XIV Free Trial

>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?

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>Am i gonna be ambushed with microtransactions later on?
No but early story is fucking boring and game starts awfully slow

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

are you ready for 70 straight hours of fetch quests and warping back and forth between two aetherytes?

It's a sub based game with a cosmetics cash shop and stuff like level skips/additional retainers for convenience.

> 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.

>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.

so if i love reading books i should be fine then?

no but you'll get bored af when you realize the main storyline locks everything behind it

Now go to limsa and get your dick wet

Shitters will complain if any leveling content is too hard, that's why all challenging content is in optional EX/Savage/Ultimate and stuff like solo PotD or Bozja duels (though those can be cheesed by anyone with enough prep and half a brain).

Tank stance girl is busy polishing my lever, have a bird instead

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It's a single player FF first, and MMO only a distant second. Especially with the TRUST system being expanded.

don`t forget that those 400 hours are EXTREMELY easy and offer no challenge at all so that even a blind turtle can beat it with no problems.

It's being made this way because yoship wants it to be as accessible as any other mainline FF. And one of the hurdles to that is other mainline FFs are single player.

That faggot Jesse Cox may have been right about the RPGMMO thing

UMMMMMM

Just play a Tank or healer until you unlock squads

Keep in mind that the game is a decade old, job rotation/ability overhauls and additions along with simplifications and QoL improvements resulted in a power creep.
Leveling content was a lot harder when it was current during ARR and HW.

>Am i gonna be ambushed with microtransactions later on?
No but you may be ambushed by this guy

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doesn`t make it any better to be h0nest, it`s 400 hours of no fun.

No, but I can post rapegirl.

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For you. Fun is subjective. I find visual novels fun. I also like doing the higher difficulties in endgame, and I can understand not wanting to be blocked by difficulty spikes at a moment when I just want to leisurely enjoy the story.

Ive already unlocked them but their ai is stupid even when you make them engage, i guess they are still better than the average RPer tho.

playing content with zero difficulty is not fun.

Then why are people still wiping to stone vigil

>Final Fantasy 14 characters in the Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer
Think we'll get some crossover content in XIV for the release?

The average player is beaten by the simple concept of "turn on tank stance".
Your standards for difficulty don't conform with the target audience.

Lmfao

There are? What?

stone vigil is like a "serious" difficulty "spike". Like before stone vigil you don't have to do anything to won. Starting with stone vigil tanks have to use mitigation and healers have to pay attention

is that the iron will thing i got?
the attracting enemy buff?

Don't forget to take a break from the MSQ sometimes and do the blue side quests, those usually unlock something fun to do

There's always been FF crossovers in the games. Makes sense the most popular one is making some cameos.
>That scene near the end where Donald and Goofy bully Emet

>hear about free trial
>sign up
>jump through several hoops to get myself set up
>make a character and start playing
>get bored
>fast forward years later
>they raised the level cap for trial
>reinstall
>square x steam bullshit
>cant boot up the game through steam
>but can launch the game directly through the exe, bypassing the square launcher
>play
>get bored
>years later
>friends hype up ff14
>reinstall to play with them
>free players cant form parties
>???
>get bored
i dont get it

I mean in the trailer. Where are the 14 characters

I've been wanting a KH crossover for a very long time

i-it gets better!

Writes like a greentext of someone who hasn't played the game

if you consider only reaching level 30 not having played the game then sure

Remember, don't upgrade your free trial until you think there's nothing left to do that is included with the free trial, because once you upgrade you can't go back and either have to pay for game time or wait for them to give you free time every once in a while.

Your friends didn't know that they can invite you to a party?

>introduced as homicidal maniacs who were willing to kill an underage elf girl
>oh no they dindu nuffin please feel sorry for them
I wish I could kick their asses again

we have a friend who pays a subscription, but they live on the other side of the planet

What's a good way to start engagin more with the social aspects of this game? I played it for a while a year or two ago but ended up dropping it because I wasn't really enjoying it, but I've already put so much time into it that I feel tempted to go back to it just to see it throguh in the hopes that it improves. I played it on the free trial though and not having access to the Party Finder was one of the things that made me drop it, queuing through the Duty Finder had me waiting forever, and for the Coils of Bahamut I just couldn't get matched with anybody, and I often wasn't thrilled with who I matched with when it finally happened. I basically played the game like it was singleplayer in the end though, and I was thinking that may be part of why I didn't enoy it,so if I go back to it I'd like to change that.

Yes, congrats you're already better than like 90% of other players since you're actually paying attention to your skill effects.

join an FC or a trust (admittedly I know nothing about trusts) maybe go to some of the estate clubs people advertise in limsa

It doesn't change
If you want the social aspects of the game join a RP Free Company that either hosts social events, or ones that use the game as a visual for their own RP game and setting.
Or you know sex is an option. Go put in a resume for the lucky 7's and go from there. Work your way up the ladder and post the retardation you run into on here.

>It's pretty fun so far i'd say. Am i gonna be ambushed with microtransactions later on?
Nope. The store is 90% cosmetics, and the rest you wont even consider unless you want play past SB.

>or a trust
I'm guessing you meant fellowship, trusts is the NPC party member system for dungeons starting with endwalker. I never joined a fellowship but from what i can tell they're kinda like in-game bulletin boards.

>595155067
actually never mind my advice. upon further reading its obvious this was a baiting troll post

I don't care about RPing, when I say I want to engage with the more social aspects it's just so I can have some people there that will make it so I don't have to sit and wait for an hour just to try an extreme trial.

If you can read and understand the words you are reading you will be fine

Time to bite the trust pill user or play on JP

Squad leveling is literally the Fishing of combat classes. You run up to a mob, hit them once, then throw something on Netflix.