
I've played a lot of MMOs over the years, but I only play the ones I have the best hopes for the future in. Â For a long time that was WoW (and I was justified, for even if you didn't like some of the expansions I'd say that WoW was simply the best MMORPG straight up through Pandaria) but before that it was FFXI, EQ, etc. Â I moved to EVE for a while, but got bored of its PVP (I still can't believe that EVE is so centered on the one game aspect it doesn't actually do very well, it's a great game but probably one of the worst PVP games I can think of).
I then heard FFXIV had gotten better since 1.0 and gave it a shot. Â Loved it, and was ready to start that when I got an invitation to the Wildstar beta. Â I was a huge proponent of that game. Â I was active on the forums and was really pushing for its success. Â I played that game for about a year and, more than played it, I ran one of its largest guilds, was a recognized member on the forum, and helped to run player events.
Then, we got the news Wildstar was going F2P. Â Since I haven't ever seen F2P improve a game (all I can say is that it sometimes gives rushed games chances to improve, but I thought Wildstar was in a great place as a game when they announced it), suddenly FFXIV became the game with the brightest future. Â The Heavensward expansion sealed the deal, and Square's response to calls to go F2P (tell those people to shove off and just make their game better) was icing on the cake.
As far as I'm concerned, FFXIV has the best chance to be the best game for the longest span of time, so FFXIV is my home now.
I then heard FFXIV had gotten better since 1.0 and gave it a shot. Â Loved it, and was ready to start that when I got an invitation to the Wildstar beta. Â I was a huge proponent of that game. Â I was active on the forums and was really pushing for its success. Â I played that game for about a year and, more than played it, I ran one of its largest guilds, was a recognized member on the forum, and helped to run player events.
Then, we got the news Wildstar was going F2P. Â Since I haven't ever seen F2P improve a game (all I can say is that it sometimes gives rushed games chances to improve, but I thought Wildstar was in a great place as a game when they announced it), suddenly FFXIV became the game with the brightest future. Â The Heavensward expansion sealed the deal, and Square's response to calls to go F2P (tell those people to shove off and just make their game better) was icing on the cake.
As far as I'm concerned, FFXIV has the best chance to be the best game for the longest span of time, so FFXIV is my home now.