Preach Gaming reveals \u201csurprising\u201d early verdict on FFXIV after quitting WoW Preach GamingYouTuber and Twitch streamer Preach Gaming quit World of Warcraft during the wave of subscription cancellations and after giving Final Fantasy XIV a try, he\u2019s finally revealed his verdict. With World of Warcraft\u2019s popularity currently on the decline, many big streamers and content creators for the game have jettisoned the franchise for greener pastures. Twitch star Asmongold, who was the biggest WoW streamer on all of Twitch, also moved over to FFXIV and hasn\u2019t looked back since. Preach has now joined the ranks of ditching WoW, and has begun his journey into Eorzea. He shared his thoughts on the positives and negatives of the game after his first eight hours of play. Preach\u2019s first FFXIV impressions Preach\u2019s feelings on FFXIV, after having only spent a short time with it, are mixed. On questing in FFXIV Preach said, \u201cIt\u2019s so much better than World of Warcraft. This is true, 100%, it\u2019s very easy to see. The main story scenario questing is considerably superior. Your character feels like it\u2019s taking part in something eventful. \u201cYou are, of course, \u2018the champion\u2019, something of a meme in MMO\u2019s done on all sides, but it kind of makes some sense. And the stories are also self-contained in little stories happening in the area. I can say, without doubt, I fully understand what\u2019s going on in the zone I\u2019m in.\u201d Timestamp at 4:25 for mobile viewers. Not everything was perfect in his first impressions, however. Preach had some serious problems with the fetch quests the game still has in place for new players, saying: \u201cThe game is still woefully, woefully, and all MMO\u2019s have this problem, and it really is a problem in my eyes, they are woefully desperate for a new style of quest that isn\u2019t \u2018collect five things.\u2019 \u201cAnd I think they are so aware that this system is antiquated, and every RPG under the sun that\u2019s come out in the last five years have moved well past this of collect five barea***s. FFXIV, certainly in A Realm Reborn, still has that problem.\u201d While he isn\u2019t in love with this old style of questing, there\u2019s still some added polish added to the system. He continued: \u201cThey\u2019ve put a little twist on it (fetch quests), which is the menagerie system. Which is, that you can get the \u2018kill three things\u2019 quest without having to go to an NPC to pick up that quest, and there will be an icon above the mobs to say these are a new type of enemy, they\u2019re part of the menagerie, kill three of them and we\u2019ll progress you up to higher tier monsters, and we\u2019ll auto-complete that quest for you.\u201d Preach leaned in heavy on the game\u2019s combat, saying: \u201cThe gameplay is f**king awful right now, like, absolutely f**king awful\u2026 The story that\u2019s going on is great, the actual gameplay involved in it is really awful, and I cannot wait for that to change at some point.\u201d While the creator is enjoying the more refined aspects that FFXIV, let\u2019s hope the combat picks up the further he progresses into the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Preach Gaming reveals \u201csurprising\u201d early verdict on FFXIV after quitting WoW Preach GamingYouTuber and Twitch streamer Preach Gaming quit World of Warcraft during the wave of subscription cancellations and after giving Final Fantasy XIV a try, he\u2019s finally revealed his verdict. With World of Warcraft\u2019s popularity currently on the decline, many big streamers and content […]<\/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-69999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69999","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=69999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}