#Ffxiv new expansion 2020 ps3#
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#Ffxiv new expansion 2020 ps3#

I tried to get into FFXIV since it first launched on PS3 вЂ“ tried and failed, having opened accounts on all 3 platforms, even going so far as to buy the game last year to no avail вЂ“ I just coudnвЂ™t get into it. If it wasnвЂ™t vast, and open, then it wasnвЂ™t a true MMO. The impact of feeling like IвЂ™m genuinely in an open-world was significantвЂ¦it quickly became a (subconscious) prerequisite to what IвЂ™d consider an acceptable MMO. I completely understand вЂ“ and old mel Guild Wars вЂ“ вЂmyвЂ™ MMO of choice back in 2005, used to keep the players contained, albeit far more restricted than in FFXIV, so when I started playing Warcraft, the sense of freedom challenged my view of Guild Wars. CanвЂ™t tell IвЂ™m not having fun, and yet the crude environment visuals and absense of exploration just donвЂ™t let me call the world of Eorzea вЂњhomeвЂќ. IвЂ™ve joined the вЂњnavyвЂќ вЂ“ one of the three friendly вЂњnationsвЂќ, the seafaring Limsa Lominsa, my Lancer class upgraded to Dragoon, IвЂ™ve learned to transmog, a ground mount, got level 33, and moving along with the story which throws its fun and great dungeons to me at short intervals. Exploration is absent, and that feeling of a hamster in a wheel вЂ“ and wheel in a cage вЂ“ is not comforting. In FFXIV I feel like IвЂ™m always indoors and walking through corridors, designed to bind points of interest, period. Imagine you could only ride the roads between settlements in Ardenweald, as they would put the impassable big trees in every terrain spot that does not contain quest mobs? I donвЂ™t think so.

#Ffxiv new expansion 2020 free#

Also, once you entered a WoW zone, youвЂ™re free to see the sights and walk around, not just traverse from quest hub 1 to quest hub 2. And many zones are also seemless вЂ“ for example, you can walk between Westfall, Elwynn and Duskwood at will вЂ“ you could cross the rivers at literally every point at where youвЂ™ve arrived to the bank. But at the same time you can traverse in any direction by flying mount вЂ“ fuck the gyro bridge to Netherstorm, I can fly in from Hellfire Peninsula if I want to. Of course, many WoW zones also have their chokepoints вЂ“ for example, Tanaris has only 3 exits by foot (Thousand Needles, Uldum and UnвЂ™goro), and most zones do too. Paired with the loading screens between all zones, so you can enter another zone only through a couple of corridors, itвЂ™s a no-no. I would compare this to rooms connected by corridors among the impassable mountains, trees, ravines, and that ruins immersment a lot вЂ“ you just donвЂ™t see the world in whole. So, technically itвЂ™s not a circle (or a square) of landmass to roam free as we do in WoW. I see the very same scheme as in Blade & Soul: yes, youвЂ™re kinda free to go everywhere you want вЂ“ as long as your level allows it not to get killed by high level mobs. The thing bugging me most in FFXIV is probably вЂњthe worldвЂќ itself.