Do you play Final Fantasy 14?
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2022 1:56 am
I've been playing MMOs since the early days of Ultima Online. In fact, MMOs are what made me leap from being a gamer to a game developer. I try my best to at least try out a variety of them... both because I generally enjoy MMOs but I also like to see what they are doing from a game systems standpoint.
There are some reasons that I love FFXIV:
-Story (I'm very narrative-driven)
-combat and how different classes play (yes, low-level combat is far too simple but it steadily ramps up to become insanely fun)
-all classes in one character (this is almost enough to make other MMOs annoying on its own)
-good balance of content in terms of breadth and depth (normal raiding, gold saucer, hunts, crafting, dungeons, alliance raids, potd, Savage raiding, and so on)
-nice community (it's nice to just get to hang out and chat, people are fun and friendly) -lots of FF references (FF is my favorite franchise, and XIV is, to me, the best FF I've played) -respects your time but makes investing more time worthwhile (easy to reach skill floor, harder to reach skill ceiling - same for gear and FFXIV Items)
I get that it's not for everyone and that's good; if it was it'd be pulled in too many directions to be good for anyone.
So what is it that you enjoy about FFXIV? What keeps you coming back for more?
There are some reasons that I love FFXIV:
-Story (I'm very narrative-driven)
-combat and how different classes play (yes, low-level combat is far too simple but it steadily ramps up to become insanely fun)
-all classes in one character (this is almost enough to make other MMOs annoying on its own)
-good balance of content in terms of breadth and depth (normal raiding, gold saucer, hunts, crafting, dungeons, alliance raids, potd, Savage raiding, and so on)
-nice community (it's nice to just get to hang out and chat, people are fun and friendly) -lots of FF references (FF is my favorite franchise, and XIV is, to me, the best FF I've played) -respects your time but makes investing more time worthwhile (easy to reach skill floor, harder to reach skill ceiling - same for gear and FFXIV Items)
I get that it's not for everyone and that's good; if it was it'd be pulled in too many directions to be good for anyone.
So what is it that you enjoy about FFXIV? What keeps you coming back for more?
