I don't play MMOs anymore (nothing can satisfy me like City of Heroes used to), but just wanted to chime in to say I love your vintage anime character names.
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I get called out for it all the time in game, and I absolutely love it. ❤️
I stopped playing at shadowbringers. Till then, was playing since the calamity. Lil dark knight potato. Edit: I mained on Siren.
I played for a while and enjoyed it, but eventually it became clear the developers were taking both the story and the gameplay in directions I didn't like.
Heavensward was a great story, Stormblood patch quests were amazing. Shadowbringers had its very high peaks of course but even there they had started doing things in the story I hated.
they had started doing things in the story I hated
Like what?
It stopped being a story with unpredictability and actual stakes. There was a time I felt like anyone was at risk, even "main characters", and it was awesome. It just turned into more of a Sunday morning cartoon - which is fine - it's just not for me.
I also got sick and tired of them doing the "guess who's back from the dead?" plotline a bazillion times.
Well, you can add another "dead for good" main character near the end of Shadowbringers.
At the end of Endwalker, you take a jaunt through the aetherial sea (lv 89 dungeon) on the way to see crystal mommy.
The spirits of all your fallen friends (and a few foes) make cameos during combat. It really draws the story arc to a nice close.
I played for a lil while, trying to get into it to play with my friends. The only MMO i've gotten DEEP into was the original Guild Wars, and that is obviously a bit different from other MMOs, so I wasn't sure if it would be my cup of tea. I ended up falling off before finishing the base Realm Reborn MSQ. I found the same problem I always have with MMOs - the initial loop is really fun and addicting and I'm enjoying learning the world, but then I hit a point where doing the quests just feels like a slog to endgame. I did some dungeons with my friends once that was possible, and it mostly just felt like I was struggling to keep up with something that everyone else had done 50 times over already. It stunk that I had to do story quests solo, and could only really party up for dungeons. Much preferred the GW experience of playing the MSQ together.
Idk, I'm not trying to trash on the game, I can tell it's really well made and I'm happy for all y'all. It just didn't resonate for me.
This was also my complaint. I felt like it was missing the cooperative aspect of an MMO that I wanted. I think FFXI is closer to what I want, but it's understandably older and less accessible for a lot of people. I'm still debating when/if i wana take the plunge and just play that for a while.
I've spent about 60 hours replaying the intro quests in XIV trying to get into it lol
ARR was a slog. Once you hit Heavensward it picks up.
Yeah I hear that a lot, I tried to speed run ARR but just ran out of motivation before I got there 😔
That's a major pain point for a lot of new players. You have to invest at least a couple hundred hours into doing the MSQ to get to current endgame content. I know it's more about the journey, rather than the destination, but it sucks when you have friends doing endgame stuff, and you're still stuck behind who knows how many more quests in order to join them. I quit the game twice during the stretch of post-ARR quests. They cut the number of quests down since I went through them, but it's still a slog.
I used to play off and on. It was fun, but I didn't do current raids or craft, so after finishing the MSQ, I'd just level alts and chase mounts/skins until i got bored and quit. I also work evenings and was active late at night, so it was difficult to find groups for things. I played on Zalera.