How Final Fantasy XIV is Reviving MMORPGs

The mmorpg video game genre has been in a really strange place over the last decade. We've seen countless games from closed years past turn their money model into a free-to-play game or even get full overhauls. You can count on less than two hands of the amount. of mmos can only be played with a monthly subscription these days and that's crazy, from the origins of the genre with meridian 59 to the initial huge success of ultima online and everquest and the less popular ones like ashran's call and dark age of camelot with the first

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, it is practically a currency. decide if it's still running or not, let alone active puzzle pirates, any, a vast majority of all mmo style games or games as a service, things like your destinies, fortnites or whatever flavor of the month consumes a lot time, they have really embraced the freemium model which you can't have any problem with, but when the wall hits, it really hits, however, there have been two games that haven't strayed from the monthly subscription model that are still going strong today. , World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14.

Look, there aren't even enough MMOS like These for me to even make a joke like what do I tell in the desert in Final Fantasy xi also damn, a lot of people still play 11 despite it being more old that wow, good for all of you, but the topic of today's video, yes in fact you do it. knowing how to read is how Final Fantasy 14 is

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the MMORPG genre, an entire subset of video games that has been largely dominated by a single product and is currently in a deep fall from grace not only in the eyes of gamers but also eyes of the entire industry, so I'm Austin and today we're talking about mmo role-playing games.

I've been playing these on and off since I was 10 with the original online

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star, which for some of you might also be the beginning of the end from an everquest test on an AOL record CD in World of Warcraft to almost all the free games you can imagine. I've probably played more and then some hours of my life are lost to dead servers in an unspeakable amount. Rest in peace Wildstar, but before we get to Final Fantasy 14 and World of Warcraft's many reductive expansions, we need to start with the basics. Are you hungry? Do you need a snack?

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Mmorpgs video games many of them many MMOS we have to talk about Final Fantasy 14 1.0 a very, very, very poor game. I'm actually one of the few players who also spends a decent amount of time on it, the proof is in my Return to the original incarnation of Final Fantasy 14, as I'm sure most players and viewers know, was a complete disaster, the engine was full of all sorts of problems, I mean if you could get the game to run, this thing was a system hog and pretty much any remaining footage you can find runs terribly, let's not forget about the glitch from the potted system, this game had a lot of problems, there is the lack of an auto attack and the terrible hold system instead of an auction house, yes you want to find something. items to buy, go dig in a room full of everyone else's servants, is this good or what's with the fatigue system that limits the amount of XP you can get per job each week?

Of course, there are the game engine's crystal tools, which are the worst in the original incarnation. of Final Fantasy 14 Online was so bad that remnants of its spaghetti code still affect its most current version, but that's another topic. Basically what I'm saying is that players of the beta and 1.0 versions of the game are in bad shape and are basically returning to Final Fantasy. xi is a much better game at the time, of course, if you can get past the registration process to play online, it's a lot harder than it looks. Many know the story of yoshi p nuking 1.0 in preparation for its review, a kingdom that is reborn by literally attacking the world.

It was a story involving a world-ending calamity and your boy Bahamut doing his Final Fantasy VII thing, except no one will rise again after that. It was an impressive scene on the servers and a hopeful start to the reboot of a video game that I decided its future was the past modeled after the dominant MMORPG World of Warcraft, so I started making this video before all the absolutely horrible accounts began to come to light and culminated in the state of California literally suing the company for its abusive culture. towards women as much as I oppose this behavior and will not support Activision Blizzard in any way in the future.

Wow is directly related to the success of Final Fantasy Wow was considered baby's first mmo due to its incredibly accessible nature. gamer aroma, you needed to be familiar with a lot of the systems that came with d and d to be able to understand stat priorities, and sometimes interacting with the world was just difficult in world of warcraft, on the other hand, well, it became The standard bearer of most MMOS advanced with its user interface and very quickly became one of the most popular video games of all time. It became the topic of news around the world.

It became something that could prevent you from getting a job. Hell, I have one of the most famous ones. South Park Episodes It's not every day a video game becomes a household name, but it sure did for better or worse and continued to grow. I had originally left it during Knacks in Prague because I may have done poorly in school and gotten in trouble. Hey, it was 15 years ago, but I showed up again in Wrath of the Lich King to finish it off. It has a story that had been created for so long. It's worth it.

It's over? No, it's as fun as having an ice crown citadel defeat the lich. king time and time again it seemed strange to me that there was really no reason to go back and do old content at level 80, there was no way to approach level 70 raids other than creating a new character and freezing their level like you would for level 19 or 29 pvp and that's a lot of effort for something that no one is going to do, basically I completely missed a complete expansion that to this day I know nothing about, unfortunately this is the trend that we are going to follow talking, but Hey, none of that really matters, with Blizzard announcing higher and higher subscription numbers year after year, it became the mmo to play, after all, no one wants to jump on an mmo with lower and lower numbers because to the audience it looks like the game is dying, it's kind of a quick chain effect that makes games disappear pretty quickly when people think it's dying so they don't try it because they think it's dying and then it actually dies , so the concept of the wow killer was born in a very, very embarrassing period.

Occasionally everquest 2 was also released around the same time but it didn't really manage to capture that audience but I will never forget slash pizza who could guild wars? it was ok, matrix online, rip dungeons and dragons online, yes they had another one before, never in winter, it was ok. Richard Garriott's tabula rasa closed a month after playing free or Hammer online. I actually love this game, but I think normals are afraid of Warhammer Rift. Oh Rift, I ranked hardcore in Rift and was the main tank of a guild that had the second server. The green scale game was sick, but you know it died.

Final Fantasy 14 1.0 came out in this time period and was kind of a joke in the mmo scene, like people were looking for an alternative to Wow and people wanted a sequel to Final Fantasy Xi now. 11 is really interesting here, a lot of people seem to forget that it actually came out two years before World of Warcraft and holds its own as a paid subscription mmo, one of the only ones to have a much less generous trial than 14 as well. which is funny, I'm not kidding when I say I played it all back then because of the way I rate it on dc Universe ranked Tortanic and I quit MMOS with Tara because I realized she wasn't having much fun for me anymore.

Wildstar held on for a while but eventually ended up closing and people flocked to these games every time Wow was on a patch cycle and left in a mass exodus every time a new patch came out, so all of these games They just died over and over again. most if not all of these games were marketed as they were considered or in some cases literally used the word wow killer in their advertising and each one of them failed, 9 out of 10 times these games would generate a concept or quality interesting life. improvement and Blizzard would find a way to do some yankee splunky, admittedly this is a fairly common practice, but it was quite blatant at times.

World of Warcraft wanted all your time and their in-game mechanics reflected that as someone who had to grind flasks for their guild for raiding in vanilla was like a part-time job on top of everything else and you know what I loved it, I really did. I did and so did millions and millions of others, as World of Warcraft completely dominated the mmorpg market for over a decade. Eventually, other companies began to stop trying. Between 2003 and 2011, countless games were released every year, all trying to make a killing, while many of them have fragments of success here and there, especially in countries like China or Korea, where revenue models are different.

Blizzard remained firmly on top in recent years, the competitions have dried up, it's true that many of the older games continue to support their customers, but many of those games are just releasing annual expansions and no one is coming up with a great concept. or a killer clearly, this is all because Firefall failed at some point after the release of World of Warcraft's third expansion cataclysm, the numbers started to decline before this, the numbers were going up and up, but something happened, Was it Final Fantasy 14 at all, but at some point? In 2015, Activision decided that they were no longer going to report the number of paid subscribers.

Wow, if that had never been a good sign, well, I have a theory about what the problem might be. Over time,

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have become notorious as disrespectful games. the player's time and it has been that way for a long time, it is not even exclusively a World of Warcraft problem, let's not forget the absolute virtue of Final Fantasy xi, this boss could not be defeated after 18 hours of trying to cause several of People trying to vomit that's always fun, huh? What's up with Warcraft Scarab Lords? Sure it's cool and it's something that can only be done in a certain period of time and it's a great thing, but oh the numbers are absurd, this type of content really created a stigma. to the genre and if you were going to play an mmo that would be the only game you would play and unfortunately it did exactly that for me during my time with Vanilla.

I completely missed so many classic PS2 RPGs, some of which I still haven't played to this day (I'll play through five one day, I swear), but with so many great video games coming out and everyone wanting more of your time, the competition of World of Warcraft became not only other MMOS but every other video game in existence. mastering gender changespopular every few years and in the 2010s mmos weren't anymore, first person shooters were everywhere, then mobas took center stage and today battle royales are right up there with mobas uno next to each other. MMO RPGs still clearly have a market in this. period, but it is decreasing.

Wow, thanks, we'll get back to the current Warcraft spot since Blizzard is in a hot spot right now, but for now I want to focus on the rise of Final Fantasy 14 around the rebirth of a game that many, including myself, We were skeptical about Wow's initial concept, but now his Final Fantasy was a big turnoff for a lot of people, while it was busted. Both Final Fantasy 14 1.0 and Final Fantasy Xi had a unique gameplay style that wasn't just your typical mmo rpg tab objective

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xiv aroma reborn was released in 2013 to a decent amount of hype and a lot of weariness considering the name was quite damaged at this point, this came out during the mists of pandaria, the wow one expansion that was not up to par with gamers' expectations.

It's a game I played briefly, but it failed to capture my attention due to the fact that it was simply out of the genre at this point. The general consensus is that it is better than 1.0. did the bare minimum: a kingdom reborn is a game that made the best of a bad situation, tried to mirror what seemed to be working and created a community that was a good alternative with a name strong enough not to die after a month, sure you'll still have some casual 1.0 fans who have fortitude for punishment, but that's like 12 people saying things like kino and ironically Nightmare 1.0 was a massive open world experience like your World of Warcraft, while a realm reborn really scaled things back to deliver on the promise of its release on the PlayStation 3, which in retrospect sounds like it's going to be played.

Terribly, that meant that massive zones would be split into smaller instanced areas, maps would have loading times between them, and you would no longer have to navigate the nightmare known as the Black Shroud 1.0 had a more open approach to the game and the way it played. The story worked, but with the kingdom reborn, Square decided that they were going to put the main focus on the story, a really unusual move for an mmo, but this seemed to be an evolution of the way 11 worked, this time each area of unlockable dungeon class activity. and 99 of the items you get access to would be locked behind some sort of quest, the dreaded main story scenario or msq at this point, stories and mmorpgs were more of a background thing that you could level from 1 to 80 in Wrath of the Lich King. and I have no idea what happened to any of the characters in the game because of the way the narrative worked, your character was at the time a cog in the machine, a soldier to fight in Final Fantasy 14, they really embraced the old concept of the franchise. warrior of light dating back to 1987 with the original Final Fantasy, now you're probably wondering why they would make the playable character in the game intended for millions of people to play together the chosen one and that's a really valid question and To that I mean it's actually explained, but it may or may not make sense and it may or may not be part of the story, so we won't talk about it another day, okay, the story of a kingdom reborn plays out like this.

In any old adventure, you are actually a worker at the beginning, you are literally picking up dirt from the ground and trying to live your life, it is like real life, but it is debatable whether you are much sexier or you are a cat, I don't know. but eventually you stop picking up sticks and this is where rebirth becomes the great divide through hours and hours of world building. You get the introduction of a three-way political conflict, hundreds of years of warring factions, and the constant threat of the Primitives and the Garland Empire. At the time, Romberborne's story wasn't highly appreciated, there were a ridiculous amount of fetch quests where you spent a lot of time doing random things for people you didn't really know, for example Alfino in 2021, completely up to date with everything.

I love this character. but playing this story for the first time it's like who is this little idiot, get him out of here. He and his sister Alice filled the magical twins trope seen not only in Final Fantasy but in tons of other jrpgs and all I can think of is infinity. discovery dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner As for the gameplay, well people seem to agree with it since Mists and Draenor put a lot of people off.

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fantasy in the game they consumed a lot of time, they weren't really interested in the player's time relics, even in 2021 when you can farm.

At level 80 it still takes forever, but as someone who raided two different instances in World of Warcraft, watching video guides and clips of people doing extreme tests and the reels of raids from Bahamut and 14 was mind-blowing, this was much harder than anything else. I had done it in Wow, Hell in Wrath, I just played a wizard, which meant I just blasted an arcane blast over and over again until a deep vein thrombosis set in. Sometimes it's okay, so seeing a group of eight people dancing and being able to resurrect. in combat and having to deal with so many buttons was crazy to me too bad I said no mmos and honestly at the time Reborn might not have been for me the multi class systems although neat were very confusing and led to a lot of extreme elitism.

The test groups were easy to get up and running, but anger wasn't very uncommon and, frankly, the game lacked any real Final Fantasy insight. You sure had some good music. The visual style of Final Fantasy. The chocobos, but the narrative wasn't quite. jrpg level, however, was closer to being just another of the many mini theme park mmorpgs that crashed and burned, of course, until Heaven's Ward Final Fantasy xiv Heaven's Word was the first time in a long time that I saw an mmo without the words. The war and crafting in the title get a huge expansion, something that could be physically sustained with large press events and mediators.

Expansions have been a big part of mmorpgs for a long time and even games like Everquest have stopped releasing physically, however when Heavensward was announced and they showed off a bunch of cool looking dragons raining down from the sky. I think a lot of people realized it. I think a lot of people know the meme. At this point, you should try the free trial. Final Fantasy xiv. Bla bla bla. Critically acclaimed. sky expansion swore blah blah blah I, wait, is that hikuleo, what a shame, it wasn't my sign of the same night, the wonderful world is fine, look, John Moxley saw it, you know the critically acclaimed part It's not a joke, by the way.

I feel like Final Fantasy 14 fans do a good job of spreading the good word of their game, but holy hell, are we annoying? But the word from heaven is really good. The End of a Kingdom Reborn began to highlight more individual character moments focusing on the offspring that comprise it. most of the main cast to this day, suddenly, in the middle of the patch content, naoki yoshida's team decided to build the narrative, involve the player character much more and actually give us stakes and in some cases , loss 14 went from something to experience mechanically to something to experience emotionally other mmorpgs at the time, with the exception of star wars, the old republic simply didn't do this in an mmorpg like world of warcraft rift or any of these types In games, the main character is the world you are in. in the drama you experience in the world it's the character interactions you have, you're just another minion for the horde, the alliance, the jedi or whatever you do when the old man scrolls online, but in Heaven's Ward you're already the warrior of light You are a decorated hero who people now call upon to help not only with petty disputes and collecting cactus fruits, but also to slay a rampaging dragon and hopefully end the war that has been going on for years.

It's a little bigger than, say, being a helpful guy. someone else kills someone along with a completely new story the length of a normal full-sized jrpg, there were a ton of player quality of life improvements, three new classes and, well, countless other things to talk about and still you could play the previous content as intended. Fantasy 14 has always done a little thing where you can lower your item level and experience any of the game's instanced fights as intended, even if it's slightly different, it even removes your abilities and makes you fight at that level and While things have changed, such as the existence of tp or the complete removal of several abilities from the game, it works in a way that makes almost all of the game's content accessible to all players as long as they watch the story and unlock it. which you should, it's usually pretty good, that also means that every piece of content in this game has some story or lore reason to exist, which means you don't just stumble into a random dungeon because you reach the required level, even something so old and easy.

As the first dungeon of 14, Sastasia is always relevant because of the way the spinners and leveling work, and that's really cool, it means you'll probably be able to find a party for anything this game has to offer at any time, unless you're alone. queuing up his dps for a 24 man raid at three in the morning, please go to sleep and well, this is a journey that continues to this day, while the next expansion Stormblood was not as acclaimed for criticism as the sequel that Shadowbringers launched things into the stratosphere and it's all people talk about these days and Shadowbringers became one of the most reviewed final fantasies, which is crazy, one of the things it did Why 14 was so popular is its accessibility and I think being on console has a lot to do with that, it's the only major paid MMO for consoles on the market and I think that makes up a big part of the gaming population and I love being able to play with a controller, hell, game. on PC with a controller because it feels good, I think being the big main console mmorpg has a lot to do with that and now that End Walker is coming out in about four months and there's also a lot of hype, it's going to keep going up, I mean damn .

The game has become so popular lately that they had to stop selling keys online on their official website. That doesn't happen and I think you could say they earned it. I certainly think so, but right now countless players are abandoning another mmorpg en masse. amounts and we need to talk about why it's really weird to see titans fall, but I guess it happens to everyone at the time of this writing. World of Warcraft has three classic skus, The Burning Crusade Classic and Retail, which only refers to the latest expansion if I wanted you to be able to use your monthly subscription to play on a server and experience the game as it was in its earliest states from 2004 and 2007.

Now, this is not a new idea. Everquest actually did it for the first time in 2015 with a server that allowed players to vote on whether or not to progress to a different expansion, hell, even a rift tried it with rift prime, but that game was never going to have anything that it will last. rest in peace, but considering Warcraft has had countless private classic servers for literally over a decade. it's a wonder they didn't do it sooner oh it's probably because they thought you were wrong, you think so but you're not, and these classic servers generated a lot more buzz than the retail expansion at the time of Battle for Azeroth World of Warcraft.

It's really changed the way you do things. I can't talk much about BFA, but for the sake of this video, before the lawsuit information surfaced, I bought Shadowlands to try it out. I saw all the people abandon this game. I saw my data center and server and 14 flooded with all these outbreaks. I had to know why why everyone was leaving why huge Warcraft streamers were turning teams over. If you'd like to comment, there's been this 14 wow rivalry for years I guess, because we're both in the same space, only one has pandas and the other catgirls apparently hate each other, but that thought process is for smug basement dwellers bonding its identity to a consumer product manufactured by a corporation that moves in such dark lands with a new character. warlock with destruction specs i went from starting the game to running a raid finder version of ultimate chains of dominationof raids in approximately 30 hours, which is very short.

I have something to say, but in short, this world of Warcraft is now Diablo. It's no longer a game that wants you to take your time and explore, it doesn't want you to look at the old world, it wants you to sit in one of three areas and do dailies. Shadowlands doesn't want you to have unique interactions with people in the world, it doesn't want you to participate in world pvp anymore, it wants you to get up and get on the content and gear treadmill, it wants you to log in every day to remain relevant and wants to drip feed you things. to do until you buy the next Blizzard product, I know it's tough, but World of Warcraft now feels less like an adventure or a world to live in and more like a lobby with a small number of identifiable dungeons that are worth anything and enough insults in the chat to get there. a lifetime fee, I don't want to criticize the humble Warcraft because I think they do a lot of things very well, the way glamors or transmogs work in retail is great, if you collect an item you will have access to use it in any future glamor you want to do unless they're another class, in which case the raid dungeons are visually designed at a higher level and the game feels very snappy, but the only things you can do in that game are sort content or pvp, there's not much for a casual player to experience, especially not one who enjoys the more adventurous aspects of these games, you'll either be looking for gear, looking for a costume, completing your pact, or looking for a mount, that's it, do the quest , increase reputation, spin on item get reward one of the interesting things vanilla wow did was make you feel like you were part of something bigger, progression was slow and raids required practice and research, not today because it's all theory elaborate and written on a wiki page, but in the When it was a journey, you could have crazy moments with other players in the overworld and that's something that's missing in 14, but retail sets things up so that you collect like 12 different currencies that work together to make the number increase.

The narrative, as I'm sure many of you know, is infuriating many long-term Warcraft players and it seems like the game is on autopilot and, unfortunately, with all the news coming out with the lawsuit, the general conditions of Activision employees and conditions. lack of care for the integrity of their franchises, I guess it makes sense, there is a lot of care and many aspects to the game, especially visually, but respect for the player's time and money is not one of them, not even the relaunch of one of its biggest products, the Burning Crusade classic, was marred by microtransactions microtransactions in a game years before they were commonplace, it's a shame, maybe this is strange, but I was surprised to find that it couldn't play older content like was planned in World of Warcraft retail, I stepped away for years and have been playing 14, where I can do almost anything the game has to offer with any class at any time, but the way Shadowlands is 95, maybe even more of the world will be completely sterile. content that just sits there, completely inaccessible to normal gameplay, they added walking time as a concept to experience old stuff, but it's relegated to weekly events for an expansion, for some reason it seems like Blizzard wants to get rid of all the old stuff, focus into the new one and walk away because who cares about old Krusty games?

I am right? I just give them their own server and charge them 40 to skip a level, but ultimately that means raids like the Firelands Icecrown Citadel and, well, eventually the new domination shrine will become a Land arid where no one touches something you can run alone or with a friend once a week to try to get a glamorous piece but we will never experience it again as expected, well that was depressing, I think it's clear as day why . people are finally trying the competition's product, the only way to experience a lot of 17 year old content is to find a private server or go classic, which I find baffling, but now things go back to the stigma I was talking about If you had asked me two years ago what I thought about mmorpgs, I would have described them as a waste of time or exactly what the stigma involved, especially on the free-to-play side of things, however, Final Fantasy 14 is and sounds a bit cheesy. at the moment. remove that stigma and invite all types of players to your doors, I mean literally a moment ago a friend sent me a direct message saying they stumbled upon an RP Fight Pit arena.

I can't write that in Final Fantasy 14 Shadowbringers Patch, the relevant gear usually has a coin. You have to worry because you can participate in the new raids with a relatively low level of equipment and you can participate in wild or even much more challenging versions without much effort. In fact there is an easily crafted set of gear that will allow you to get yourself exactly where you need to be in hell, you don't even have to attack if you don't want to, you can do the normal version once to make the story clear and then vibe with some friends in the digital world and then get scared and run away, this game is much more suitable for the player who is a fan of cozy content, for someone who wants to be a cool avatar in a cool digital world, you can spend entire days learning about the systems of creation and collection in each of which is played.

With a specific rotation of skills, it's not just about collecting and clicking the button, it's a puzzle mini-game in itself, maybe you want to relax on the golden saucer, play a bunch of mini-games and meet other players, play a couple of rounds of triples. triad which, by the way, is still the best Final Fantasy card game or if you like raids, you have multiple difficulties, there is a normal extreme wild and the ultimate, all of which doesn't make you waste a lot of time clearing big dungeons of garbage monsters or corpses. running every time you die when you die it's like oh I'm down you don't just reset all my cooldowns come on maybe you're feeling nostalgic and want to try an older fight you can jump in there I probably have a cool mount for you . of the trials have some amazing moments and I'm glad we'll never have to worry about Suzanna or Cruz Chaser being unavailable due to their age.

You can really tell that Team 14 respects their legacy content and is interested in building great cohesion. experience instead of making a quick buck here and there, hell, Yoshida has gone on record several times basically saying that you should go out and play other games once in a while, like, hey, unsub, come back when we get patches, okay, ya who was someone who played. World of Warcraft in the past, you can tell it deeply wants a breather to be part of the experience. I haven't even touched on the quality of the story yet and it's hard to describe it in one go, but they've really outdone themselves, although they do have a team of writers dealing with different aspects of the game.

The last expansion was made by Natsuko Ishikawa, a woman who could write her way out of hell if necessary. I want to cover the entire story so far before Andy Walker comes out. so expect that for me sometime in the next few months, but despite my own reservations, 14 has ended up being one of my favorite Final Fantasy stories and I'm a fan which says a lot, staying relevant in 14 isn't very difficult or even important and the hardest content in the game is challenging enough to make it an experience that relies more on skill than gear checks and I think that's important by not deleting old content, having a massive free trial and many things that non-gamers can do.

I really see why this has been growing like crazy lately and that's not to say it doesn't have problems because they are there and to be fair, the server tick rate is really bad and leads to some premature deaths. Some boss mechanics can be really confusing to understand. the amount of particle effects on the screen is extremely overwhelming and will completely ruin your experience unless you turn it down, as with all online games many players can be elitist, although the 14 community is better than most, the story takes a time to start. The combat feels very basic until level 50 and the interface really needs an overhaul because navigating the menus has its own learning curve, but it's come such a long way that it's crazy to me that Shadowbringers came from Final Fantasy 14, the game that was a joke, but here.

We are potentially just days away from the industry leader changing even before the terrible events at Blizzard came to light. This change was happening and now it's hard to see it as we make this full comeback. I wish that wasn't the case because competition is healthy. and if both games ran at full strength it would be amazing, but Activision Blizzard needs to make a lot of internal changes before we see that happen. MMORPGs are a genre that can only have a few games in the spotlight at a time, but strangely so. Enough is enough, we've had a ton of new games come out recently, there's a new world, the lost arc, ashes of creation, the Fantasy Star reboot in line two, all of these games are apparently going down a different path than grime fast that consumes a lot of time and that used the genre. to know, someone wants to go kill mobs in the dunes for five hours, beat a level or two, anyone, I think Final Fantasy 14 is paving the way for a new type of mmorpg that doesn't need all your time and you.

I don't need to log in every day just to see a tiny little number go up and I'm happy to have been proven wrong on a more serious note. I hope that Activision and the entire gaming industry can recover and become a place where women are treated as equals and coworkers and not just harassed for their existence. I went ahead and included a link in the description to a charity I like, so be sure to check it out if you want to support a Good Cause and if you want to play Final Fantasy 14 with me, I'm on Excalibur in the primary data center and I'll be doing a new game in addition to running all the game's story content and preparing for my story videos.

I'll need some brave soldiers for my minimal eye level no echo of stupid, harsh content and you guys can sit there and laugh at me while I pull out a gray bag not really I'm like a purple guy it's good I swear. anyway, I'm austin and join me the next time I cover a video game whose video won't be monetized. Thank you very much for watching special patreon. Shout out to Blackfoot ferret gm pinks nick irving zach porter p funk ryan talbert kevin zanowski jordy mccaffrey karen arder brandon howell chris shelton david molnar irrational donnan j roose jacoby fitzpatrick christopher olivia dx buster and legendary thank you all so much for your continued support so guess who thought they had a pop filter for seven years but turns out it was a windshield and now it has a pop filter it's your guy i'm a pro i know what i'm doing thank you keep watching my videos please and i'll be streaming on twitch that's twitch.tv slash austin eruption some final fantasy and also some other stuff that will be a nice surprise.

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