So, I've been FFXIV quite a bit, and I would like some comparison to other MMOs I haven't played.
Aside from it, I have played WoW and EVE, and very small amounts of other games.
What I like from xiv is the cosmetic character customization options and being able to classes classes immediately. What I dont like is the idiotic restrictions it has for the fashion system (WoW has a better fashion system, wasted on a game with such horrid costume design), and how there's barely any player interaction even on instances with other players. You just do your rotation, avoid the ground aoes and barely care what the other players are doing.
Still, it's the game I have enjoyed the most, because I really enjoy catgirl dressup.
In WoW I could never play more than two consecutive months. I liked the leveling up experience, but it is over very soon. You outlevel areas before you finish their questlines. And then you have le endgame, I never got into it, I live in the south cone, so I have too much lag, also I heard it is too frustrating.
In EVE the leveling part never ends, but the constant possibility of someone blowing your ship makes me too anxious. Also no cute avatar (I know it has avatars, but you dont play as them).
So I'm wondering what other games might offer something similar to what ffxiv has, but maybe with better execution. I wrote this long to filter out the zoomies, they'd probably recommend some gacha carp.
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Get a job
I do have a job, but today is a national holiday in my country
Janka, why are you so gejs?
Don't care, post the cat's breasts already.
best I can do because I dont mod
My friend is like this and stopped playing ffxiv because she got bored of the nothing content. I dont think there is a game that captures what ffxiv does good. Shes played PSO and Ark and both she got bored of. Shes been playing a lot of genshin (i know its not the same type of game) which shes been enjoying i think similarly you might enjoy.
>tfw all game discussion has become filled with people like OP who primarily play games for dress-up sims
DD, MMOs, and utter tripe like Star Ocean. Truly a sad state of affairs.
games should be about doing fun things
catgirl dressup is fun, poopsock isnt
So running 60 m+ dungeons each week to keep up with gear is more fun for you I assume?
So buyying 60 fantasia and glam prisms each week to change your character's looks is more fun for you I assume?
smartest WoW player take
There it is dood... he won't return to ff14...
Good, we don't need more of his moron fanbase polluting the servers
>So buyying 60 fantasia and glam prisms each week to change your character's looks
I knew a guy that changed his race almost every week, he'd buy a shitton of Fantasia with his SSI, didn't drive, didn't go outside either.
I know guys who pay 45 euros/dollars each for 10+ characters in WoW to transfer their characters and faction change all their characters to play on different servers, and they do it often
that's like 450 bucks each time
>60 fantasia
Im staying catgirl, thank you
>glam prisms
I buy a stack every few months using seals, that I get a lot and dont use for anything else
glam dresser almost nullifies consumption of prisms
That's the main appeal of FFXIV bro. The dress-up. Ton of Second Life refugees hopped ship as well which is why the modding scene is so fricking disgusting with freakish mod beasts everywhere. Fact of the matter is that you're sticking around for either
>The (e)RP and dress-up doll scene
>AND raiding
Most of the autistic raiders who stick around also (e)RP. Not even an exaggeration. I think they need to justify the huge amounts of downtime in the game with sweet frick all to do so they fall into the typefricking rabbithole. Poor c**ts.
Schizophrenia.
It's not. Play the fricking game yourself and get into the raiding scene and you'll see how true this is.
You're looking for a greener pasture that just doesn't exist. If you want player interaction, do content where it is mandatory and make some friends along the way.
>game with the most high IQ story turned into catgirl dressup simulator
there are worse outcomes i guess
I do like the story, and the best part is seeing my catgirl in the cutscenes
do you not get enough attention in /xivg/ that you have to some and avatargay on Ganker?
I bet you also like Rick & Morty
i thought the first season was okay when it was new. then second season i dont remember. stopped watching.
>I would like some comparison to other MMOs I haven't played.
Try other MMOs yourself.
The opinions of other people probably won't be your experience and there will be things other MMOs do 20x better than FFXIV in the long run and you'll see how terrible archaic it is.
properly trying an MMO out takes about a month
I played several others, but mentioned WoW and EVE because those are the ones I played for at least a month
>properly trying an MMO out takes about a month
You don't want an MMO then, you want a dress up sim.
I want an MMO so I can show my costume to others and see theirs
MMOs have most of their costumes locked behind progress/paywall
>MMOs have most of their costumes locked behind progress/paywall
And you don't want an MMO, that's the point of them, progression. Don't want to do the work to get nice shit? Don't play an MMO, stick with FFXIV or Second Life.
before trying out mmos I want to knows which ones are worth the time
maybe they seem like shit at the start but get better? or maybe they are crap all the way?
>before trying out mmos I want to knows which ones are worth the time
According to you, none of them.
Because you don't like progression, you just want to dress up, you don't like being paywalled either, so MMOs with gacha are out, and most mmos don't have generic catgirls (maybe the occasional cat ears accessories).
Go with second life.
Go farm invincible for 2 years and your tmog farm
Don't play WoW, not my kind of MMO.
>Because you don't like progression
I do like it, but not just grind grind grind le big number
or is that what you think progression is?
Don't bother with the WoWtroony
>I do like it, but not just grind grind grind le big number
>or is that what you think progression is?
And you probably think progression is, one run to get a pretty item.
Mmos are made to waste time, FFXIV was made for people who don't actually like mmos but never played one, so it's instant gratification mechanics are appealing to most.
NTA but bajilion times grinding something that could've been a 20something run grind is autistic, equally stupid as "one run = progress"
Never said grinding a billion times wasn't stupid.
Hell, FFXIV is full of that kind of grinding, just presented in a different way.
it's called farming because it's like farmers who endlessly farm something to make a living. they don't stop at one time, they dedicate their whole lives
lul, my sister plays WoW and she farmed Invincible for 7 years
do you really believe progression is kill the same guy 1000 times to get a reward?
mmos are about doing fun things with other people online, it doesnt have to be grinds
>mmos are about doing fun things with other people online, it doesnt have to be grinds
Never said it wasn't.
OP only seems to like the dress-up portion, but doesn't want to put in a bit of work to get some dress-up stuff and complains other mmos aren't like FFXIV because they're actual mmos.
Do you have nothing better to do than to go into every XIV thread to express your dislike for it?
inb4 removing (you) from the posts
Grifting in every XIV threads is grinding too, we're progressing you Second Life moron
But I don't dislike XIV? I like it quite a lot, I dislike tards like OP who engage with it as an e-dating and RP platform, which it isn't. Transfer your character to Balmung and stay there if you can't function without that part of the game.
>as an e-dating and RP platform, which it isn't
says who? why?
are you a raidlogger?
>says who?
The game itself? It's a story driven RPG, not an online dating platform. You literally have no argument.
a multiplayer rpg, where players are meant to play roles, and those roles can be whatever they want
No, the ROLE is Warrior Of Light, not village prostitute. You ERPing moron.
the WoL canonically has a social life outside of killing gods
OP is asking people what other mmos are like FFXIV so they can play dress-up.
>work
so, you believe mmos have to be second job
on a more serious note, I'm asking people on a gaming imageboard for their experiences and comparisons with other games because it is faster than trying dozens of games to see if I like any
you're just being a contrarian
>Ganker being a contrarian
newbie?
Have you tried Sims, troon?
hush, go back to m+ farming, you're behind before reset, i mean, you love the m+ farm right? It's FUN... right?
No one in this thread outside of OP even mentioned WoW, why the hell does it live rent free in XIVgays heads?
of course it's fun, BIS in WoW means something, unlike the troonygameXIV where it's just an excuse to lock people out of "tougher" content...
BIS in WoW means nothing, it means you're about 10 years late for quitting the game that most sane people quit in Wrath
BIS in WOW:
>endless unforgiving grinding
BIS in FFXIV:
>done in 7-8 weeks not because you need to grind that long but because there's a weekly lock
which one is better?
I'll take the latter cause it respects my time more than the former
I wish they would have the 900 tomestone cap at all times but eh, given the choice between those two I'll take the 7-8 week farm
>respects my time
You play a below average single player visual novel where 90% of the time you spend being bounced around npcs like a moronic pinball for no reason whatsoever other than to pad out your gametime
Dont even get me started on shit being timegated to frick, like the shitty island
You obviously dont value your time shit slurper, quit it
That's quite a bit of mouth for someone who spends all his time in WoW to get BiS only to not be able to clear the hardest content, why do you even do it then?
Daft c**t
>Grind as much as you want for pieces of gear
Vs
>Grind as much as you want for 1 fricking piece of gear and get locked out for the rest because of poor content longevity.
I don't even play mmos anymore because the shit they offer for a monthly fee, box price and cash shop is laughable
But have you tried Sims, troon?
>Don't want to do the work to get nice shit? Don't play an MMO, stick with FFXIV
I remember when hardcore WoW players/streamers saying that Ultimates are way harder than anything in WoW
what the frick are you wearing
i like gw2
but a lot of people have a hateboner for it
Warframe has a ton of content, lots of great designs, can ignore party play(except for trading which is admittedly a huge chunk of the game), and a choose-your-own-adventure gameplay style.
If you can break past the terrible early game then it's a haven for people that like dressing up and collecting things
finally an actual answer, thanks
Np! I think warframe is great because there are so many diverse gameplay styles
>Excal turns the game into MGR-lite
>Titania makes every mission into a space shooter
>Nekros is like an RTS where you raise the dead and control them against the enemy
>Protea is designed after the TF2 engineer with turrets and a dispenser
>Khora is a BDSM experience
>Nidus is like Plague Inc but in quantity instead of reach
If there's a kind of theme, elemental alignment, or idea you want to embody, warframe probably has the tools for it. Pacifist monk, gunslinger, healing angel, primal wolf lady, fat devourer guy, the Flash, whatever you want
Female WoLs will NEVER be canon.
Here's my advice: go back to the Xbox 360 generation of games and play the winners from that time. Dragon's Dogma, Mass Effect, the list goes on. The contemporary trends and state of the game industry is what happens when we have reached a position of mass consumption and lowest common denominator "best practices" to oversimplify your game experience into a narrative shell or social simulator.
There's good reason these games from the PS3 era are all getting remakes and remasters— not just because that's a quick way to turn a profit, but because games were better then.
Play FFXIV socially for roleplay like me and then go back to playing good games when you want something meaningful or with any depth that doesn't demand obscene cutscene durations of stock animations and emotes. FFXIV's best quests are job quests anyway.
Pic related, I give a hoot.
TL;DR second Life moron.
I tried second life but never could get into it
what do you even do there?
Exactly what he said, stand around and RP with your barbie doll. And if he enjoys that so much, he can just go back there.
>Mass Effect
You probably got some nostalgia for it, but it was never a good game series
Ff14 very good game wife love it too. We like explore linsa and kill powerful monster. We has many epic moment becouse of story and sometime she cry! Haha! Unbeliefable
India ping bad but can play
try gw2, is a not as anime pretty as ffxiv, but it has a cool fashion system, you can group or chill at your own pace, no sub, and you can get gems for gold in game to get more fashion stuff on the shop.
>you can get gems for gold
>Getting gold is a grind OP doesn't want grinding, and buying gold is paywalling then
>And before you say it, some content is paywalled, OP doesn't like that either
with the new dailies is easy af to get enough gold in a week to buy one or two things from the shop each month without trying the grind
Dickless troon. Mod skyrim for dressup. You can also have a harem of naked bawds serving you. Its free too
Play FFXI
Its still good, has good customization (lockstyle) and has class switching like XIV
is retail XI good? heard it's a bit clusterfrick and to try private servers...
I prefer retail. I know some people will get really upset at that but it is what it is.
Theres not too many bots if you play on a server other than Asura. Bahamut has the next highest population.
OSRS
Osrs is for autistic grinds, not dressup
not true look how cool i am
How you liking the new league anon
How about:
>Star Wars: The Old Republic
>ESO
>Neverwinter
>cannot make a ffxiv thread without people shitposting about wow
Make a WoW thread to shitpost about ffxiv
>Make a WoW thread
I'd rather not
Shitposting aside, the only game i can realistically recommend to this homosexual OP is BDO
I dont think anything beats it when it comes to coomer shit
>the only game i can realistically recommend to this homosexual OP is BDO
>Paywalled
>They can't stand around and erp with people, graphics aren't "anime" enough and there aren't catgirls in it
Speaking of ERP mods and glam.
Glam or mod for this feel?
late allagan melee sets, but they have sleeves
How come no one notices that they get more "whole" every umbral calamity if what Emet says is true?
FF mmo should have old models (like Beatrix) with a better engine
Let me see what's under that dress, love
where are the lewd lalas
In Satasha
lalas are not for lewd, only hugs, pets and dotes
No wonder they are frustrated