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I love the story of Final Fantasy XIV, but it can easily categorize as “One of the most expensive singleplayer games of all time”. On top of buying the expansions, you’ll need to pay for each month you play; and unless someone’s really speedrunning, that will start to add up. Worse, for a first timer setting up their account, their website and payment system is really stuck in 1998, making giving them money an obtuse task. And, while the story has its great moments and excellent side content, a depressing amount of it is extensive polite dialog with just simple quests where you move to a location and right-click on someone. I’ve finished Dawntrail, and am glad I experienced it, but I can’t blame anyone who sees it all as beyond them.

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garretble@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Counterpoint: Someone can play up through Stormblood without having to buy anything.

But, yeah, I agree. I don’t really want to think about how much I’ve spent on this one game over the last 12 years. But roughly spitballing:

ARR, Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker, Dawntrail…I’ll say that’s 6 x $40 (not accurate since I bought special editions for some and moved from PS3 to Pc so that’s an extra cost there, too): $240

$13/m for 11 years (I’ve played ARR since launch but there have been some times where I turned off my sub for a little bit so I’ll just knock off 12 months): 13 x 12 x 11 = $1,716

Various Mogstation purchases, roughly $40?

Total for me with this napkin math: $1,996

Woof. But, I do love the game and spent all weekend playing it just now. So there’s worse things to spend money on.
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- GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  This expac broke me. Played for a decade. Decent ranked tank. The new raids are more of the same and PF has no healers. Tried to play Sage to balance it out and no one could make it work.
  
  The game lost touch with what made it great. It’s no longer innovative. The story is ass. It’s just a whale hunter.
  
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fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
My thing with FFXIV is that, so much has blown by me, that just trying to get into it now is so overwhelming. There was a friend I knew that was into FFXIV and he was one of those people that spoke about it like it is his second language. He had his friends too that were into it and it was like they've built this in-depth chemistry through FFXIV and I even watched some of his livestreams of it.

But anytime I tried playing FFXIV, I really stuck out with this empty feeling because I never had that.

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