Lmao! In b4 Lock..

FFXIV looks pretty damn good

if i were to ever quit this game, i would definitely move over there

FF has some fun elements and I love the crafting & guild housing system (and how I could crossdress my character without him looking funny) but the story is just bad. Normally that's not a problem for MMO but FF is very story-driven. So I ended up sitting through hours of boring cutscenes, learning about how utterly unconvincing and uninspirational the majority of characters are (there were occasionally some interesting pieces of dialogue and I grew to like one or two of those NPCs, but generally speaking I didn't enjoy the storytelling style.)

I'm not a big fan of mainstream anime, so it could be that.

IMHO, there's not much to compare between the two. They're both MMOs and have similar MMO aspects (quests, dungeons, etc.) but the implementation is very different.

If you like slow, tab-targeted, boxed-in, story-on-rails games where you can slog through most of the content playing one handed while eating a burrito and where the game doesn't really begin until you hit level cap, then FF is your game.

Some people like that. Other people don't.

That being said, as far as games of that nature go it is done nicely. The graphics are good, and the game is solid. Things "just work". You're far more likely to run into account issues than you are to run into any in game issues. It also has all the nice perks and quirks of FF story lines if you're a fan of the series (though some have a more "mature" content than the days of yore).

I lost my taste for the old tab-targeted/fixed progression type games a while ago. I prefer the large open world, action-oriented combat genre (ESO, GW2, etc.). But that's just me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zvWgGPWOVlQ

Knowledge wrote: »

Final Fantasy has some good visuals but it's just too slow with the 2.5s global cool down.

you can only use one ability every 2.5 second?
How does that work in practice? thinking the one second in ESO is long enough.
Ok with WOW style combat but wow is pretty fast paced.

Euhm, yeah, sure, ask that question on the ESO forums.
No pressure on the Final 'FAN'-tasy.

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But bugged ESO is the best for me, because of TES lore

JWKe wrote: »

Tarrin wrote: »

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But bugged ESO is the best for me, because of TES lore

FF14 might be a little inflated cuz Stormblood

As well as deflated as a lot of players play on the game's launcher, which is probably the case for all three games on the list. Another FF player send me the following link to get an idea of active player count https://ffxivcensus.com/

andreasv wrote: »

JWKe wrote: »

Tarrin wrote: »

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But bugged ESO is the best for me, because of TES lore

FF14 might be a little inflated cuz Stormblood

As well as deflated as a lot of players play on the game's launcher, which is probably the case for all three games on the list. Another FF player send me the following link to get an idea of active player count https://ffxivcensus.com/

VERY impressive. It's no wonder Blizzard decided to open up the Tomb of Sargares the same day as Stormblood's release.

Played both, couldnt get past the combat in FFXIV which is imo over the top. Like the more realistic combat in ESO. Same for graphics, ESO is more "realistic".

Although some of the features in FFXIV would be nice if they come to ESO.

- Play every class on one toon (make all skill lines available on a single toon)
- More random events in the world like in FFXIV would be good for ESO.

FFXIV?! You spend hours every day grinding dungeons so you can get token (tomes) to purchase armor from a certain tier. When you've finally collected a full set of armor, you know what you get to look forward to? Grinding dungeons again for different tokens so you can buy armor from the next tier of armor. When you're done with that, guess what? There's another tier for you to grind.
You have to grind daily to level up your crafting and resource collecting. You have to grind daily to level up your weapon. The economy is crap thanks to the centralized auction house. The combat is slow and dull (tab-targeting and a GCD, bleh). You can't rob, feed off of or kill npcs. You can't become a vampire, werewolf, or thief. Housing is a joke. The Golden Tower, though a pleasant distraction, is ultimately pointless. The quests are repetitive and unimaginative (remember the moogle quests). Pvp is a joke. Eorzea is NOT open world, and FFXIV likes to lock content behind the story. Want to know what the majority of end-game players are doing? Standing around the end-game town showing off whatever mount they just got from grinding.
In the end, I stopped playing FFXIV because it felt like a boring full-time job.

The story and combat is better in ESO than in FFXIV.

I only play FFXIV because it's "final fantasy" that's it.

Absolut_Turkey wrote: »

FFXIV?! You spend hours every day grinding dungeons so you can get token (tomes) to purchase armor from a certain tier. When you've finally collected a full set of armor, you know what you get to look forward to? Grinding dungeons again for different tokens so you can buy armor from the next tier of armor. When you're done with that, guess what? There's another tier for you to grind.
You have to grind daily to level up your crafting and resource collecting. You have to grind daily to level up your weapon. The economy is crap thanks to the centralized auction house. The combat is slow and dull (tab-targeting and a GCD, bleh). You can't rob, feed off of or kill npcs. You can't become a vampire, werewolf, or thief. Housing is a joke. The Golden Tower, though a pleasant distraction, is ultimately pointless. The quests are repetitive and unimaginative (remember the moogle quests). Pvp is a joke. Eorzea is NOT open world, and FFXIV likes to lock content behind the story. Want to know what the majority of end-game players are doing? Standing around the end-game town showing off whatever mount they just got from grinding.
In the end, I stopped playing FFXIV because it felt like a boring full-time job.

Get token (tomes) to purchase armor from a certain tier - I'm sure running vMSA hundreds of times without getting the weapon you need / want is much better.

Housing is a joke - Are you serious? ESO housing is instanced copy / pasted content with some overpriced time-limited exclusives. And you think that's better?!

Eorzea is NOT open world - Neither is Tamriel

Showing off whatever mount they just got from grinding - Better than showing off that mount you got from the Crown Store. And you can get mounts in FF by playing the game.