I’ve seen some takes on this but it’s time for a new look now that FF Dawntrail and WoW The War Within are out. Truth be told, One just does it right!
WoW vs FFXIV will be a topic for still more years to come but for now this is my personal take on it.
WoW vs FFXIV: Which is the Best MMO for YOU?
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FF14 has the worst combat of any MMO. It's slow, and it forces you into a rotation. You specifically have to press buttons in a given order. You don't choose skills, you are given all your skills as you level.
Wow has faster based combat, but still tab target. You have different builds within each class.
I loved FFXI but I absolutely hate FFXIV. I don't really understand how it's become so popular, it has so many bad mechanics and design choices. I want to love it and I resub every few years hoping lots has changed but it's still a complete slog. The characters in the story are hugely dislikeable – you won't have to wonder whats going on with the story because you'll have to do it all from level 1 regardless. The story is bad, the combat is bad, the daily roulette choices are bad. WoW has it's problems but FFXIV is a bad MMO. FFXIV music is great but the class system is too annoyingly simple compared to XI as well! Very nostalgic menus.
I love FFXIV because it was built specifically for classic & casual MMO players who want a bingeable RPG series to play with their friends as opposed to the modern MMO business model of shovelware FOMO centered around the player fantasy of being a celeb amongst a wannabe-esports community encouraged to become addicted to & milked for an endless churn of number-go-up.
Why It's Rude To Suck At Warcraft by FoldingIdeas is a whole academically cited essay on that self-induced rat race. FFXIV sets out to subvert & rebel against everything I've ever despised in modern MMORPG design. In short: I'm giddy & glib that hardcore raiders fall in love with it, exhaust all its content, get bitter, & then leave. It's never been & still isn't that kind of game. As one of the people in the classic & casual MMORPG era audience: it isn't gatekeeping that the game has wide appeal but is dunked on by MMO junkies – that's by design. And it's exactly how WoW even got started: it was the casual MMORPG experience of 2004.
Right now I'm playing both vanilla classic WoW & every expansion of XIV's content. And I am very happy.
Seriously. FF is trash in every aspect compared to wow especially with the tww exp. It's not even close. And i am a FF fan since FF2.
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I gotta play wow more, It's a really interesting game but I feel like I'm really behind on stuff and that I gotta rush to the endgame, even tho I'm not sure how to even tho that.
I think the quest system is very complicated, in ff14 you just do the next "burning" exclamation mark quest that's on the hud, in wow I think you can choose which expansion to begin? which seems alt friendly (thank god cuz I like playing multiple classes) I just haven't found a good guide that just answers most of my questions, I guess one day I might pick up on it, the graphics too… they get to me XD, they just look so old, but it's more of a getting used to thing I guess
As someone who is currently playing both WoW and FF14, I feel as a new player it is more difficult for players to know what's going on in the story as a whole and with character development in WoW.
Just dont play ff14, you think us in ff14 need a cry baby like you?