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ApherosyLove
08/16/21 12:18:04 AM
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Cons:
  1. I have too many games on my plate. Games I've started and games I've even yet to play.
  2. A monthly fee might be a bad idea right now, since I just recently quit my job.
  3. Will I even have time, between moving soon and job hunting when I get there? Probably not.
  4. I played the free trial already, and though I did have fun, it just didn't hook me.


Pros:
  1. Viera.

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DJquackquack
08/16/21 12:19:01 AM
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Its an affront to everything thats final fantasy. I refuse to support it.

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Caelthus
08/16/21 12:20:36 AM
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ApherosyLove posted...
A monthly fee might be a bad idea right now, since I just recently quit my job.
The free trial allows you play for free up and through the game's first expansion. So you don't actually have to pay for a good long while (unless you tire of the free trial social limitations).

ApherosyLove posted...
Will I even have time, between moving soon and job hunting when I get there? Probably not.
Absolutely. It's very pick up and play friendly, TBH. FFXIV actually respects its players time for doing content.


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Blue_Inigo
08/16/21 12:20:46 AM
#4:


Do it coward

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bnui_ransder
08/16/21 12:21:33 AM
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Dont

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ApherosyLove
08/16/21 12:21:45 AM
#6:


Caelthus posted...
The free trial allows you
to not play as Viera. So that's out of the question.
It's either bunny girls or bust, my main gauche.

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PatrickMahomes
08/16/21 12:22:40 AM
#7:


why wouldn't you

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TheRadiant
08/16/21 12:23:08 AM
#8:


Play a potato or cat girl. Viera are for weaklings

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Hexenherz
08/16/21 12:23:59 AM
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If the trial didn't hook you I'd say don't get it.

I fell into the trap of wanting to love the game. It has a lot going for it. But I just could never really fully get into it. Even now I see these topics crop up and I'm tempted to resubscribe but I know i'll play for two days and quit again.

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Caelthus
08/16/21 12:25:39 AM
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ApherosyLove posted...
to not play as Viera. So that's out of the question.
It's either bunny girls or bust, my main gauche.
I mean, I guess it's up to you then whether or not you think your experience would be made that much better by being able to play as a Viera. How far did you make it into it?

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Blue_Inigo
08/16/21 12:28:39 AM
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Do it for them

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NecroFoul99
08/16/21 12:31:49 AM
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ApherosyLove posted...
I have too many games on my plate. Games I've started and games I've even yet to play.
That might change to:

Pro: I quit caring about my backlog and stopped buying new games.

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ApherosyLove
08/16/21 12:32:02 AM
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TheRadiant posted...
Viera are for weaklings
it's literally my whole shtick

Caelthus posted...
I mean, I guess it's up to you then whether or not you think your experience would be made that much better by being able to play as a Viera. How far did you make it into it?
I got to level 43 as a dragoon but I can't even remotely tell you what happened in those 43 levels because I was probably on a lot of prescribed benzodiazepines when I played.

Blue_Inigo posted...


Do it for them
dammit cap you're not helping

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Zodd3224
08/16/21 12:32:17 AM
#14:


All MMOs are garbage

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ROOTFayth
08/16/21 12:36:09 AM
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if you played through ARR and Heavensward already and it didnt hook you then dont get it
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Garlands_Soul
08/16/21 12:36:47 AM
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I still can't believe the free trial doesn't let you get in a party with friends. Like that's most of the reason you'd play the game


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Dingydang166
08/16/21 12:37:11 AM
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Just keep in mind that for the next like 200 hours of gameplay, 90% of that time is just going to be you playing solo doing the MSQ.

I love FF14 but I would never in my life recommend it to a friend. It really just isn't a multiplayer game for most of the time you play it.
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ApherosyLove
08/16/21 12:37:26 AM
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ROOTFayth posted...
if you played through ARR and Heavensward already and it didnt hook you then dont get it
Oh, no. I was like way before any of that.

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ROOTFayth
08/16/21 12:38:56 AM
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ApherosyLove posted...
Oh, no. I was like way before any of that.
you can keep playing the trial then for free
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ApherosyLove
08/16/21 12:39:19 AM
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ROOTFayth posted...
you can keep playing the trial then for free
BUNNY GIRLS, MAN

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Allanon23
08/16/21 1:01:43 AM
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You can play the trial for free and then race change to viera later for free

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ApherosyLove
08/16/21 1:18:58 AM
#22:


Allanon23 posted...
You can play the trial for free and then race change to viera later for free
Pointless.

I think I'm gonna get it...

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008Zulu
08/16/21 1:39:59 AM
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How single player friendly is it? I don't have much time in the evenings for play, and I'd rather not waste an hour waiting for a group to do a dungeon.

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Allanon23
08/16/21 1:41:34 AM
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008Zulu posted...
How single player friendly is it? I don't have much time in the evenings for play, and I'd rather not waste an hour waiting for a group to do a dungeon.

Very. There are dungeons you have to do while doing the main story, but they are quick and the queues are much faster than say, WoW queue times

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Hexenherz
08/16/21 7:31:04 AM
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Allanon23 posted...
Very. There are dungeons you have to do while doing the main story, but they are quick and the queues are much faster than say, WoW queue times
Lol

Group content is mandatory for the progression of the story and if you don't have the right role or aren't trying to do the right content at the right time you can be stuck waiting a long time trying to progress. Like that trial with Ifrit, I only was able to do it because my FC helped me out.

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Reis
08/16/21 7:33:26 AM
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i dont know when you tried the game but que times in 14 are a joke now even if you are DPS doing regular dungeon shit
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PatrickMahomes
08/16/21 10:36:48 AM
#27:


Hexenherz posted...
Lol

Group content is mandatory for the progression of the story and if you don't have the right role or aren't trying to do the right content at the right time you can be stuck waiting a long time trying to progress. Like that trial with Ifrit, I only was able to do it because my FC helped me out.
The duty finder will locate randoms to assist. I've never waited more than ten minutes for a main story quest. Pretty sure I was still on the free trial when I did my first one.

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Hexenherz
08/16/21 10:38:00 AM
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You got lucky, and/or things got better since I played last which was a year or two ago.

Anyway I've only played a handful of MMOs and none had forced group content for the story except for FFXIV which is why I thought it was a funny comment (though maybe the MMOs I played were in the minority).

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Reis
08/16/21 1:59:49 PM
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calling it luck is pretty dumb when this game has an explosion of player population that its never seen before, but even then in the entirety of ShB it was never bad for que times
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TheRadiant
08/16/21 2:00:43 PM
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Forcing you to do group content is one of the things I liked the least.

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FabIe
08/16/21 2:02:38 PM
#31:




Hawt dragon girls

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Hexenherz
08/16/21 2:15:38 PM
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Reis posted...
calling it luck is pretty dumb when this game has an explosion of player population that its never seen before, but even then in the entirety of ShB it was never bad for que times
well I admitted maybe things got better from when I tried it. I just know there was content I would not have been able to clear without forming a private group with when I *did* play.

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ApherosyLove
08/16/21 9:19:33 PM
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I got it.

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TheRadiant
08/16/21 9:20:25 PM
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ApherosyLove posted...
I got it.
You failed to resist temptation

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ApherosyLove
08/16/21 9:20:46 PM
#36:


TheRadiant posted...
You failed to resist temptation
No, you failed to convince me otherwise.

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TheRadiant
08/16/21 9:30:18 PM
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ApherosyLove posted...
No, you failed to convince me otherwise.
That sounds like me

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ApherosyLove
08/16/21 9:30:46 PM
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Blue_Inigo
08/16/21 9:31:56 PM
#39:


ApherosyLove posted...
I got it.


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Hexenherz
08/16/21 9:33:50 PM
#40:


RIP

I hope you're able to enjoy it!! Which server did you go to?

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ApherosyLove
08/16/21 9:37:12 PM
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I just got home from work. Haven't had a chance to boot it up yet. I'll let you know what I do.
Might make a new topic about playing it lol

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Allanon23
08/16/21 9:41:48 PM
#42:


Hexenherz posted...
well I admitted maybe things got better from when I tried it. I just know there was content I would not have been able to clear without forming a private group with when I *did* play.

I played two years ago and didn't have a problem with queues, and then I also levelled three months ago and the queues were even faster. I've played WoW since the beginning so waiting 5-7 minutes is a blessing compared to dps queues there. The only thing that was a bit bleh was being forced to do Crystal Tower this time around, but the queue times were still fine imo.


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Hexenherz
08/16/21 9:44:26 PM
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Allanon23 posted...
I played two years ago and didn't have a problem with queues, and then I also levelled three months ago and the queues were even faster. I've played WoW since the beginning so waiting 5-7 minutes is a blessing compared to dps queues there. The only thing that was a bit bleh was being forced to do Crystal Tower this time around, but the queue times were still fine imo.
Never played WoW so I didn't have anything to compare it to. Were dungeons/group content in WoW mandatory for the story too?

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TheRadiant
08/16/21 9:45:16 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
Were dungeons/group content in WoW mandatory for the story too?
Sort of. The plot tends to end in the raids but you don't do those until max level and they're not required

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Allanon23
08/16/21 11:49:03 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
Never played WoW so I didn't have anything to compare it to. Were dungeons/group content in WoW mandatory for the story too?

Current WoW doesn't really have a cohesive story while levelling. It's a mess.

In Classic/TBC there were quest chains that led up to dungeons though, yes. Some of them were required if you wanted to do raid content. And back then there wasn't a group finder at all, so you had to join LFG chat and pray you could wrangle people together to go do Strat or Old Hillsbrad Foothills.

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thisisboris2
08/16/21 11:58:09 PM
#46:



fun cosplay parties

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KnightofShikari
08/17/21 12:04:40 AM
#47:


you know you could have still taken the free trial, picked the catgirl then used a program called concept matrix to change yourself into a viera. granted, you would have to change the model every time you load into a new area so it's not that convenient, but it is a way around the annoying free trial lock they have. then, if you liked it, after beating the main game's storyline they give you a potion that allows you to change almost everything about your character including race, so if you liked it at that point you could be a viera for real and stop using concept matrix

i don't think it's possible to automate the model switching, though i haven't looked too much into it. also the mods in the game wouldn't like you talking about it and to everyone else you would look like your original character, not the viera since all the changes are local

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OudeGeuze
08/17/21 12:12:49 AM
#48:


DJquackquack posted...
Its an affront to everything thats final fantasy. I refuse to support it.
14 is literally a love letter to all things Final Fantasy and a celebration of the series
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ApherosyLove
08/17/21 12:13:15 AM
#49:


Or just buy it.

I bought it.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/79617404

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