I’m not much of an mmo guy, but I wanted to give it a shot. I started WoW classic 2 days ago and I just couldn’t get into it. Obnixious ingame chat, eyesore graphics and it felt to me as if the game was intentionally gatekeeping.

My friend streamed his 4 character today to show and tell me about the game. Needless to say I downloaded it today, got my lancer to level 19 and I’m hooked.

Think I saw that she’s from ff14. Sorry if I got that wrong.

I have a feeling that since it's an MMO and many people here somehow don't consider it mainline or even FF, it's rarely talked about here. But it's just as much a major mainline release as FFXVI and Rebirth. Early Access has been fun since friday. Give the game a try people.

I played the game years ago but never got really far. Not a big fan of MMORPG's seeing I can't put in the time needed to really dig into them.

I heard however that the story is one of the best FF stories to date and that the game can be enjoyed solo. Is that correct? If the game can be played solo I can go through it at my own pace and that would be ideal for me (time wise).

Do I need to play through the basegame first before I do the expansions? How would story progression actually work? I make a new character and just start doing quests and dungeons to lvl and to continue the story?

Thanks in advance!

I’m a long time fan of Final Fantasy, there was certainly a rough patch of FF games that came out that I felt underwhelmed by. For a while I took a break from it all (2 years). I’m not a MMO person but getting into XIV’s world recently through friends, experiencing the story and it’s characters really put some faith back in me for XVI. I used to think the online games didn’t really count but this game is more worthy of it than anything of recent memory. Did FFXIV do anything special for you guys?

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