Should I try FFXIV or is it a meme?

Why does that look like something from WoW

I love how all the SJW activists on twitter have it as their preferred game lmao

they dropped ps3 support like 5 years ago

u know the game is shit when you have to sell it to people on tits

It's the best MMO out there right now if you ask me, but there's a free trial that includes all of Heavensward so if you get through that and like it that's a pretty good indicator

>No class customization whatsoever, a class will always play the same.
>Cliche ridden and boring story where you're the big hero. ShB is heavily overrated and only remembered for the very beginning and end.
>Some of the poorest quest design I have ever seen in a MMO, game should be called "errand simulator online". You spend most of your time running back & forth with npc doing menial tasks.
>Devs are afraid to innovate for fear of 1.0 failure, so you end up with rehashed content and rigid gameplay. The game hasn't changed since 2013 except for stripping everything down.
>Too much FF fan service which is immersion breaking. Subjective opinion but it really hurts XIV's lore since it just borrows from other games.
>Clunky targeting system.
>Terrible netcode for a AAA sub "MMO".
>Boring itemization.
>Incredibly linear progression. Loops back to lack of class customisation.
>Claustrophobic map design, lot of invisible walls and poorly designed environments
>Idiotic level sync system which prevents you from using higher level skills, which totally fucks up your rotation muscle memory.
>All content except the very end game is mindnumbingly easy and even then savage raids aren't too difficult compared to other MMO's, specifically WoW.
>Open world becomes irrelevant pretty quickly. Everything is a lobby.
>Chore roulette/token instance simulator. Login, do dailies, log out until the next patch and do it all again.
>Awful PVP. Possibly the worst in any MMO ever.
>Infested with Bots (both pvp and pve) and gold selling spammers, an utter shame for an AAA P2P monthly fee game.
>Faux-friendly community that is petri-fucking-fied of being reported and banned for upsetting someones fragile little ego. Criticism is "toxic" here.
>Community is also infested with the most mentally ill people.

If you're gay you will love it

Is the free trial just for the subscription? Do I still need to buy the game?

I'm playing it now and it's unimpressive but not bad. It's a good way to kill time, but I'm not that engaged when I'm playing it.

unironically this

Unironicaly gets better on later levels.
1-50 combat is quite brain dead and the plot only gets decent at the end of ARR.
If you dont have the patience to get past that you might wanna skip

samefagging wowtranny

You're reaching hard with quite a few of those.

No class customization? Like that matters when they actually have good class gameplay with jobs that play differently from eachother. Compare it to its main competitor, WoW, for example and you have super simplistic classes where that class customization does jack all to make them good and fun to play. No complexity in the slightest either.
>Cliche and boring story
It's praised constantly as being amazing, so you're one of the few that doesn't like it then. Absolutely untrue on the beginning and end part of ShB too, it's a consistently good expansion
>Devs are afraid to innovate
Bullshit, they put out side content and main content that they know only a few players would play for example like Ultimates and that's just one example. One of the latest trials has you fighting a boss in a giant mech suit even. There's shit like PotD and the other deep dungeons that have challenge mode levels to them, Eureka, and so on.

Yer a dishonest faggot.

any good mods?

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>Should I try FFXIV
>try
It's free up to level 60 which covers the entirety of the first expansion so why the fuck not? You're not going to spend a cent on it anyways in case you don't like it.

You don't need to buy anything my dude. Register as a trial account, download the game and play. You don't have to pay anything to play until level 60 and there are no time limits.

You just play FFXIV for the story and music because everything else is just there.

>No class customization? Like that matters
of course it matters, it's an rpg.

i'm finishing stormblood right now and i must agree with most of the points except maybe community because i havent interacted much with it and pvp i didnt try yet.

It's still a decent game but clearly overrated by it's community like WoW when it released

Ui mods that add a classic blue window theme that SE won't after years of POTD cockteasing players with its gamemode specific old-style menu theme

Try? Yeah. THey recently added arguably the best expansion as part of the free trial so all you have to do is slog through the boring ass first part, which they also reworked to make less of a fucking chore.

>WoW, for example and you have super simplistic classes where that class customization does jack all to make them good and fun to play
I dunno, AoE farming in dungeons as a mage in classic WoW is more fun than anything I've done in XIV by far.

It's neither an mmo or an rpg

Unironically worth it for the music alone, flying around in some of the expansion areas is t r a n q u i l

>No class customization whatsoever, a class will always play the same.
>Clunky targeting system
>lot of invisible walls
>Awful PVP
>Faux-friendly community that is petri-fucking-fied of being reported and banned for upsetting someones fragile little ego. Criticism is "toxic" here.
I'll give you these. There is no excuse for a tab-targeting system to be so damn broken in 2020. Also in-game mods have too much fucking power and will penalize you even for shit you do outside the game. It's ridiculous.

half the game is free now, why wouldn't you at least try it? if you dont like it, you lost literally nothing.

Based Allods chad.
My favorite mmo ever, a shame it is extremely P2W and it's fucking dead

All mmos are shit. They're just toilets to flush your time into. Every minute you commit to them your life becomes irreversibly worse.

>People crying about housing
There's no problem with housing, only the players who do extremely unhealthy things to try and buy them.
Get over it, you aren't entitled to a house.

Worst of all
>WoWfags who want instanced housing

Sad but true
Music is great tho

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>jobs that play differently from eachother

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>flying around in the thaliak river area, sea of clouds or near falcon's nest

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If you are any of this
-Homosexual
-Tranny
-Weeb
-/vg/ poster

Then this game is for you.

Legit tried to log in for 2h and they didnt let me fuck square.

> no class customization in an rpg
The absolute state of mmorpg players

i'm about to fight garuda
how much more is there to the ARR main story?

This sums it up nicely.
My only gripe with WoW though, is that fights aren't genuinely difficult, at least since MoP. You don't have pugs wiping in raid finder, dungeons are all tank n spank, no mechanics, and mods ruin all the surprise of fights, while being an absolute necessity to endgame raid. FFXIV won't punish me because I don't have DBM installed, but in WoW I can literally be blacklisted for not having it.

like 2/3

>You don't have pugs wiping in raid finder, dungeons are all tank n spank, no mechanics
none of this is true, though.