FINAL FANTASY XIV Online

Ok. Setting this up with its plethora of error codes was a giant pain in the ass and YA CANT GET A REFUND so after buckling down and reading different forums i finally found a way that worked. Btw wtf man, literally no game has ever given me this issue.
Also really wish i could change how my character stands and runs, i understand its June but like...pretty fufu
The game itself is pretty fun though, I'm new to this so everything is all sunshine and lollipops (except for the fact that sprint is an ability with a cool down...fucking dumb) but I am absolutely not shelling out a monthly service fee every month to play this. Be lucky if you guys see me play this for a month or two at any given time. Once Human is dope af and its FREE. So I'll enjoy this game for a little and move onto bigger and better things but if theres a mmo hole in your heart this should fill it for at least a month or two.

The main game, realm reborn story, is pretty boring tbh. Once you get into the expansions though, its gets really good. And i could wait to get through the story.

My game time speaks for itself. Slow start that can be hard to get past but extremely rewarding if you do.

I really enjoy the community and have a great time with the multiplayer content. The story was surprisingly good as well. the combat is quite fun and the job system helps to have varied experiences.

Beautiful game-play and excellent mechanics. Also, there is an expansive world and a great story-line.

the ability to quickly switch jobs. the amazing what they've don the resource gathering ... all i can say is this is as close to perfect I've played on an mmorpg in a long time... plus their controller support is easy and seamless. 99% of the time. sometimes i find it easier to use a mouse but never anywhere important

Great game fell in love with it. very fun first game I've actually enjoyed since switching to pc from console.

Borderline addicted (scared to find out how many hours I've spent on this game based on the SE launcher). Too bad lots of players treat the game as Tinder :/

Dawntrail is dogshit. The fact it has a 'positive following' is proof that universal abortion is correct.

Made for the most toxic cultists you will ever meet in your life. For people who would lie to your face and blame shift as they're abusing you.
It's not an MMO it's a mistake

awful support it makes no sense and isnt helpful in the slightest. cant even log in to the fucking game. fuck this

I'm not the best at writing reviews, but hopefully this can help someone who's thinking about checking out FFXIV.

This MMORPG has become such an important part of my life, and that's really not an understatement.
I started playing Final Fantasy XIV a few years ago on playstation (have a bit over 2k hours there as well) and met so many amazing people during that time, made some seriously cool friends and created some amazing memories working together in this game.
This is the MMO for the player who enjoys story, as its writing is seriously top tier, and continues to grow in quality over time the more you play of it. Unlike most other live service games, there's this huge focus on the main scenario quest, and you experience the story much like you would in a similar, high quality JRPG, but with the chance to play with other people when it comes to partying up or running a dungeon or boss trial.

A Realm Reborn (the base game, minus expansions) gets a lot of flak for being overly long, but I found myself looking back at it as some of the best times, as the world building and beginning to this grand adventure that becomes something else entirely gripped me immediately as I finished creating my character. Mileage may vary though, as common consensus is the base game is the longest, toughest part to get through before it "gets good"

If you've never played this before, would highly recommend dipping into the free trial, as it offers an incredible amount of content completely for free, plenty to determine for yourself if this is the kind of experience you click with.

If you can get into the general gameplay loop of how the trial plays, and want more out of it, I can absolutely recommend grabbing the latest expansion. There's so much content in this game, if you wanted to, you could play no other game than this one for years and be entertained. Just the main story alone from what started in A Realm Reborn running all the way to the end of Endwalker expansion, it's permanently a part of me now, and I want to share that with anyone who will listen.

TL:DR- I'm a massive fan, this game changed my life, try it, and buy it if you like what you see

I've played way more than what my steam account says. I've been playing since closed beta; just only recently got a good PC deserving of this game. That being said, I've seen this game evolve in may ways, both negative and positive. As it stands right now, the game is all positive. There are no complaints from me about the inner workings of it. Everything that it turned into is a complete package and worth every hour I have played.

During the pandemic, this game was my oasis. Made amazing friends that I'll cherish forever. Stopped playing as I got a job and had significantly less time to play and also because I wanted to play more games from my backlog, after 3 years totally focused on FFXIV. But I don't regret a single minute nor a single penny spend here. Maybe I'll play again someday ♥

can't access game, can access login online off browser, but no support or help, and we all know Steam support is an absolute joke. in next few days I dont get into game, Everything from Enix will be wiped, I'm so done with shitty programs and shit poor support

up to level 20ish is grind mode, so worth it thouugh, later game is fantastic and the playerbase is SO nice and friendly. worth.

If you would have asked me years ago if I would recommend FFXIV to somebody I would have said yes, but that is not the case today. Over the past few years there has been a dumbing down and rebalancing of the classes. Yes this happens in every MMO but in FFXIV they took it to an extreme in my opinion. while some people applauded the oversimplification of the game It makes it less and less satisfying to play. Healers are not necessarily needed in all content and even in content where they are needed the hardest thing to do is stay awake.

The story line has been very entertaining until DawnTrail. I have laughed & cried and once I got to dawntrail I've mostly slept. There are some highlights here & there but they are overshadowed by poor story writing with no character development & the plot feels full of holes with missed opportunities. The only reason to stay around after the main story quests is the people who are generally friendly and kind.

Crafting- well its crafting they have a very detailed system that many people love. Storage- Nobody loves the storage options in this game, you don't get a bank you get retainers & each one can hold 175 items (no bags/backpack/storage boxes) just 175 unique items. IT fills up fast since most furniture does not stack and there are many other items that you will get and hardly use but will end up saving anyways. you can purchase more storage for real cash.

Dev Team- Hey these guys work their butts off & to my knowledge they have not expanded the dev team since the beginning. How some of them have not had heart attacks I have no idea. I think they are understaffed and its showing.

Which leads me to boss fights all of them dungeons, raids, extremes and savages. While the mechanics are different they ALL follow the same pattern from ARR to Dawntral. Don't look for in depth strategy's there aren't any. The fights are pretty much all mechanics, dodging & moving and keeping dps uptime with your rotation. They are all about just moving to the right spot at the right time.

Loot- Armor loot is mainly divided up into crafting/dungeon drops/dungeon token/EX and savage tokens. Crafted gear lags behind dungeon token which is behind savage token. for the most part. None of it is truly exciting or unique except maybe in looks. So if you enjoy glamour have at it. they are all just a small incremental upgrade from the previous versions with a few exceptions. All end game characters pretty much wear the exact same things. Other loot is mostly minions and mounts and glamour.

Housing- IM not going to go into here but it still sucks and they will probably never change it.

Been playing for a while, Square is slow with content, but still fun to play.

517 hours and multiple level 90+ classes and I've only made it to Stormblood. Why? Because yellow quests are extremely attractive and are totally worth ignoring the msq for. I promise, totally not coping. Definitely still sane. 10/10 would play again

I love Final Fantasy and I love MMORPGs.

I do not love FFXIV.

I've tried on several different occasions to get back into the game from scratch and every time, I hit the same quest slog that comes after finishing A Realm Reborn's main story questline and every time, I immediately stop having fun. Even after being told that Square Enix had "trimmed the fat" on those quests to make them less tedious, it didn't seem applicable to ARR.

I'm not recommending this not because it's a bad game - the gameplay loop is a rewarding MMORPG gameplay loop, the different class mechanics really offer strong class identity, the community is one of the more interesting communities I've seen in a MMO, and (from what I've heard) the story is great (I personally didn''t care or pay attention to ARR's story at all as I was purely gameplay focused).

I'm not recommending this game because if you're starting from scratch, you *will* hit that wall and you *will* feel how tedious and painfully annoying it is to get through (if you can even get through it at all). Ones ability to progress farther in an *open-world multiplayer game* should not be locked entirely behind your ability to progress through one questline in particular (not to mention a questline where there are quests not related to the MSQ you have to complete to progress the MSQ further).

If you're someone who gets more satisfaction from building your skills with a class in RPGs than things like story, side-content, achievement hunting, or collectibles, you'll probably want to avoid this game.

attempted to change my password twice, had it written down, double triple checked, refused to accept either new password and locked me out of my account. what great fucking service for a game i paid fucking money for

i brought the standard edition of this game back in 2022, i decided to reinstall it on my new PC and guess what even though i can log into the menu im met with a warning saying i don't have a licensed game even though i do i even have dlc codes and when i input the codes to the mog station both codes it says at the mog station that the codes have already been registered so i don't understand how i cant even get into the main loading screen with the harp music i just want to fully install the game since i know it will take days and cant even do that.

Hello Everyone,
unfortunately my personal experience was absolutely terrible with this purchase.

It is a SCAM in my personal opinion and here is a reason.

I have played FF14 beforr and had an square enix account. In that account you have a option for several service accounts. So I added this new service account that I bought here on steam to my main account, so far so good. Then when I try to login with this new service account where I have received game time the launcher seems to default to my first service account and keeps telling me that I have no active subscription even after I chance the active service account.
In other words even though I have a available play time I can'T play because square enix's service account system is faulty.

Other big issue that I ran into was that when you start the game from Steam the square enix game launcher seems to have an issue with that and just won't launch the game so after some time spent googling for a solution I came by a solution that actually worked and it includes renaming a .dll game file EVERY TIME YOU RESTART THE GAME to start it and then to get the message that you have no active subscription (like mentioned before).

The experience was frustrating and infuriating. At this point I accepted defeat and took the los of 10€ and wrote this warning comment for others who are considering buying this game.

So be warned before buying it on Steam.

This game is absolutely fantastic. Mayhap the best I have ever played. It offers one of the best and longest storylines I have ever experienced and I have yet to finish it. The characters really grow on you and you can see development they go through during the story because the game takes it's time with them. Final Fantasy XIV offers a fantastic singleplayer experience but in addition offers all of the social aspects, side content, mini games, community events and more that you would expect from an MMO.

---{ 05 / 10 }---
I feel like I just couldn't warm up to this game. I love MMORPG's because of the gameplay, but there is soo much story. I can't read through all of that without getting tired. At the beginning, there are just way too many quests which is an extra turnoff.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

Healer is the best class by far. If you want my same experience Go scholar and get a controller. Find ways to customize your controller to your liking, and lean back and enjoy the MMO goodness, I have multiple level 100 characters. The customization and community in this game is amazing :)

Absolutely one of the best RPGMMO's out there with the best community. <3 you guys

Great game, at each expansion it only gets better and better. Everyone should embrace the adventure that this game is and bring friends along.

After so much time put into this game. So many friends made, so many memories formed. They integrated the launcher with fucking microsoft edge, now it no longer works on linux. Thanks guys, my favorite game is now unplayable in the pc I've played it on for almost 10 years! :D

Just quit before dawntrail or "endgame content" as it's incredibly gatekeepy and the same type of things you see in korean mmos, i.e each patch cycle is streamers RMTing gear, then selling runs for RMT and getting into groups is a complete ballache, if you check the lfg all you see is people selling runs of "endgame content" and not much else. Game is fun as an arcade-theme park story but quickly plays out when you want to do any of the content that you spent money on the expansion for:).

i'm not a massive mmorpg fan but ffxiv pulled me in and kept me in. 1,500+ hours later and i am still loving every second of this game. just don't make me heal people.

I tried refunding this after buying it by accident. It wouldnt let me because there were "consumable items" that couldn't be refunded. I hadn't even run the launcher yet, let alone opened the game. It said "unplayed" on the refund screen. There wasn't even an option to contact support directly, just a hard no refund policy, which is bogus and predatory. The game might be fun, it might be worth playing for those looking to buy it; but I'm leaving my dissatisfaction here since I can't leave it with support.

PS: it wont let me post this review until I play 5 minutes of the game. I've had the launcher open downloading the game for 10 minutes, and the steam page says I've played for 10 minutes, but it still won't let me post, so I guess I have to wait for a couple hours to install before i can leave this review :/

Easily the best MMO on the market and it is not close. The original story is amazing. The only thing that is a bit of a drag is the post MSQ side quest in between the release of each expansion but even those are very fun or interesting at times. The community is also hands down the most wholesome and helping and friendly community i have ever been apart of.

Dogshit MMO levelling where you spend 50 hours using 2 abilities. I'd sure hate to get to the engaging part of the game where you have an actual kit before the 1000 hour mark.

Dogshit monetisation. I want to party with a friend so I pick up starter edition. Turns out I've fucked my account because the 'meta' is to use the free trial until level 70, since for some ungodly reason they decided that if you buy the starter edition, you are now permanently on the subscription model.

Also the first time I've run into a product being straight up ineligible to refund. Not that I'm personally ineligible, but that you CANNOT refund starter edition.. ever.

I don't get why i need to pay for a monthly subscription for a game i already spent 30$ on plus i cant even refund it. I get that the game is fun but there shouldn't be a subscription for a game i already spent money on

This game is esperiencing it's BfA/Shadowlands era, come back in like 6 years and re-asses.

God, it's painful to mark this game as negative, but I have to.

I sunk hundreds of hours into this game during Endwalker's main story and patches, having gone from a simple sprout to what some would call a "midcore" player - not good enough for the super high level content like Savage/Ultimate, but not exactly a blind newbie that has to be handheld through the whole thing. A very middle-of-the-road player.

Through the entirety of the game's main ten year arc, it felt like it had some pretty clear direction story-wise, even with some of the blunders in Stormblood and the now apparant attempts to stretch out ARR back when it was the *only* content available to players. Up to Endwalker, there was a TON of content for a player like me - Deep Dungeons, Variant Dungeons, Bozja, Eureka, Alliance Raids, the countless optional questlines which unlocks secret dungeons and trials..

Endwalker, of course, was the peak of the game's story - and where I consider the game's main questline to truly end. A perfect way to wrap up a decade long storyline. The game got a little less content during its patches because the team was working on XVI, sure, but you still got stuff like the Island Sanctuary and some of the Variant Dungeons.

However, early into Endwalker (although it arguably began in Shadowbringers), a pattern began to show; a hard split in content. The game's MSQ, and its associated trials and dungeons, try to introduce raiding mechanics - but do it with an extremely high ceiling. There is no difficulty in the game's encounter design for normal difficulty content, to the point where you can do the whole thing in singleplayer mode with the NPC party the game gives you from Shadowbringers onwards (and they've even ported it to trials and pre-ShB content now!). The only time you have to play with other players is to complete non-trust trial content, but there's no skill in it. Everyone's just there for the tomestones, or just to mark the duty as complete to progress the story. Unless you're literally not paying attention, mechanics are a joke.

I'm not even going to bother mentioning job complexity because it's been nerfed to the ground - after a certain amount of time, it's a near guarantee you're going to install the modded client and likely install some kind of 'combo' mod because the rotations are THAT braindead. Rotations are super fixed and extremely well documented, and save for positionals you can just automate the whole lot. This leaves mechanics as the sole defining factor for difficulty, and as mentioned above? Normal and Hard modes are basically just the story mode.

Meanwhile though, you have the 'high difficulty' content, Extreme and above. Extreme and standard raids are where a 'midcore' player like me would cap off; challenging mechanically, but doable for someone that might not have much time in the day to sit down and learn everything inside-out. Anything above is hyper-targeted to the game's hardcore raiding scene - which makes sense when you realise that Yoshi-P was literally a high level WoW raider prior to FFXIV.

So, where's the problem? Put simply, we're losing the midcore content big time, especially after Dawntrail. While I was writing this review, Cosmic Exploration released; a crafting-oriented plotline that drew upon the community to complete objectives, much like the Ishgard Restoration.. except it was done before I could leave work. The hardcore players blew through all of the community goals, and I'm being told to watch a recap video for the FOMO cutscenes I missed out on. Keep in mind that prior to Dawntrail, this game was heralded for being anti-FOMO.

In many ways, it feels like the game was at its best when Yoshi-P and Co. weren't actually helming it. While they were making XVI, lesser known staff like Ishikawa got the chance to shine and add a new dimension and most importantly, a *new set of eyes* to the game. With Dawntrail, they're back, and it's painfully obvious. And while I won't touch on it much here, the game is painfully at its limits technically at this point. The ARR engine at the point of 7.x feels a ton like how 1.x was cobbled together, albeit without the bad networking.

At this point, I genuinely feel like it might be time for CBU3's leads to pass the torch. Let the new blood add their ideas to the world of Eorzea once more.

Unfortunately I can't recommend FFXIV.

I played the beta and basically didn't touch it until a few weeks ago. I normally play healer in MMOs, so I figured Conjurer was a cool path to take and then spec into White Mage being the natural progression route. I won't complain about the lack of DPS and amount of spells for DPS, but it was a pain to level through the quest system as a conjurer, but heyho it is what it is.

The reason for the negative review is because I kept thinking to myself "when does this get fun?" because the quests just pure suck ass. Fetch this, do this, go here, go back to this other place you've just been, then go over here and it just gets so stale quickly. You unlock more content as you progress: new dungeons, zones, guildhests, etc. but it feels very rinse and repeat.

I think the other side of it is the lack of understanding of what's going on. I know the FF universe is insanely vast, but from a lore perspective all I really took away was there's 3 big military dogs, a group of people who investigate things, a dragon, an antagonist imperial army and that's pretty much about it.

People say this is the best MMO on the market but I simply just don't see it.

After catching up on the main msq and working through the post patches I think I'm allowed to have an opinion now.

The game is still fun and the so-called content droughts are complaints from people who speedrun content the second its released and do nothing else with the game.
The story is fantastic and though it does slow down every now and then I've never once found it boring. People rag on Dawntrail for being boring and having nothing happening and I'm convinced that they've been skipping every cutscene that isn't voiced. The ARR story is incredibly slow and boring but its purpose is worldbuilding and not much more. Once you hit Heavensward the story is much more engaging. Dungeons and raids are a delight and the most fun I've had has been getting slapped around in Leviathan EX for two hours straight with my free company.
Some parts of the game do feel like a chore but that's because they're the chore classes. Crafting is at least a little more engaging if you're not quicksynthing several stacks of one item.

This game has me in a chokehold and it's the only thing I play anymore. Highly reccomend

It's a fun game, if you can freaking log in... tried for hours now, and i read somewhere that support rarely unlocks your account, i have tried creating new passwords, nothing works... Otherwise it's a good game, won't ever be playing it anymore though since i can't LOG TF IN.....

Gave this game a genuine shot and I can't bring myself to keep playing. After hearing people for so long clammer about how amazing the story apparently is I had high hopes going in but I am almost 100 hours in and it is doing nothing for me, especially when a good 90% of that time is spent doing mundane busy work for npcs you will never remember. Fetch quest after fetch quest after fetch quest, with multiple of the main story quests just being "talk to character" then run to the other side of the region "talk to character" only to then trek back to talk to the first character and boom, quest done. I read everywhere that it apparently gets a lot better in 'Heavensward' but I'm sorry, I'm not spending another 60 or so hours on a "maybe" especially when I have so many problems already and the game has given me no indications that it is going to get any better.

Over the past few expansions, FFXIV has focused on widening the potential audience of the game by removing points of interest and circumstances to overcome in the game. The recent expansion has featured a reintroduction of decent battle design but also the deletion of the last class whose mechanics I enjoyed, a number that has been dwindling since the introduction of Shadowbringers. They make these changes without warning and unintelligible reasoning (when they give any). At this point I don't think I can understand their game design philosophy at all and it seems like they only make live letters to make it seem like they're trying to communicate with their player base, but not actually do so. Crafting and gathering has been boring since the Shadowbringers overhaul, and dungeons have only gotten more monotonous as well. Though the head developer has said in an interview before that they have taken too much away, I've yet to see any change in line with that, and have been waiting for a very long time.

really fun game to play with your partner as it's relaxing and so much exciting content to spend quality time together. christine if you see this please let me see the kids.

What I like the most about FFXIV - It's not feeding your fomo. You can quit. You can take a break. You can come back half a year later and keep going from where you left. You are not punished for playing something else. You can always come back. Sometimes you are just not feeling it and that's alright. But your friends will be there. Your FC will be there. I've been playing this game for over 10 years now on and off and it always feels like home.

NEVER GET THIS GAME!!!!

You will lose days and days of your life to this game, you'll forget basic needs and necessities for your children, your wife will nag at you for why you have a hobby you enjoy, eventually leaving you since you're a "manchild who still plays computer games", and you will be so sucked into this hole of despair and darkness that you realize the only thing that was always there for you is the lonely nights at Limsa Lominsa in the critically acclaimed and award winning game Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. THIS GAME WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE!!!!

5/10

FFXIV has sometimes cool moments, but a largely forgettable story. Collosally overrated IMO. The supposedly great Heavensward xpac was just "meh" tier.
The ending sequence of every expansion is cool. Not because the story is amazing. But because the music slaps. The music IS the best part of this game.
The rest is a slog.
It doesn't respect player's time.
In this MMO, you don't grind mobs. Oh hell no. Actually, you barely do any combat in the open world areas.
Instead, you will grind a F*CK TON of fetch quests. Approximately 900 of them, out of a total of 1000 mandatory story quests to unlock various features and dungeons one by one (...unless you buy a skip in Square Enix shop, how convenient of them!).

The story is weak for a Final Fantasy game. You get the usual anime plot points/characters, coated in a "semi-serious" artstyle I didn't like very much.
The presentation, especially character animation in cutscenes (except maybe for climax) is horribly outdated (remember the base game launched on the PS3).

It tries to combine "RPG" and "MMO" genres to make something "special".
In a way, it's true. The worst parts of each genre combine together to make something completely mindnumbing to play 90% of the time.
I am way better served by any other, single player, FF game, in terms of storytelling, party member dynamics AND involvement of the player in the game mechanics.

Closing statement:
To the FF14 fanbois out there genuinely thinking this is the greatest story ever told in a video game: please ** f*ck ******** and ** *** ****** ********.

The second quickest way to become racist, trans, or both, beaten only by VRChat. No headset required!

Skip cutscenes until it tells you "hey, this cutscene is gonna take a while, you sure?" and then it goes from a 6 to a 10 for the rest of the game.

cant play cuz i dont remember my og security questions. tried customer support with no luck. literally bricked game in my library because of cd key issues and questions i put for security so long ago. if youre returning after years hiatus and didnt write your stuff dowm dont even bother. ive spent mkre hours trying to log in than ive played at this point

As an old WoW player who also played FFXIV since 2010-ish on PS3, this game has lost its allure. Don't understand the community anymore, devs and writers just writing slop, Yoshi-P seemingly losing his passion? or maybe just tired of being the director? This game used to be a gem, different flavor of MMO now its just generic slop. Pretty much just a game like Tarisland, feels like they decided the influx of WoW refugees need to be catered to and then they just folded to the demands. Game just feels bad especially with classes, each class had a fantasy that it catered to and now its all classes playing very similarly with little to no identity. It just hurts having old memories of playing with friends and then it slowly dying out of old FFXIV players and modern audience getting catered to instead. Don't even get me started on all the addons/mods people get on this game its wild, everyone needs their handheld for every little thing. QoL sure that's fine but things that make this into WoW because you miss dps meters and parsing? Give me a break this game was story driven, its not about difficulty, you don't even need addons for these fights but people being so brainrotted they need them to even not stand in the big RED circle... As of right now I cannot in good conscience recommend this game. If you really want to scratch an itch and waste your money go ahead, but honestly just play the demo/free edition you will milk the good content out of the game FOR FREE rather than wasting money on the game and paying a monthly subscription for a subpar MMO.