Asmongold praises FFXIV for \u201cinnovating\u201d on WoW\u2019s iconic model square enix\/Asmongold\/BlizzardThere aren\u2019t many games bigger than World of Warcraft when it comes to MMOs, but Asmongold thinks Final Fantasy XIV picks up where the classic Blizzard MMO left off when it comes to innovation. WoW and other Blizzard games haven\u2019t exactly had the greatest year in 2021. While the MMO is still one of the biggest in the genre, games like FFXIV have only gotten more popular as streamers like Asmongold and others leave Azeroth for Hydaelyn. While Warcraft has its issues right now, Asmon pointed out it was innovative in the past compared to other MMOs before it. However, now it seems like Final Fantasy is doing the same thing to WoW. \u201cFinal Fantasy basically did what WoW did to EverQuest. What WoW did to EverQuest was take all the annoying time wasting mechanisms and got rid of them,\u201d he said during a Sept 21 stream. \u201cAnd then Final Fantasy took all the annoying, time wasting mechanisms in wow and got rid of those.\u201d EverQuest, which is still around and operating, first launched in 1999 \u2013 and, as Asmon said, was a precursor for many to World of Warcraft. Blizzard\u2019s MMO definitely dethroned it back in the day, but could it be WoW\u2019s turn to be usurped? \u201cThey\u2019re fixing the problems with Shadowlands, but there\u2019s no innovation,\u201d he continued. \u201cTaking the most popular post on a forum thread and just applying it to the video game, that\u2019s just simply not innovation. There\u2019s no growth in the game.\u201d But just because there\u2019s \u201cno growth\u201d going on in WoW, doesn\u2019t mean Asmon necessarily thinks FFXIV will be the end all, be all MMO anytime soon. Not that it doesn\u2019t have potential, but that it could be making the same \u201cmistakes\u201d as Warcraft did before. Final Fantasy XIV only seems to be getting more and more popular with burned-out fans of the Blizzard franchise, and if the streamer\u2019s right, WoW devs will need to start thinking proactively instead of reactively to really change things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold praises FFXIV for \u201cinnovating\u201d on WoW\u2019s iconic model square enix\/Asmongold\/BlizzardThere aren\u2019t many games bigger than World of Warcraft when it comes to MMOs, but Asmongold thinks Final Fantasy XIV picks up where the classic Blizzard MMO left off when it comes to innovation. WoW and other Blizzard games haven\u2019t exactly had the greatest year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}