How I Play FFXIV Every Single Day Without Getting Bored
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
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When yoship said that it ment one simple thing - he'd rather you be happy and have fun and stop playing with good memories, rather than "be forced" to play every day and then quit for good with a bad taste in your mouth. That's exactly what happened to me in WoW and is not the mistake he wants us to do.
Long term investment
my aunt is going through that wow rotation and im trying to get her into ff114
@@ohexenwahno5652 A good businessman.
That's literally what games should be about: having fun. High respect to Yoshi-P for holding this essential idea even as a businessman. We really need more people like him or at least acknowledge this in the MMO industry. I feel like it would bring lots of life back into the genre.
I instatly thought of WoW halfway reading your comment
Dont feel old...Im 51 this year and I love MMOs. When I was a kid and adolescent, the best we had were pen and paper (the true classic D&D lol). So, when I got a "real" computer and all of these MMOs were coming out, I was truly fascinated (and still am tbh) to be able to immerse myself into the visuals and gameplay that previously had been only a personal mental construct.
On a side note, I just last night downloaded the trial version of FFXIV. So, I am ultra new to this particular game. Thank you for your vids, as they helped me decide to give it a go.
Are you still playing and how far are you
I picked up the game 3 weeks ago and I am level 60. I rushed a bit through the content and I regret it now but I can always level another character and pay attention to the story more. I'm enjoying the game so far! The music is amazing and it's chill.
David that’s true and tbh every gamer should really be playing more than just 1 game , there’s so many great games out there to limit yourself to only one.
Which MMO's did you play. I started as a d&d kid too until like 1996. I'm a little younger than you but curious if we played the same games!
64yo here. 2 days in ffxiv. Sort of overwhelmed with all the content. But it’s the journey that matters to me.
I like to say that BFA is my favorite WoW expansion, because it was so bad that I finally tried out other games and found XIV.
Like i was about to say man how is BFA your fav? Like honestly? And then i read the rest of you comment and i was like: Ohh thats why xD
i'll always advocate that BFA wasn't nearly as bad as WOD but I think WOD was so bad people deny it existed altogether.
@@fablefan69 tbh i didnt play wod but if i did i probably would have quitted WoW much earlier. I play wotlk on private and i find it fun as i never completed full run of Icc. But i kinda grew bored of it over the last couple of years so i started FF xiv, if you are bored, try FF it is on 50% discount now complete edition. 😁
@@fablefan69 I enjoyed WOD. Bfa not as much. But i don't like that 14 forces dungeons on you to move content
@@Chey60 I totally dig that they force you to do raids and dungeons there you totally dif opinion from you
Ff14 feels like that soulmate you’ve always wanted and when you meet them all you want to do is give them all your time.
So true :D
And then get bored of them after a few months and dump them
@@justinbaley5938 not this one
The difference with XIV is that the things it asks you to do every day are...small. Though repetitive, they are small chunks of your time, and they are by no means necessary. Youd on't HAVE to do Main Scenario every day to grind some ludicrous reputation. And even when you've done all the things you want to do, there's lots of other things you CAN do. Triple Triad, hunts, crafting, PVP, achievements, glamour, treasure chests....
Most importantly, all of these things reward *you,* not your character sheet. They give *you* something *you* want, not fill a progress bar so you can keep doing more banal shit.
Did you actually just recommend pvp among things to try
@@holmesholmes.8784 >.> It's fun!
Od like to add practicing bard performances to the list of things you can do in the game
Pretty sure they have incorporated Kaizen philosophy in the game. Small, incremental things to do to have efficiency. After all, Square Enix is a Japanese company and they know these things, especially burnouts.
@@TransientWitch It actually really is. I am not big into PvP in most games, but XIV has the nicest PvPers and it's short, fast paced, and fun.
Playing with my wife makes it worth while to play it every day. She just finished a good portion of HW.
I play with my husband and going through MSQ together is an amazing experience 😊 we just finished Shadowbringers this weekend now we are off to do patches 😄
I play it with my dad (I used to with my mom too, but she got too busy:( ). My dad has already finished Shadow Bringers with both his characters, but because I started playing again (used to play back in middle school, but I lost my account oof) he made a new character to run the MSQ with me. We just got through the bulk of HW and I can't wait to get into Storm Blood
Man... I’m jealous of you all. I just got back into it, but it would be really cool if I could get my wife or a parent on board to play with me. Really cool.
I play it with my brother and he helped me reaching stormblood in less than a month
Dude we are in the same boat, my wife is in level 58 msq, so she is almost done with HW (at least the expansion msq xD, not the updates) ^_^.
Yoshi earned a lot of my respect with that quote.
For me personally the fact I can level up everything on one character makes it super fun for me. Getting all jobs geared and leveled it really worth the time spent in game.
Also the level sync system is really really good when you think about it, the fact that job rotations even if really simplified (SAM 50) are still fun to play makes the leveling experience and roulettes less of a chore. Also coming back to older content is fun, sure you get your Labyrinth Alliance raid most of the time but when you get something else it makes the experience a lot more fun and makes you relearn fights and encounters. And the fact that every job really feels different and is playable on the same character makes the game a lot less tiresome.
@@Nhouyengah SAM50 is kinda resident sleeper xD
WoW: there is a lot of stuff you have to do.
FFxiv: there is a lot of stuff you want to do.
This is literally the best quote, and it made my eyes brim with tears, I love this game. I feel bad that i cant play classic wow with my friends the way they like it, i just want to be in Hydaelyn bosom
Hildebrand, Inspector Extraordinaire
I've felt this experience also with Lineage 2. "the a lot of stuff you have to do" is applicable to a major part of the MMO in the market.
Except there's a lot of stuff to do in WoW, but not in FF
@@ememvladislav7521 there is litterally too much to do in ffxiv lol, i dont have enough time in the day lol
@@ememvladislav7521
Correction: There is a lot of chores to do in WoW
I love Yoshida's answer, that's exactly what I do. FFXIV still always has special place in my heart and I keep getting back to it and loving it each times
yeah, I started when the game launched, played for about 6-9 months and stopped when Bahamut Coil started to get stressful, came back when stormblood came out, played for 3 months or so and then again now with the april-may welcome back campaign... both times I've questioned myself ... why did I stop? Then RL comes and tell me "yeah, you should stop or you will get addicted again, like the old times" lol.
She calls us buns, then starts talking about carrots.
Must... carrot.
and rabbit holes xd
EDIT: and butts
OH I thought she was saying bones.
I get bored from the game when my friends stop playing and I am stuck by myself. I then end up taking a break and coming back at a later point. I think if I had people to play with I wouldn't get bored. Thanks for keeping up the good work your appreciated
You can feel the love in Eorzea. That's what keeps me there.
I agree🥰
The fact you can switch between jobs on one character - leveling has been my double-edge sword. AHH!
The problem is after all bonuses are completed. Once you finish those bonuses, that's when you can log off and wait until the next daily reset.
Blizz as a business is what made the magic go away. You really see that love and care to the franchise drain away after Cata. Activision, EA, Bethesda - all examples of Business over the Love of Game. I've really come to appreciate Squaresoft and FFXIV - when I heard what happened with the original iteration of the game and that they took it offline to fix it, that earned a lot of respect from me.
@@Khredlan Square isnt exactly exempt from shitty business practices. I like to separate the FFXIV Dev team and SquareEnix as a whole.
you musta' cachem' all!!! XD
@@Khredlan I'm an original pre-release player, Beta player from FFXIV 1.0... I bought the big pack with all the stuff since I was really waiting for FFXIV... I knew since beta that there were a lot of issues with the game, I stayed after the release for about 8-9months and came back 6months before the servers shutdown... what Yoshi-p and his team did was amazing, and for most of us at that time... something we said it was impossible. Some correction in there though, they didn't took it offline, the 1.0 version of the game ran for about 2 years (they stopped the monthy fee until like the last 2-3 months if I remember correctly) before stopping in... november 2012 (or was it dec lol I forgot)? with a pretty nice end, and then in august 2013 they released ARR.
When I first started, only a year ago, I got incredibly addicted and spent 8 hours a day playing FF even when I had a full time day job because I wanted to catchup to my endgame friends. About 3 months in I just cracked and realised it wasn't healthy. Took a long break and have since come back with a different mindset and taking content at a pace I can sustain, loving it now!
I managed to see a player, stand and pose in the SAME spot for months. Everytime I go to that town THERE SHE IS, just idol and standing there. I came back to the game after a break....she was still there. Dancing. Will she ever stop dancing. Some say shes still there....dancing.
You make NPC’s sound scary...
@@plaguedfrost1753 it wasnt a npc. It was a player
you are surely talking about the stupid ass jades on famfrit... the moron has 18 diff accounts online in Limsa 24 hours a day 7 days a week standing in formation dancing in the hawker's alley entrance, fucking over $700 a month to stand fucking AFK in limsa.... imagine being that stupid rofl
@@zeening mine was from the Jenova server.
Character name Mint Dew
For years, just standing in front of the same fountain. Not in Limsa tho, I forgot where exactly. But just dances...
@@zeening As a legacy player who's been dancing in Limsa for 8 years. I can safely say you care way too much about what other people are doing lmaao.
Getting old protects you from seduction. Stormblood taught us that.
Violet tide lol
Hahaha such a strange battle
Dude, that made me laugh way too hard! Thank you!
You win the internet for this comment lol
I actually took a break from FFXIV for about a year but got back into it around May this year. Taking a break was good and coming back to it now I'm seeing how much content and systems I wasn't paying attention to earlier
Right now is the best damn time to come back after a really long hiatus.
I also play every day and LOVE it. Even when. I want to "take a break" from a savage raid... I just shift so socializing in town or home decor haha.
Love your videos girl- hello from Aether Cactuar 😊
Perfect example: I've been on gatherers & crafters for well over a week now working on my fc's submarines. Havent missed playing battle classes at all. im having fun doing my own thing and nothing feels obligated to do.
Sometimes I feel like "If I'm not playing everyday i'm wasting the money I've paid for my sub" and this make me to leave the other games for later when my sub expires
I definitely feel like that sometimes. Add on the fact that I would loose my house after a break and I just keep throwing money at them :/
It's a feeling I had, but I no longer do. The amount you spend is negligible (at least for me), and time enjoyed is not time wasted. It's time wasted if you just play 'because I paid for the month'. Do you have the same feeling when you haven't watched netflix for a day?
I don't know if it'll help you, but the way I look at spending money on gaming is a 1$ an hour rule. If I buy or pay a sub for 15$ then am I getting 15h of game time out of it? If yes, then no big deal, if no then that game has to have something about it to make it worth it.
Even during content lulls I have never spent more money then time in FFXIV lol.
With that said, nothing wrong with only buying time when you feel like playing on hopping out when you don't. All that matters is if you enjoy what your playing :)
@@LuteaNelum That's a good rule to live by. I'm also getting more then enough enjoyment for my money, so I shouldn't worry about it :)
@@LuteaNelum That's more demanding than my metric for games. I usually use the movie theater as my benchmark, if a game gives me 2 hours of entertainment for every $10 I spend then it's equal (often better) entertainment value than buying a ticket to a movie theater. It's how I can justify having a sub for everyone in my family.
Although even at 1 hour per $1, most games are worth it.
I play every day without getting bored of. There are some days i absolutely do no content. I just enjoy chat with players i met 😀
Yes. Even the creator here keeps talking about BiS. I would bet my paycheck that 90% of players couldn’t even tell you what BiS items are for their class. They don’t care.
This is a raider assuming everyone thinks about raids. Most players never even touch savage raids, let alone anything else.
You should try vrchat pretty fun way to chat with random ppl
Let’s be real... if 5.3 has a dishwasher job we’ll do it everyday happily.
And then people would find the best rotations to clean em efficiently.
You should have seen us in Star Wars Galaxies. We had professions such as Architect and Cantina Dancer, and even more crazy, they could (initially) lead your character to being a Jedi. Architect was actually my final of three (hidden) class unlocks to become a Jedi. But even regardless of the potential for being Force Sensitive, those crazy professions had people drawn to them and playing them just for fun as well.
@@TeaMMatE11 so true xD it feels like right now i have the best rotation to clear grand cosmos and anamnesis anyder wall to wall, provided the tank can handle cd well.
no no. even when they cant handle cd well xD
Ranged dps, throw dishes that shatter into sharp pieces, squirt detergent in enemies eyes to blind them
I mean, you guys might do it every day, i'd give it a go and if it didnt jive with me, i'd probably not keep it going
Video title: How I Play FFXIV Every Single Day Without Getting Bored
Actual video: Blizzard is manipulative trash here's why
*everybody liked that*
Is it weird that every time I play any ff game, I always feel apart of something bigger? Like, I feel included and loved every time I play. I feel this magical feeling that makes me feel like I could escape somewhere else and be 😊 happy
This is my 1st week on ff xiv and it has been amazing. I'm a level 23 lancer and 18 Goldsmith atm. I'm just addicted
Welcome to the game.. hope you have lots of fun in Eorzea!!
You have such a beautiful journey ahead of you. Enjoy 😊
@@MilkAndSugar16 it's such a lush and detailed game. I want to find every nook and cranny through thorough exploration!
Welcome to Eorzea! ^w^
Your in for one hell of a ride! Welcome to your new addiction, with your lancers future job.
I’m brand new to FF14 (downloaded it today), I discovered your content when looking up guides, it’s great! You’ve got me really looking forward to becoming part of the community, something that was completely missing for me in WoW. Thanks for the positive outlook!
Final Fantasy 14 has so much content, it's like: "I'm the game playing the game disguised as ANOTHER game!".
I just found out about Eureka today and how big it actually is. Makes me excited to experience the new resistance weapon grind since :)
You don’t need to do dishes everyday - just leave them in the sink - then when the smell gets too bad, throw them away and buy new plates. Or use paper plates - then everyone wins
ewwwwwwwwwwww
Are you my roommate?
Haha dude. This guys is year 2045.
@Ricardo Santos I am the dishwasher :(
I use paper plates 🙂
I went on a whole day marathon this weekend; so many quests there’s always so much to do
I've completed all the quests (sidequests included), maxed out reputations, all jobs to maxlvl, got a fully furnished house and still got SO MUCH to do it's insane. at this point a new player won't run out of things to do for many years.
I know right, just when I finished all the quests I wanted, then I remember things like beast tribe quests,getting glams, leveling alts and doing the job story quests, and catching up with my crafters and gatherers, there's just so much content these days! Pretty sure there will come a day when we just won't be able to do all the things.
Hellooooo. I really appreciate your genuine positivity and honesty in these sorts of discussion videos. I haven't played much of WoW and the insight based on your time there is compelling to hear. Recently stumbled into your channel and catchin' up with your older vids. Keep it up and I'll be lookin' forwards to more like these. ⭐️
You got my sub, so many funny expressions, and arguments, and fun ! Your videos are interesting, impressions, feelings, experiences, emotions, i can feel so many things when i listen to you. Very good job ( sorry for my bad en,glish )
Another big thing for me in FFXIV is that it respects my time - there's no bullshit rng that keeps me from doing content. Here's a comparison if i wanna do the hardest content in the game: in a few days i grind out the tokens to buy the current armor set (phantasmagoria or neo-ishgardian sets), then i do the hardest content and get directly rewarded with BiS items.
in WoW if i don't get the "correct legendary" (in legion, when i quit) or the correct azerite traits and don't farm out AP constantly i don't get invited to groups. heck, being in the wrong class/spec will not get me invited to groups, which means i'll get left behind and get fewer and fewer groups. This seems very unfriendly and toxic.
The way that loot drops work in FFXIV just feels much better. In WoW you run endgame content once a week and that's it, you get what you get so you'd better hope you're lucky. If you don't get a gear piece that you want or need then it sucks to be you I guess. Oh and if it's old content then you can also only run that once a week even though it probably won't give anything you need.
In FFXIV the endgame content gives tokens that you can turn into whatever piece of gear you want to get at the moment. Also, if you're running a raid and want a helmet token but none show up or I roll low then you can immediately be rewarded for playing again. It's so much more satisfying to have guaranteed rewards rather than hoping for the best.
@@yraco1232 this is just one of the reasons WotlK was one of the last good expansions, the itemization then (badge turn in system) was more similar to how ffxiv's works today
@@ZeplaHQ
I played WoW since beta and i really liked the system in WotLK. You can run normal dungeons, get badges and get the outdated raid gear. You could still progress without spending hours on raiding. And then ( i guess it was with Pandaria or so) they introduced random stats on gear which was one of the worst things they could do imho.
If i run dungeons/raids and "my" gear drops i don't want to get a slap in the face if it doesn't have the correct stats. You can do that in games like Diablo or Path of Exile, but not in a MMO.
I recently started FFXIV (31 WHM atm) and i'm loving it so far. The graphics are nice, the story is really well done and interesting and although there's a lot to do i somehow don't feel stressed because i can't do everything i want at once. I'll take my time leveling my WHM, enjoy the story and then let's see.
Oh, i got carried away...anyway, it's great to have this badge system here 😅
Also, i like your videos!
@@ZeplaHQ First off, thanks for replying. I fangirled a bit seeing it.
Second, that's pretty interesting. I only went to WoW in Legion then left to properly start FFXIV (played a bit before but only to about 30) about halfway through BFA. Kind of weird to think that they had a system like that years ago then threw it away because slowing things down keeps people around longer.
@@yraco1232
I don't know if that was a reason, but a lot of people were whining that "casuals" can get raid-gear without raiding, even if it's a tier lower than the actual raid tier. It was pure envy that other people get better gear even if they haven't "worked hard" for it.
I CANNOT, and I mean, CANNOT go a day without at least logging in and do a quest. Its a MUST. I have gotten so close to this game, that I cannot live without it. It has become a regular daily chore🥰
Just started following you, loving your content. Thank you! I love your approach/mindset to the game and funnily enough, that open mindedness towards activity vs. objective based activity is actually better for your brain!
just wanna say your voice is so calming. love to listen to your stream while doing stuff around the house!
So glad you're enjoying the game! I'm loving the fact I get to share it with my wife🤩
There's so much to do!
...and as his wife with less than 40 hours in, I completely agree!
I play every day and have never grown bored. Maybe I'll play less once I finish all the MSQ but I imagine I'll still play never-the-less
I played through the whole MSQ in a month (quarantine etc.) and now after I've finished it I still love it. Every day you discover something new you would not have expected.
When I have nothing better to do, I practice climbing the Kugane tower. I finally did it yesterday, so now I don't really have a time waster anymore. xD
@@ohexenwahno5652 I have to try that too 🤔
@@ohexenwahno5652 Oh god, I tried for an entire day to do it but never made it to the top X_X
I'm in this weird place of getting wrapped up in so much stuff I love doing I keep putting off msq. I'm mid-stormblood and not feeling it as much (loved heavensward). I know if I press on I can finally get to more content but I so badly wanna keep crafting, learning all the jobs, making money, house decorating...and just running things for fun with friends
This may be my favorite video that you have ever made. Admittedly I enjoy just watching and listening to you talk (creep factor over 9000 haha) but seriously, this was really deep, insightful, and authentic.
"After playing over 9000 hours I have played in this game, there's still so much for me to learn." This is such a daunting and thrilling statement. I started playing 3 weeks ago and have barely dipped my toes in and I'm already blown away by the massive amount of content! This will take me years to get through what's currently in the game and I'll likely NEVER catch up. UNREAL!!!
What have you been doing exactly for 9000 hours then. You can literally learn several coding languages in 9000 hours and still have time to spare. How can you expect anyone to believe you that you've spent 9000 hours in this game and just dipped your toes?
@@bikerboy3k I haven't played for 9000 hours... Never said I did. I said I only started 3 weeks ago.
@@bikerboy3k LMAO your reading comprehension was just not there on this one, was it? XD
I find the idea of having that much to do and explore to be exciting and I'm kind of happy that I've only been playing for a year or so, with spans of time when I wasn't able to touch the game at all due to work and health issues, etc. I'm late to the party and have still barely scratched the surface on all the content and I look forward to how much I still have left to discover. I'm a person that takes their time in games and will just sink into big open worlds sometimes doing no quests and just existing and exploring.
I finished playing the MSQ and am now working on getting all combat jobs maxed to get the mount. Even Blue Mage
I took a long break because of college and came back to half an expansion’s worth of content that I’ve been enjoying every day for the last few weeks :)
One thing i am doing these days when i finish the daily stufs is Just spending some time in the gold saucer and farming those mgp, doing the gates can be very fun, i really like the jumping one , theres someting about seeing dozens other players jump and fall all the time hahah
is really fun :D. I like a lot "leap of faith" too.
I had not played FF 14 since ARR. Upon returning this game has become so much more. There are so many different little side games, events, etc to enjoy. Thank for your vids, they help me catch up on years of missed info:)
THIS, I wanna know. And for sure, you'll provide useful answers for us! :)
I’ve only been playing for about a month-and-a-half. The thing that has kept me so excited to keep playing is that same diversity of content that you mentioned. It always feels like I can take a break from MSQ to go do whatever I feel like. They allow freedom in what you choose to do, and instead of punishing you for that they reward you. Makes it feel good.
And the game keeps being the same, unlike wow that breaks previous content with every new expansion
@@globalist1990 wow died in 2012.
I started playing at the beginning of April so I guess I'm still in what I guess you'd call the "Honeymoon phase" but, I find that I don't have enough time to do everything I want to. This game is great.
Absolutely superb video, a lot of agreeable points made. Ive only been playing 2 months, started because of quarantine. Highkey have 17 days of gametime already because I was so determined to get through the msq but im still logging in daily, picking up random things and trying them. Theres still so much for me to uncover and try things. This game has so much depth and so much content to fit random mood. I spent an hour last night doing treasure maps with a married couple and it was so amazingly fun. I hope I never burn out on this game, because theres always a little goal to chase or something new to try, its great
the only time I get "burnt out" of ffxiv is when it has to do with the people, not the game.
The only break from this game I've needed was during the ARR patch slog. Once I got through that I've been hooked on the game more than anything else I've played. It's kinda hard to get tired of something that feels like home
YoshiP is just the best, what a guy. Imagine a world filled with people like Naoki Yoshida!
It'd be the opposite of his response, though?
I've been playing for almost a month and the fact that there's so much to do that you don't NEED to but CAN do is kind of refreshing. I don't have to craft or gather just to be good at the game, it's just...there. I don't have to do deep dungeon, but I want to. I don't even have to PvP or collect mounts or companions (which I probably won't if I'm being honest), but it's still an option. Even finding new glamours can be fun and exciting, and I like that. And when I feel like taking a break from msq I just find some beautiful vista or some spot for me to just sit for hours, take screenshots or just rp. It's amazing.
yeah you don't have to... but tbh you will want to at some point hehe... but that is the greatest thing about this game... you can do it whenever you want, you don't need to do it (as you stated), but you will want to sometime, and there will always be people in the same boat than you.
I feel like wow was an abusive relationship and as soon as you realize that and try to leave they suddenly start acting exactly how you've always wanted to so you stick around.
When I said "ok, I'm done with you" I uninstalled it and went into other games, then ff14 released something I wanted: NieR automata collab!
Also the Hrothgar...
That is literally how I feel. I'm seeing the major overhauls they're doing for the next expansion, specially regarding character customization, and lowkey want to play again, but no matter how nice the character model becomes it won't fix any other major problem the game has.
It’s true, I don’t play WoW, I have never played played wow, and likely never will. But I’ve watched so many videos of different wow content creators and they all seem to have the same sentiment about the game, atleast from what I’ve seen - It’s a thing they were so passionate about for many, many years and they continue to play seeking that same feeling that they once had but will never again achieve. This type of toxic relationship with the game seems to have given the player base an overall pretty dark and negative mindset.
Honestly I played with a group of friends and they definitely extended my sub time by alot. But we all had other games we would hop onto like apex or GTA so we would have variety and a lust to come back to FF.
We had 1 guy in our group however who just grinded 13 hours a day doing palace runs / hunt trains / dailies and he would get burnt out for days at a time. I definitely agree with Yoshi and think spicing up the games you play instead of playing until you hate the game is healthier
Super interesting video, I love the variety of things to do too! I learn something different every time I play it and that's what I enjoy. Bless Yoshi, I 100% agree with what he said though! There is so much to play and the game dev community should be about supporting other games as well as promoting your own. I personally don't play every day because I often do a lot of content with close friends who don't play as much, but it allows me to play some other games I enjoy whilst still being able to play through FFXIV with friends too.
Whenever I get bored with doing stuff on my main I start a new character and start the main story again. I really enjoy those first 20 levels where its so chill and the world isnt in peril and you're actually just an adventurer doing fetch quests. I find it a nice palette cleanser so when the next content comes out or I decide to undertake a new thing I can approach it from a non jaded perspective.
In an interview, Yoshida specifically stated that he wanted FF14 to be the kind of MMO you can enjoy regardless of how many hours or how frequently you play - you move at your own pace and have fun your own way. Love him!
I play every single day lol right now I’m hooked in on eureka. Been running BA chasing that clear. It’s sooo fun. Also crafting and savage content. Got my beast tribe mounts. Started in feb, 1085 hrs in lol
Just got my first clear of BA
Edit: I’ve now cleared BA like 25 of not more times lol We run it a lot and have a great time.
Ah! You’ve made me want to play again!! I’ve taken a break for a while, and this video popped into my feed, and you’ve inspired me to come back and play!! Ty!
First commenting; Came over from the *Other* MMO, and your videos convinced my switch. Its been just under a month and I've only shed a few tears so far. Just got moving in the HW MSQs. Thanks for all your content, and sorry for the long post!
Hildebrand quests are what made me want to keep playing.
"When you value joy less than participation," is the flaw in modern capitalism. We should be kinder to ourselves in real life, too.
Wow, Zepla. My spouse showed me this and let me say, you hit the nail on the head. I feel this way but could never put it into words. You're so articulate and I admire you! Definitely going to give a subscribe and follow you on Twitch. Thank you so much for such an informative, and, well, real/heartfelt video!
What I love is that almost everything you do is a permanent improvement or change to your character. Whether that's beast tribes or collecting aether currents or leveling up your squadron/trust system.. etc. It feels very rewarding to do something (tedious) once and then permanently have that thing or feature.
i take frequent breaks. at the beginning of shadowbringers, i went hard. woke up for launch hour-- bursted through the content to reach end game and get gear for raiding with a newly formed static.
soon after savage released, the static disintegrated. i had put in so much time and effort into that, that when it "broke up" i lost that passion to play. so i stepped away for almost 8 or 9 months. when i hopped back in, i was glad to find that i wasnt so far behind my friends who remained in the game than i would have thought. i never recommend or encourage the type of playstyle that i did. slow down.. take your time and give yourself some room to breath. the game aint going anywhere. i have taken many breaks in the past and will probably going forward.. youre never so far behind that catching up is unattainable.
Thank you for that response, truly.
The only time I ever got frustrated and burned out was when I was constantly chasing the newest savage and extreme content in ARR and early HW, also always trying to keep up with the latest crafting / gathering gear and books. After that I just enjoyed other calmer aspects of the game and haven't been burned out since.
I wouldn't play if not for savage, but on some data centers (Crystal) and depending on the groups you find, raiding can be a wholly negative experience just as easily as it can be fun with people laughing like a NEST video.
I just started playing FFXIV since patch 5.3 coming from WoW. Found you and this video and it got me even more excited to play the game. So thank you for that! :)
I love your videos so much 😂 I laugh every video and you make me want to play XIV once I finish a video. Keep up the great work! 👍🏼 Even just hanging out and enjoying the scenery with my friend in FF is fun. Like watching our minions fight with each other haha (her wolf pup and my coeurl kitty)
im just a growing sprout, i only recently hit level 50 and started doing all the millions of side quests that opened up.
and im having the time of my life. every victory is SOOO satisfying. Garuda Hard? shes not even hard, shes old content. but i felt awesome when my random duty finder team beat her first try. i just unlocked Labyrinth of the Ancients before i logged off tonight, and im pumped to try it tomorrow evening, if the duty finder will find me a group.
heck, i popped over to the Gold Saucer and The Slice is Right was up. why not, i got time for a minigame. ive never cleared this one before, its so hard. but guess what? i cleared it! i was the only player who survived it this time! its just a dumb little minigame. but i was so happy with something like that.
this game might not be the most mindblowing thing ever. its unfortunately not winning any huge awards every year. but you know what? i havent played a game thats put a big grin on my face like this in a long while.
"I'm not addicted, I just love to play really long"
I say these words whenever I play Factorio.
@@comraddisc2783 Oh god, Haha, that reminds me of the 43 hours I played in one go just having a sleep break of 5 hours and continuing with another 35 hours in Factorio.
Such an amazing game.
Your videos have made me come back to FF14 after a few years. Thank you for your passion and love for this wonderful game, it really shows:)
Always enjoy listening to your videos, great job! ~
Another thing, and I feel surprisingly alone with this when it comes to comparing FFXIV and WoW: am I the only one who finds WoW's specs mind-numbingly dull? They just get too simplistic and repetitive for me, the big reason I prefer 14 over WoW despite how slow it might be at the beginning is because of how exciting I find it to play 14's jobs. I really like the journey of unlocking layers upon layers of systems in the combat system.
I agree. Just compare wow fire mage mechanics with ff14 black mage... which job is most fulfilling ?
I agree and disagree. WoW specs definitely have dull aspects to them, but one thing I like is that you have choices with some classes of being a tank or DPS. I love warriors in both WoW and FFXIV, but I genuinely do not like tanking in either game. Which unfortunately means I can't really play the warrior in FFXIV, it saddens me a bit.
Patrick McCormack imagine though if yoshi p created a berserker (similar to fury warrior).
@@s.t.5993 That could be really groovy. I would definitely be down to give that a go. I actually just started leveling a conjurer. Far cry from a bulky warrior, I know. But I don't mind healing classes, and I never really gave it a try in FFXIV. So maybe that will be my spark to get back in the saddle.
FF14 jobs are always the same per job, with no specs, but the jobs themselves take a huge amount of time and effort to truly master, the fun isn't in builds, it's in gameplay.
I’ve been playing less than a year and I already have 2100+ hours across 5 characters
No regrets whatsoever \o/
I love the casual attitude this game has, where you're not punished with time-sensitivity and being made to pull the lever of a lottery machine. I play 14 literally every day for hours and hours on end. The secret to burn-out I've found is to learn to realize when you're not having fun for the day. When it's late into the night and I can feel my body getting tired or the grind is getting to me for those job quests... I stop, go to bed, and come back refreshed the next day for more. I feel like I get the most from my sub by not pushing myself past the land of fun and whimsy into the realm of lists and quotas. Those numbers can wait for you to come back tomorrow, there is no deadline.
I only took a longer break once, and that was the time I was in the hospital, in between only when I was busy with new PS4 games, but always played for raids, now many people say, they are burnt out, because the next patch was delayed due to covid 19, but I still have lots to do ^^
"Why is that? Am I addicted?"
This is the part where all addicts deny their addic-
"Yes, probably"
*shocked pikachu face*
"Maybe I'm just getting old and outgrowing my childhood pleasures."
OK BOOMER
I recently came back from a pretty long hiatus. I played a lot leading up to ShB, but then I stopped playing a week or two after the expac dropped. I kinda played a couple hours here and there because I felt guilty that I was still subbed, but there was always a lot of pressure to blaze through the MSQ so i could catch up with my friends. I picked the game back up probably 3 weeks ago and managed to go all the way through the 5.0 MSQ up through the end of 5.3 now, and I am so glad I came back. The story was absolutely incredible, and taking time off to clear my head and re-prioritize my time really made me have an entirely new outlook on the game. I'm really happy to be back and just be having lots of fun with all there is to do.
Just started playing FFXIV and come across your videos. Helpful and informative. Thank you.
Oh you would hear the suggestion from Activision Blizz..
"If you want to take break from WoW, we have lot of amazing games like overwatch, warcraft 3 reforged and soon diablo immortal" haha..ha..ugh.
Ive played nearly 20 days. I bought the game four weeks ago....
Never seen your videos but this video was exactly what I needed to hear. I have been playing multiple games without missing a day due to dailies and such and just don't enjoy them anymore. Its definitely time for a break. Thank you.
Picked up this game to get me through quarantine while it was free month on PSN for ARR. Within a couple of weeks bought the expansion bundle and am closing in on finishing Heavensward. Fantastic story and met a great group of people to help me learn the mechanics. This channel definitely helped with easing my mind of jumping into a tank role too. Keep up the great content!
I spent 2.5 hours yesterday just playing around and changing my UI setup.
Careful. I ended up doing this weekly. It was a nightmare. I've recovered.
This video is a cold shower of truth that i really needed. I have paused the game since i finished raiding and doing what i wanted to do and i found myself not knowing what to do without FFXIV and you made me realize that it's important to not stress myself out over a game! Tyvm
This video is well made. Great job! Keep up the good work.
I love this. I started a little over a month ago and just cant believe how many different things to do. And then i continue with msq and a whole nother mechanic to the game pop ups. I remember something as simple as the gold saucer took up like 3 straight days of my time just being there all day (litterally all day all i did was gold saucer stuff). Then i just up and start/work on another thing. I just love that if i do feel repetetiveness at all and start feeling drained theres so much content that i havnt even discovered yet. Iv watched streams and fb videos on stuff im like wtf is that. Dungeons are way different than the dungeons ive played.
This is an incredible video! Every MMO player should watch this. Play a game, enjoy it, don't make yourself no life something you don't like because you feel like you have to.
Great video, thank you for your honesty and sharing how you play!
This really helped me a lot. Thank you and thank you Yoshi. I do feel bad sometimes when I haven't been on the game in a while because it is my favorite game. Just like the person below said, he is the one who will cut you off if he feels you are out of control. I like that.
There’s so many things I love doing in this game. I’m currently trying to get my last 3 classes to level 80. I never feel burnt out and if I don’t feel like running content I can enjoy the scenery with my friends and take pictures etc
I'm absolutely loving this game so I understand how you feel finding things to do each day
When this whole pandemic hit I got back into wow because I missed having a job to do, wow is like work, but that was only good for so long and now here I am, having a blast bumbling around in ffxiv and it hasn’t felt like work yet!
Thanks for sharing this video - it really spoke to me. I've been playing lots of looter shooters, but your compare/contrast convinced me to buy and try FFXIV. thank you.
Wow that's a cool outlook from the developer and it's what i actually do if i get bored or dont have time to play cuz i have little ones but I've been playing for a few years but i always get the new expansions and come back every once in awhile
Love this video, ty Zepla!
This was such an amazing video and I really see myself in it. I have been playing WoW since Cataclysm and have swapped to FFXIV 4-5 months ago due to the unsatisfaction of the "carrot on a stick" mentality in the game and not being able to have attainable goals (BiS gear mostly), there is always that little piece of gear that is 0.2% better but damn I gotta have it. WoW started to feel like work and not like a game I log on to play and have fun with friends. I just recently hit 80 on my first job, and I am a couple of quests away from finishing the 5.2 MSQ quests. I have around 15 days of playtime atm and during my entire journey thus far (except for waiting in ques for dungeons) I havent felt bored, I loved every minute of it. I can't wait to start exploring my favorite part of an MMO which is the hardest PvE content the game can throw at me (so Savage and Extreme raids I believe). I can dabble in multiple things in the game without feeling burdened by having to do "mandatory grinds".
Shadowlands has to do something revolutionary to get me back full time. Yoshi got me in his grasp and he aint lettin go. :D
Coming from wow and seeing Yoshi p's comment blew my mind.... I have recently hit 80 on my first class and cleared normal Eden's verse. now that I have good gear without doing savage i'm taking the time to go back and do all the unlock quests I missed. It's definitely fun but I imagine I'll only be loggin on for a few hours a day instead of the 6-8 I was playing while leveling up. looking forward to the new patch
You are a fresh breath of air.