Is It Worth Playing Final Fantasy XIV In 2024 

I've been playing MMORPGs for 20 years. To be honest, the story, which begins at Character creation, gets anoying. The polytheistic chioce you get seems to mean nothing (must be a fairly vain, empty, attempt to make your character unique). Then I was introduced to Mother which got very anoying, very quickly. I don't need computer mom's approval, nor is it even welcome so, I began dreding interaction with that thing. She basically made me feel like saying, "Look, lady, I know you mean well but, please, don't praise or compliment me. Just shut up and tell me what to do next. Thank you." I'm an experienced player and the story did not impress me. Guild Wars 2 was a decent story and worth playing through once. Honestly, I haven't seen a story that wasn't done before already in quite a while. I should say, this is also why Baldurs Gate 3 doesn't impress me. I also don't like Baldurs Gate's woke tone and I'd likely cast aside all of the NPCs that they try to force on you as companions. That leaves a shell of a game but, it's not fun to have a green chick, who's life you save, treating you like trash every time she opens her mouth. It would be nice to see some gratitude for saving someones life. Sorry for digressing. In this game, woke, wretched, women are replaced by woke praise. Yes, I said "woke" about Final Fantasy. Why? The praise you receive is like a medocrity participation trophy. You pay half-way attention to combat and then someone tells you how "special" and "important" you are. Final Fantasy lays the false praise on super thick for rather thin effort. Where is the mystery, the puzzles, the cleverness? One praise-worthy aspect is the good vs evil motif but, it is also weak because why good in Final Fantasy IS good isn't clear, nor is why evil IS evil clear. Guild Wars 2, with their active time events with the "evil" guys attacking a town or people made it much clearer that, these guys are evil because they are willing to attack and kill, right in front of you, completely innocent people. Now that gives motivation to take up the battle. Traveling accross a map to go attack whatever the quest givers tell you to attack, only to see creatures, who are minding their own business, not harming anyone, and then kill them, is very deflating. Then there are the empty, substanceless "gods" which I don't even know where to begin. There's no temples, no devotion, no depth there of any kind, making hearing their "praise" and making you into some "chosen one" seem meaningless in the extreme. What do these "gods" do for the world, how are they involved in it? Did they make the world on which you live? Of what value are they? Maybe that is gone-into more in later game but, special people don't derive their power from themselves or else, what is the value or purpose of even having "gods"? Better to simply leave them out or have just one that is a focus but, perhaps not any sort of focus of your adventure until late game. Again, it's kind of hard to see the value or purpose of some of the pieces of this game when their importance is represented by nothing. No, Temple or Church of the gods. No devotees. Not even any symbols that the beings in the world wear to pay some respect to their "patron". By looking at the game, and nothing else, you couldn't even come to comprehend, by observation, that there even are "gods" in the world. My ultimate assessment is, Final Fantasy Online lacks the substance and drive of the older Final Fantasy frnachise. It's not a bad game but it is a rather thin game, filled with bloated appeals to ego, vanity, and empty, purposeless, things. The game is the real-world equivilant of a warehouse full of riches and treasures when all of society has colapsed and which couldn't buy a mouth full of food because, compared to food, it has no value at all. Riches only have their value because they enhance life above poverty. When everyone is rich, what's the point? Light has it's value by contrast with the dark. Dark only holds its fears by contrast with the light. If all anyone knew was light, what would their be to fear? If all anyone ever knew was the dark, who would be seeking hope in the light? There are few, and in some cases, no contrasts in this game. No devotees to contrast with heritics. No rich to value and appreciate the wealth they have gained by comparison to the poor. No darkness or dark places seeking to destroy the light (they're just minding their own business when you show up yo slaughter them). There is no light moving forwared seeking to illuminate the dark by peace, love, or dialogue (you just show up and start blasting them and you don't even try, by dialogue, to interact with the bad guys on some higher level first, then they decline and attack you first. Nope. You just show up and they are bad, because someone told you, "they are bad", and start the killing. And, honestly, that makes for a very shallow game over all. Final Fantasy Online isn't a bad game but, neither is it a good game because it is entirely missing a superior adventure path of light, shown and proven out as the "light" for good reason. Neither does it have a dark path, with the darkness showing valid reasons for why it IS dark and a lesser path. It is over-blown with vanity "feel good" garbage that, if you do have any true devotion in your personal life, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddah, or other serious religion of wisdom and devotion, will be off-putting because the "gods" of Final Fantasy Online lack all substance, to the point that you'll wonder why they are even a component of the game. To see such a thing done well, I would point to games like, The Elder Scrolls, Morrowind, Oblivion, or Skyrim, where the "gods" of those world had Temples and Churches, and their "god" and special actions of working for them could do things like cure diseases, heal, and provide some benefit. The Elder Scrolls also had devotees, and poor people, and symbols of the "gods" and even the ability to get married under one of them with a symbol, a necklace, not a wedding ring but, still. Those games were so popular, with people STILL playing them to this day, because the worlds definately had its contrasts. Final Fantasy Online is the Mayonaise of the mmorpg style games and that's no compliment. There are some contrasts but they are slight and are not deep or profound. I wish it weren't so but, the Fallout franchise suffers from the same issue in reverse, with everything being bad, deadly, or monsterous, with everything going from bad to another bad, or a worse bad. That makes it hard to enjoy when the contrast is so slight. Even you, as a player of the Fallout games, are only extreme by being good and doing good because so few people in the game are even making such attempts, being the only one, at all, doing real good in the whole world. Dull, right? A game is much better when there are good contrasts like in The Elder Scrolls games where there are others helping the world like you, to an extent, and those with different agendas, some bad (on a wide variety of levels, theives, killers, tricksters, monsters) and some good (also on a wide variety of levels, priests who heal, city guards, patrolman who can and will save your life if you are attacked on the road by bandits or other "bad guys", investigators, spies working for good behind the scenes, etc.) It is because of those contrasts that give any word its depth, substance, and variety. Final Fantasy Online lacks a whole lot of that contrast. As an aside, The Elder Scrolls Online falls harshly short is in an interesting way by forcing the player to do intentionally wrong things against what type and kind of character you are trying to play. To be honest, I don't think I have ever seen a game do something like that which, to be honest, really angered me. For every Elder Scrolls game I have ever played, I have hunted, to extinction, The Dark Brotherhood. I have always played the Elder Scrolls game that way, seeking their distruction. I have never once become a member of the Dark Brotherhood. I have always destroyed them. That's how I play. The Elder Scrolls Online force players to absolute dissadvantage by choosing not to be evil and not to murder. My wife and I were both paying $15.00 a month for that game until that point. The Elder Scrolls Online was really good, up to that point. Talk about making me very angry at a game I play for enjoyment. No game I play gets to force me to make evil choices to be a successful player or be a lesser player who loses out over other players because I refuse to play as "the bad guy". I'm sorry but, I get to play as a guy who tries to be good, if I want to play that way. Forcing me to be evil or be under armored, under armed, or miss out on other advantages, while I am paying to play the game every month, is going yo stop me playing that game. I get to play how I want to play or that game can go straight to hell. My answer to that is, 100%, no. No, every time. Anyway, that's my assessment of Final Fantasy Online as it compares to other main-stream mmorpgs, with my thoughts on some of those games thrown in.

Agreed, just ARR pacing is god awful from LV35 to LV49 holy shit lol

Agreed. Pre lvl 30 isnt that log and post lvl 30 gets truely interesting Its the post arr patches that tend to be the focus of criticism. It still has a ton of fat that didnt get cut out.

I am currently slogging it and it is fun one mission in twenty.

@@bellringer53 and it was WAY worse when that shit was the 250 quest *gauntlet!*

Arr?

Ehh arr just isn’t that good. Very generic. Summoned baddies, fight the empire. Basically the same story as ff1. Wayyyyy too much run here and there and fetch this and that. Blah. Post arr was such a boring slog too. If you want to spend 300 hours to watch a 20 hour b movie, it’s your game. It’s not bad but it blew me away that it’s not more streamlined given it’s age.

90% of the time people running old content is daily duty roulette as well

How am I supposed to log in on PS5 in order to enjoy the "Ease of access"?

@Pumpkin_4122 what do you mean? The process to sign in is way more streamlined on playatation than PC. Are you genuinely having an issue?

For real? That’s sounds great. Man I can’t wait to try it. I’ve been a heavy wow player from vanilla till legion.. Now with more irl stuff and I’ve gotten older I prefer couch gaming(I still play pc, but not as much anymore. And now it’s coming to Xbox , so I’ve always heard good things about it. Can’t wait.

@@HawkNocturnal beta starts tommorw so get ready!

I've been playing MMORPGs for 20 years. To be honest, the story, which begins at Character creation, gets anoying. The polytheistic chioce you get seems to mean nothing (must be a fairly vain, empty, attempt to make your character unique). Then I was introduced to Mother which got very anoying, very quickly. I don't need computer mom's approval, nor is it even welcome so, I began dreding interaction with that thing. She basically made me feel like saying, "Look, lady, I know you mean well but, please, don't praise or compliment me. Just shut up and tell me what to do next. Thank you." I'm an experienced player and the story did not impress me. Guild Wars 2 was a decent story and worth playing through once. Honestly, I haven't seen a story that wasn't done before already in quite a while. I should say, this is also why Baldurs Gate 3 doesn't impress me. I also don't like Baldurs Gate's woke tone and I'd likely cast aside all of the NPCs that they try to force on you as companions. That leaves a shell of a game but, it's not fun to have a green chick, who's life you save, treating you like trash every time she opens her mouth. It would be nice to see some gratitude for saving someones life. Sorry for digressing. In this game, woke, wretched, women are replaced by woke praise. Yes, I said "woke" about Final Fantasy. Why? The praise you receive is like a medocrity participation trophy. You pay half-way attention to combat and then someone tells you how "special" and "important" you are. Final Fantasy lays the false praise on super thick for rather thin effort. Where is the mystery, the puzzles, the cleverness? One praise-worthy aspect is the good vs evil motif but, it is also weak because why good in Final Fantasy IS good isn't clear, nor is why evil IS evil clear. Guild Wars 2, with their active time events with the "evil" guys attacking a town or people made it much clearer that, these guys are evil because they are willing to attack and kill, right in front of you, completely innocent people. Now that gives motivation to take up the battle. Traveling accross a map to go attack whatever the quest givers tell you to attack, only to see creatures, who are minding their own business, not harming anyone, and then kill them, is very deflating. Then there are the empty, substanceless "gods" which I don't even know where to begin. There's no temples, no devotion, no depth there of any kind, making hearing their "praise" and making you into some "chosen one" seem meaningless in the extreme. What do these "gods" do for the world, how are they involved in it? Did they make the world on which you live? Of what value are they? Maybe that is gone-into more in later game but, special people don't derive their power from themselves or else, what is the value or purpose of even having "gods"? Better to simply leave them out or have just one that is a focus but, perhaps not any sort of focus of your adventure until late game. Again, it's kind of hard to see the value or purpose of some of the pieces of this game when their importance is represented by nothing. No, Temple or Church of the gods. No devotees. Not even any symbols that the beings in the world wear to pay some respect to their "patron". By looking at the game, and nothing else, you couldn't even come to comprehend, by observation, that there even are "gods" in the world. My ultimate assessment is, Final Fantasy Online lacks the substance and drive of the older Final Fantasy frnachise. It's not a bad game but it is a rather thin game, filled with bloated appeals to ego, vanity, and empty, purposeless, things. The game is the real-world equivilant of a warehouse full of riches and treasures when all of society has colapsed and which couldn't buy a mouth full of food because, compared to food, it has no value at all. Riches only have their value because they enhance life above poverty. When everyone is rich, what's the point? Light has it's value by contrast with the dark. Dark only holds its fears by contrast with the light. If all anyone knew was light, what would their be to fear? If all anyone ever knew was the dark, who would be seeking hope in the light? There are few, and in some cases, no contrasts in this game. No devotees to contrast with heritics. No rich to value and appreciate the wealth they have gained by comparison to the poor. No darkness or dark places seeking to destroy the light (they're just minding their own business when you show up yo slaughter them). There is no light moving forwared seeking to illuminate the dark by peace, love, or dialogue (you just show up and start blasting them and you don't even try, by dialogue, to interact with the bad guys on some higher level first, then they decline and attack you first. Nope. You just show up and they are bad, because someone told you, "they are bad", and start the killing. And, honestly, that makes for a very shallow game over all. Final Fantasy Online isn't a bad game but, neither is it a good game because it is entirely missing a superior adventure path of light, shown and proven out as the "light" for good reason. Neither does it have a dark path, with the darkness showing valid reasons for why it IS dark and a lesser path. It is over-blown with vanity "feel good" garbage that, if you do have any true devotion in your personal life, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddah, or other serious religion of wisdom and devotion, will be off-putting because the "gods" of Final Fantasy Online lack all substance, to the point that you'll wonder why they are even a component of the game. To see such a thing done well, I would point to games like, The Elder Scrolls, Morrowind, Oblivion, or Skyrim, where the "gods" of those world had Temples and Churches, and their "god" and special actions of working for them could do things like cure diseases, heal, and provide some benefit. The Elder Scrolls also had devotees, and poor people, and symbols of the "gods" and even the ability to get married under one of them with a symbol, a necklace, not a wedding ring but, still. Those games were so popular, with people STILL playing them to this day, because the worlds definately had its contrasts. Final Fantasy Online is the Mayonaise of the mmorpg style games and that's no compliment. There are some contrasts but they are slight and are not deep or profound. I wish it weren't so but, the Fallout franchise suffers from the same issue in reverse, with everything being bad, deadly, or monsterous, with everything going from bad to another bad, or a worse bad. That makes it hard to enjoy when the contrast is so slight. Even you, as a player of the Fallout games, are only extreme by being good and doing good because so few people in the game are even making such attempts, being the only one, at all, doing real good in the whole world. Dull, right? A game is much better when there are good contrasts like in The Elder Scrolls games where there are others helping the world like you, to an extent, and those with different agendas, some bad (on a wide variety of levels, theives, killers, tricksters, monsters) and some good (also on a wide variety of levels, priests who heal, city guards, patrolman who can and will save your life if you are attacked on the road by bandits or other "bad guys", investigators, spies working for good behind the scenes, etc.) It is because of those contrasts that give any word its depth, substance, and variety. Final Fantasy Online lacks a whole lot of that contrast. As an aside, The Elder Scrolls Online falls harshly short is in an interesting way by forcing the player to do intentionally wrong things against what type and kind of character you are trying to play. To be honest, I don't think I have ever seen a game do something like that which, to be honest, really angered me. For every Elder Scrolls game I have ever played, I have hunted, to extinction, The Dark Brotherhood. I have always played the Elder Scrolls game that way, seeking their distruction. I have never once become a member of the Dark Brotherhood. I have always destroyed them. That's how I play. The Elder Scrolls Online force players to absolute dissadvantage by choosing not to be evil and not to murder. My wife and I were both paying $15.00 a month for that game until that point. The Elder Scrolls Online was really good, up to that point. Talk about making me very angry at a game I play for enjoyment. No game I play gets to force me to make evil choices to be a successful player or be a lesser player who loses out over other players because I refuse to play as "the bad guy". I'm sorry but, I get to play as a guy who tries to be good, if I want to play that way. Forcing me to be evil or be under armored, under armed, or miss out on other advantages, while I am paying to play the game every month, is going yo stop me playing that game. I get to play how I want to play or that game can go straight to hell. My answer to that is, 100%, no. No, every time. Anyway, that's my assessment of Final Fantasy Online, as it compares to other mmorpgs and my thoughts on them as well.

Thanks, and yeah I generally try to stick to point in my videos because as a person I don't like wasting other peoples time.

Welcome! Are you still enjoying it?

@@Tailionis sure am ;) got to level 60 jobs and one level 30. Haven’t had crazy much gametime. But I’m enjoying it. Something I’m not great at is the level sync though. I deliberately don’t do my job quest until I’m same msq level currently level 49. I can’t wait to do some raids and try the pvp out. I loved pvp in wow. But I realize the action bar is complete new. But i tested it a bit on a dummy and it seemed kinda cool. Great game 100%

lol what do you expect? FFXIV is ff game with story and cutscenes....but I get what u are saying, even in other mmos, people have become distanced.

I debated on devoting a section to music, but ultimately I determined that while the music is phenomenal it's not something this going to sell a new player because for many people the soundtrack is going to be a secondary factor when determining if they want to play a game, and part of that is because you can enjoy an ost but not necessarily the game or vice versa. That being said I do consider ffxiv's music to be one of it's strongest aspects because well Soken is a genius. Furthermore, I think many of the best songs in ffxiv need to be experienced to fully appreciate which makes talking about some of the best examples difficult with out spoilers. For example, I used "Neath Dark Waters" as a background song. By itself it's an amazing piece of music, but to really experience that song you need reach that moment when it first plays.

Well i get you on that Piont but for my Expierence it was Contaiment Bay Wich really Hoked me up through ARR. But yes OST is somthine you could enjoy without Playing the game. But here my Honest feelings waht Really Hokked me to stay und play the game was Ex Trials might be a bit ood but yeah thats what Really Hooked me. I dont wanna give you contra or something it was just the thew Things that came to my Mind when i Watched your Video so... Sorry i Guess. Sorry to make this up @@TheNastyNamazu

@@ManabiscuitEU No it's fine I just was explaining my reasoning for why I didn't have a section on the music.

I think they've changed this at some point. I know a few weeks ago I helped an fc mate with this link the steam version to his existing account. support.na.square-enix.com/faqarticle.php?id=5382&la=1&kid=67470&ret=faq#:~:text=Yes%2C%20by%20selecting%20the%20same,with%20only%20a%20single%20subscription.

I played in PS4 couple years before I moved play on PC and its true that you need buy game again, but you can register it no matter what in same MogStation account and that way play same chars what you created in another platform. If you register that another platform version in different MogStation account then yea you need start 100% again in PC. In PS4 you have your old game and chars.

@@Queen_Elyana This is what I did. Originally was a PC player, linked my mog station account to a PS4 version, then moved it back after purchasing the expansions for PC. I went through SQUENIX though, not steam. So I guess that made it a little better.

Sounds like a password problem. PS5 can save your password for future use, but PC has to type it in every time. Doesn't sound like a game issue.

How do you get the samurai?

@@Illusionarymaster theres a quest in uldah once you DoW or DoM reaches level 50

The MMO elements are severely neglected though. Of all the MMO's i've played, i find FFXIV to be the loneliest. There's no sense of community, and there's just no interesting long term goals in FF either.

@@GoatOfWarAre you just on a dead server or what? Im on Siren and the social scene is alive and well. So im not sure what you mean.

ARR while poorly paced, sets up the foundation of foreshadowings referenced in the expansions. Even Endwalker still harks back to what was done in ARR. Primal arc is when it picks up, not Heavenward.

@@HyouVizer you are right i just wish it didnt take me 100hrs of pain to start enjoying the game.

What do u mean? The open beta is coming to Xbox later today and I can’t wait to try it out.

@@HawkNocturnal just dont judge the game too harshly until u reach heavensward. Try to push through if ur bored. It's worth it.

I wouldn't touch either of those with a 20 foot pole

Play ffxi.