r/FinalFantasy Dec 08 '24

Was my entire childhood a lie? FF XIV

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u/Character-Arm-1761 Dec 08 '24

On a real note how is XIV? I haven’t played it and haven’t touched an MMO in years. Don’t know if I’d be interested in another mmo again (except DQ X). I always hear how great XIV is. Guess since it’s been out a while I look at it as this daunting task now.

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u/shadowwingnut Dec 08 '24

The story is varying degrees from good to absolutely fantastic through the Endwalker expansion. If you don't want to deal with other people you mostly don't have to outside of one 24 man raid series and 8 man trials. And the base game and first two expansions are free. I personally hated the most recent expansion Dawntrail but it doesn't change that my experience through Endwalker was fantastic.

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u/Character-Arm-1761 Dec 08 '24

How long do you think playing thru the story would take? Games like mmos or open world games I always tend to drop bc I get burnt out from trying to do everything

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u/PickledClams Dec 08 '24

MSQ is 300-400 hours of mostly single player fetch quests with mounds of exposition filler writing.

It's got about 10 hours of pure joy in there sprinkled somewhere around the 100, and 200 hour marks. Lol

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u/Daxxex Dec 08 '24

XIVdiscussion user, disregard this opinion as anyone that frequently posts there hates the game but continues to play it for some reason.

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u/PickledClams Dec 08 '24

Yoshi-PR told me to unsub when I had nothing to do, so I did. :)

Just trying to do my part, and not lie to new players about what XIV is and isn't like most tend to do. Feel free to ask and I'll give an unbiased opinion that isn't driven by cultish love.