta spec you are forced to spec into if you want to get anywhere. In most cases becoming more of an annoyance than anything else.
Gearing at end game can be done through alliance raids, hunt trains for upgrade mats "past mid patches", augmented crafted gear or savage. Obtaining the best gear makes the content go faster without ruining the experience for new or under geared players. Casuals can upgrade the tombstone gear to savage item level with some parts having worse sub stats but the same core stats.
I find pvp is great. Mainly because I can't wipe my ass with my opponents simply because I am higher level or more geared. Fun fact back in ARR you used to gain pvp power with pvp ranks and you could buy pvp gear, this meant whoever been pvping the longest always won. Which killed pvp for a long time.
I never had long pvp ques in Aether unless you mean frontlines at 6 am or something? Even then the CC ques are always a few mins long at most.
Sure you get less abilities in pvp but how you use those abilities is what count. You can see the massive difference between a high ranked player and a low rank/ new player.
Frontlines on the other hand is a mix bag since most people just do it once a day for the experience bonus. Sometimes you get incredibly intense matches, sometimes you get a one sided stomp.
The lack of talent trees and build variety is honestly irrelevant. Other MMOs usually run with false choices: either build the exact meta way or don’t get invited to parties
For PvP you just have to do them in proper days in peak hours – then there's no really waiting too much.
And for Hidden Gorge, it's good to use some pvp discords to check the schedules for fights.
Otherwise you may wait long, but it never really happened too much for me.
Good video anyway. Cheers!
The character customization isn't as complex as BDO, but Jesus Christ, I only found out when I started playing this game how incredibly diverse you can make your character when you factor in glam. Glamour and your character's appearance are synergistic in FFXIV on a level I've never experienced, no joke. I have hairstyles that I wear with different glams, tattoos I wear with certain glams, and I've even rerolled my toon just so I could change my eye color because it didn't work as well with a look I put together.
If you want to look like Shrek, you roll a Roe and go to town.
If you want to be a miniature golden chicken, you roll a Lala.
I've seen everything from badass space marines, to miniature elephants, to angels, to demons, to fast food employees, and everything in-between in this game. Ever seen the Oasis from Ready Player One? Go to Limsa and I promise that's the closest thing I've seen a game get to making that a reality. You can be ANYTHING you want if you have the creativity.
Final Fashion XIV, for real.✌ 😅
You didn't mention the reset after raid wipes. No corpse runs, no waiting for CDs, just straight back in at the start of the fight and ready to go, which is great.
The crafting is fabulous, with a real element of progging towards making high quality gear. The rotation I used to make Classical stuff didn't work for the Riniscita, so I had to figure out a new one – love it! Also the crafted gear isn't just relevant, it's mandatory in order to meet the min ilvl requirements of new raid tiers – and if you're not into raiding it's all you need to clear the other content.
What DC are you in? In Crystal I get pretty much always insta queues for PvP.
The exception is Rival Wings, but for other things only at really very odd hours I get queues of about 10 minutes. Typically it's 30 seconds tops