>Know absolutely nothing about Final Fantasy
>Recommended the mmo since it has aus/nz servers now
>Choose Gladiator and been playing for a couple of hours on the free trial
It's pretty fun so far i'd say. Am i gonna be ambushed with microtransactions later on?
XIV Free Trial
Robert Cook
Josiah Young
>Am i gonna be ambushed with microtransactions later on?
No but early story is fucking boring and game starts awfully slow
Grayson Richardson
no microtransactions but it might get annoying when you realize you can't use the market board and can only carry up to 300k gil. its nbd though since you can get a real nice chunk of hours out of the trial if you level everything and do all the side stuff before deciding if you wanna pay a sub
William Walker
are you ready for 70 straight hours of fetch quests and warping back and forth between two aetherytes?
Joseph Howard
It's a sub based game with a cosmetics cash shop and stuff like level skips/additional retainers for convenience.
Benjamin Stewart
> game starts awfully slow
Making people think the way the story is being told will change in a dramatic way starting with heavensward or wheneever is misleading in my opinion. Yes it will get a lot more interesting but if you hate running from npcs to npc and reading dialogue you're gonna have a bad time till the very end.
Adrian Adams
>zero character customization
>your gladiator plays like every other tank
>every dps is just dps, they have no unique resources (aside from dancer)
>every healer is like every other healer
>there is no overworld content
>gear is just stats upgrades, there`s no interesting effects or anything like that
>crafting is only useful for top tier +3 ilvl upgrades so that trannys won`t complain about your gear
>aside from that, crafting is useless
>99;9% of the players play the game sitting in the capital spamming dungeon/raid queues
game is as soulless as can be, but at least it`s balanced lmao.
Owen Nguyen
so if i love reading books i should be fine then?
Cooper Ward
no but you'll get bored af when you realize the main storyline locks everything behind it
John Robinson
Now go to limsa and get your dick wet