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convince your friends to switch to a more dank game

>>6649
seconding this.

choice for a sub if you just want one character for 13 bucks a month which is all ya need.

been very good on updates compared to anything out there. gw2 literally hasn't updated for shit in two years most of those updates you can't play becaused they basically were removed. wow adding next to nothing and pushing back shit that was said to be at launch to later update and rather spend time putting in selfie feature and twitter.


>>6655
you really don't need much ff exposure its final Fantasy themed in recurring characters like cid and such but its own story which you will have to play through to unlock content which aint bad but it does get kinda of slow for ques as a dps for those first time dungeons to move forward in the story.
if you can make it to the 50 story which was with the game at launch then you'll probably stick around the game forever cause each update has added far better story then before as well as the side story Hildebrand

>>6602
I heard the same things sadly. I also just learned that there are a lot of people agreeing with eachother that Stormtalons Lair ( http://www.jabbithole.com/zones/stormtalons-lair-19 ) has more tactics to it than WoW's LFR.
This worries me greatly, for when I'm spending 12 Euro's a month I sort of want to get my money's worth of fun and challenge out of it. Facerolling is neither fun nor challenging.

>>6649
I'll look into that, but Final Fantasy and I are not really on that good terms since Final Fantasy XI

>>6650
Hah, I wish I had the powers to convince those people.
Stockholm Syndrome.
PDD-NOS.
And I am pretty sure that is just the tip of the iceberg.
If I'd be able to convince them to leave WoW I'd have so much charisma ( power to convince others ) that I could convince Ken Ham to join Scientology.

>>6663
I did the open beta of Tera a few years back, I was not overall impressed by the different classes or their mechanics, and the pedo-fairies *cringe*.
If I am going to dive into a new MMO I'd prefer to do it with someone else who is also new, so you can be "dumb" together.

>>6664
43 people in Thayd at 02:00, most of which are idling ( Thayd is the Exiles capital city ). I have no idea whether those are Jabbit only people or Megaserver people, if the latter, yes the game is really dead… or they might all be hiding at player housing.

>>6688
Oh, but I want to raid. Shout profanity at eachother over VOIP when you fail, and shout even more profanity at eachother when you succeed.


After a night worth of rest and sleep I think I've came to a shocking conclusion.
If I have not come across a MMO offer or alternative idea that fancies me by the end of the month I'm going to spend time in a gym.
Instead of grinding levels and alts i'll be grinding the MMO-fat away.

There are probably less worthy causes in the world.

>>6576

I can confirm this firsthand. I played WoW a lot back in the day, 30 hours/week going up to 50 during university holidays in BC and Wrath. I got WoD out of curiosity and nostalgia, and it's exactly as you say at max level: a skinner box where you send your followers to do dailies - you don't even do dailies, you manipulate NPCs via menus. The levelling experience is good, in fairness, but it's too short - you easily get ludicrously overpowered for any given zone and miss the story/atmosphere which is great for as long as you have a reason to be out amongst it (a week, tops). It's a sad indictment of the gaming industry that I think subbing just to experience the levelling is still more worth it than most AAA releases.

>>6649
It's the only good MODERN subscription based MMO on the market.

I was subbed to XIV for the better part of last year and eventually got tired of the incredibly samey patches and gear treadmill, got the bright idea to spend a month dicking around in FFXI again and I'm surprised to find just how much I'm enjoying it. Actual content, interesting jobs, free-form combat, in-depth zones with tons of secrets, I had forgotten MMOs could actually do all these things after GW2, XIV and Wildstar.

That said I really can't recommend people get into XI fresh unless they're cool with a more old-school experience and aren't against busting out a wiki for every other quest, but even today it's twice the game XIV is.