There are four things that make me not love FF14 (6 month old crosspost from /JRPG because they told me to)

Hey--thank you and I appreciate a civil reply. I did expect some backlash, but not to the level I've experienced. I expected at least some "huh I disagree, here's my take" but mostly it's been "you are Satan Incaranate, Please Die In A Fire"

Drg & dnc are rather different tho. I’ll chalk this up to u not playing at endgame yet.

I wondered about this too. I took DRG to 50 before I just wasn't having fun. Which bothered me a LOT, because that's my favorite FF class, and was my main in FF11. So I switched to DNC (another favorite historical class) and yes it felt different...! But still I was bored. Because a DNC is a debuffer, and you know, FF14 doesn't have support classes (DNC should have been a healer or a tank, that's another topic I could go on for hours about). Anyway, I was sincerely worried, and still am, that despite class differences many of them play the same.

As for music, reason it’s synth & not live should be obvious. Remember this is a mass market product aimed at the lowest common denominator. Ppl ain’t gonna be able to hear the difference between the two so why spend money on live instrumentation lol.

This is fair. But it isn't so obvious to a game music fanatic like myself. Square HAS put HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS into live-recorded remake soundtracks of other individual games, many that are less than a quarter of the profit of FF14. So I figure, OK, Shadowbringers (this was back in 20xx whatever) will have a fully live OST because of its unprecedented success... ... nope. Not even close. I can't fathom it, and desperately would love someone with knowledge to explain that. (I'll never get that explanation.)

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