Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Asmongold asks WoW Roleplayers Why They Don't Just Play FFXIV" video.
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Kimi Timoskainen Problem is, that the races in FF14 are super bland.
For absolute no reason at all they give you three starting regions, what in the end does not have any meaning and none of them has anything to do with your race.
Elezen are just tall humans with long necks and pointy ears.
Lalafell are just ugly and evil baby humans (and even walk like one).
Miquote are 100% anime catgirl fetish.
Viera are 100% playboy bunny race (and just badly stolen from FF12, where they had at least an interesting background that fit into the world and added important depth beyond their playboybunny appearance)
Au Ra are either cute humans with a scaly tale and some ornaments when female or tall emo lord when male.
Roe are big, stumpy humans.
Hrothgar are the only different, but the design isn't well done and only half a race for no reason, even though the developers promised to never do that shit again. Like Viera they still can't wear hats after years (while some modders easily did that).
Like the game in general, the background of these races are all very superficial and in general the whole story of FF14 doesn't work at all with MORPG, because you play the super duper special extra Mary Sueish chosen one. That's the story. For someone who is actually into RP, FF14 is one of the worst games, because you have to ignore the story and what your character is forced to be in it, since it simply does not work.
In WoW, you can easily be part of the story and still just see yourself as a random part of the army - even a civil one. Sure, as far as I see you got some stuff like creating that specail weapon which is later important against the main villain or when you are a commander, but in comparison to "you are the sole being able to stop the destruction of the planet and universe, by punching stupid things to death" (and yes, that's literally it I don't exaggerate it) that's pretty small.
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@Roric_The_Red Yeah... It's always ridiculous when peopole praise the story and lore of FF14. What lore? There is zero to nothing and most of the story is badly copy/pasted from other FF games without even carting to integrate it well.
The whole Garlean Empire thing for example including Cid is just 99% copy/paste from FF12. Problem is, while FF12 makes a good message out of it, that war isn't heroic and just means suffering, especially for the weak, FF14 celebrates war and in the most disgusting, manipulative way. Instead of a story with depth, you get "yeah, you punch everything to death, because you are the chosen one, Harry".
And the giant Empire, the size of a continent, just does shit all these years and falls apart, ruined by a stupid cartoon villains (they kill it, not even you, off screen) and a guy who gives a fuck about everything beside wanting to fight you, then never actually pushing to fight you...
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