Final Fantasy 14 is one of the most popular MMORPGs because of the massive support from the fans of the franchise. While the story and raid content are great, the leveling systems and steep linear progression make it one of the most demanding games to play. But the game is receiving updates and improvements all the time with five expansions in 2024 and the developers releasing features that the players want. So the question is whether or not Final Fantasy XIV is worth your time.
0:00 – Intro
2:32 – Story
4:35 – Leveling
8:46 – Monetization
10:16 – Content
13:11 – PvP
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I told myself I would play one month of FF14 to give the game a fair shot, and even though I had negative preconceptions I ended up enjoying the game a lot, so much that I will continue playing through all the expansions, at least until I don't have fun anymore. Be sure to like this video and subscribe if you want to see more videos like this for any game, or check out when I livestream (where I get all the footage for this video).
If a game need 50 or 100 hours to be good. Then its not a good game.
The thing is, MMOs nowadays need to be at least somewhat casual-friendly, and FFXIV is not. If you stop playing for a little while, you fall way behind and can’t keep up. Plus, the endgame is terrible, and every mid-to-end expansion suffers from content drought. The zones feel dead, and the gameplay is really dull cause there's no diversity of builds. I quit FFXIV for GW2, and honestly, it was one of the best decisions I've made.
i hate the change of class/skills when you play lower level contend. Also the combat system does not feel meaningful
i tried to like this game for 4 years and I just gave up after the endwalker story, felt like a good stopping point.
FFXIV is decent singleplayer game, that has multiplayer aspects in it. As MMO it's playerbase has convinced itself it's the best game ever and it has the best community ever. If you don't agree with that you are a bigot and they will harrass you. Combat is just dancing, static shit with bright lights and there is no build or gear variation.
I really did want to like this game and tried for a fair while, but I just didn't like the combat system. Plus it seems as though there's really no build diversity. I could do without the global cooldown system too that probably annoyed me the most. Other than that if it'd had something more akin to gw2 or TERA I probably would've been happy to play it further. As it was I only got so far as finishing heavensward (which was a high point, granted, definitely better story than majority of mmos).
i tried to give this game a shot but it had the most horrific graphics i have witnessed despite everything being on max setting. simply could not convince myself to play the game
I tried so hard to get into this game but the early game is pretty boring, there were so many fetch quest and the story wasn't all that engaging. So yeah while I'm sure there's something incredible later down the line i feel the early game just does not respect my time
I play xiv for the pve, i play gw2 for the pvp/wvw. Easy.
Iwanted to get into it, but the games too bloated at this point. It felt like a job to learn what the hell to do.
I'm not an FF14 player and I never played any, but when I see the rotation and the bloated skills (ex: the "basic attacks" for melee and the positionals like wtf) it felt annoying to play. It feels like even if you unlock all of the classes, you need to master 1 class in order to be useful in a raid (unless you are a veteran with years of experience) 😅
Lots of skills and with each expansion, more and more skills are added… the result is at least 5 hotbars, just like WOW. For this reason, the game becomes boring
Excellent video, concise and informative! I’m finishing up another game right now, but have decided to try and get into ff again. The game model and reward system fits more with my gaming wishes now. What classes have you played so far, where ish in the story did you get? I’ll try and catch the stream sometime
My problems are no build diversity, and my playtime is limited cannot stick with subscription type. Im already lv 70 and personally i love dragoon, and any mmos cant beat dragoon class in ff14. But yeah thats my two problems.
Finished up Shadowbringers and had roughly 500 hours on the game from leveling several classes, working up PVP ranks, and getting some raids done from the early xpacs – Feel like I got my moneys worth for the couple years i played the game on and off – I think its a fantastic game and any MMO fan would have a blast playing it, for how long is truly the question.
Should I buy it from Steam or from their web?
They need to prune the ARR story a lot to allow newbs quicker access to the later expansions. Arr is boring ASF anyways and you shouldn't have to be forced to suffer thru the story or be forced to buy a story skip. There's other options but SE doesn't wanna do it. I played for 9 yrs so I suffered through ARR story when then quest line was double what it is now.
Definetely a people pleaser of a game. However while all MMOs can be demanding of your time, FFXIV is far from the most demanding. Gearing is much easier and the devs consistently make efforts towards ensuring that players are never walled out of newer content. I would try something like Black Desert Online if you want to see a MMO thats really demanding.
0:50 Tank cooldowns are up, so is Superbolide. That was on you.
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Every contents in this game is worth grinding but tedious as the same time. For example, grinding win in Frontline is really fun but nightmare at the same time (you may stuck with some unintelligent team or pro-player team), Savage raid is challenging but need some time to learn the mechanic of the boss. Deep dungeon can be play solo or with your teammate.
I spend about 7 years in this game in every days and I found something new to grind or learn new things
3:27 y u hurt me? 😢 just finished that part recently so the wound is still very fresh
what do you think of the combat in ffxiv? once i tried the combat in gw2 i couldn't go back to ffxiv. i really enjoyed so many things about ffxiv and played for about 2 years but I could never get past how bad the combat felt.
As a fellow veteran since 2.0 (partial 1.0) this game is an amazing game for new and older players.
The important golden rules to follow when playing this game –
1. Take your time: there is no point rushing thru the story, almost every content players are still doing even after all thes years.
2. Lots of Reading: about the entire game revolves around reading. If you just hate reading, then this game isnt for you. If you plan to skip for the hardcore raiding, then go for ot, but u might not enjoy what your raiding about to what is the backstory behind the rading scene.
3. Patience: Some people dont mind the slow start, but it does truly get better as you progress; especially when ur only about to use 2-3 skills the forst 20 levels.
By the time u reach endgame, ur gonna be pressing so many skills, u might as well get a certify licence to even play the job masterfully (Mentor status)
If your worried about pay for a game u might not like, that's where the Free Trials for the base game and the 2 expansion are free to play without using your credit card.
But the biggest killee for motivation is actually starting up an account. We all went thru this and never has changed
Still has better combat than the 2024 Project TL
FF14 in 3 words: Abstruce but fun.
Never returning on principal however. Squaresoft essentially ripped me off. Took my money for the 3rd Xpac, which made it impossible for me to log in for some reason. Communicated with support for a week. They made it clear they had no interest or intention to resolve the issue. So I stopped trying, cancelled my sub and they got a free, unused xpac purchase from me. Fuck that company.