Played FFXI for 8 years, and I want to try this game. The only thing I really have to ask is what server to try? I guess I am looking to make a friend or 2 get me started and hope this game isn't too anti social.
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When I tried 14, I was told that a few ZAMers are on... Lamia, was it? I think it was Lamia. I dunno how good that server is these days, might wanna ask Catwho or somebody.
Probably most of the active members of this board are on Lamia. Though the "official" ZAM FC is on Ultros. I don't know how active that still is.
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If random outcomes aren't acceptable to you, then don't play with random people.
It's a lot of fun. It takes the best of WoW (the gameplay) and the best of Final Fantasy (the storyline, cutscenes, graphics, etc) and it's a very very good game. You get thrown into the storyline right away so you have a sense of belonging in the world.
One thing to keep in mind though after coming from XI is this game isn't as community oriented and the game itself actually forces you to solo a fair bit throughout the story. So take for instance if Promyvion c. 2004 was in XIV, instead of doing it with 6-18+ people, the game would say "This duty has to be undertaken solo." So you end up getting used to being "alone" and relying on the Duty Finder for content. So while there's linkshells and guilds called Free Companies, you'll largely spend your gameplay in instances once you begin to unlock dungeons.
So it's not that anti-social, but the setup of the game kind of makes it so...in a sense, your actual server community doesn't matter too much in comparison to XI, but you'll still have chat channels and whatnot. Once you hit end-game depending on server, you'll see a lot of groups forming in Party Finder which is separate from Duty Finder. But you will be spending most of your content career using the Duty Finder, which grabs people from a set of servers for the content and people you most likely will never run into again unless they happen to be from your server.
This game is also strictly vertical progression in the sense joining now, you'll have plenty to do, but the content is fairly outdated so only the newest set of content is what matters most once you hit end-game. So depending on the type of player you are, XIV is really segmented.
If you're extremely casual and don't care about doing a lot of content - Balmung is probably the best bet if you can ever get onto it, next would be Gilgamesh (these are also Roleplaying servers unofficially.) Those are also as of now based on unofficial parsing, the 2 most populated NA servers, every other server has grown extremely quiet post Heavensward and even 3.1 update, but going down the list, Lamia, Sargatanas and Hyperion seems to also have a decent population.
So it's not that anti-social, but the setup of the game kind of makes it so...in a sense, your actual server community doesn't matter too much in comparison to XI, but you'll still have chat channels and whatnot. Once you hit end-game depending on server, you'll see a lot of groups forming in Party Finder which is separate from Duty Finder. But you will be spending most of your content career using the Duty Finder, which grabs people from a set of servers for the content and people you most likely will never run into again unless they happen to be from your server.
This game is also strictly vertical progression in the sense joining now, you'll have plenty to do, but the content is fairly outdated so only the newest set of content is what matters most once you hit end-game. So depending on the type of player you are, XIV is really segmented.
If you're extremely casual and don't care about doing a lot of content - Balmung is probably the best bet if you can ever get onto it, next would be Gilgamesh (these are also Roleplaying servers unofficially.) Those are also as of now based on unofficial parsing, the 2 most populated NA servers, every other server has grown extremely quiet post Heavensward and even 3.1 update, but going down the list, Lamia, Sargatanas and Hyperion seems to also have a decent population.
Lamia server is where me, Valk Ayree, Illsaide, Laverda, and a few other ZAMers all live in a FC with a giant house. We have a dozen other FC members of varying levels of activity, although we lost a big talkative chunk to Fallout 4 last month. They'll come back eventually.
Time zone is a more important concern, though. We're mostly active from 7PM EST to 12AM EST, with some on a little earlier and some on a little later, and improved hours on the weekend.
If those times work for you, then hop on board to Lamia and I'll shoot you an FC invite this evening :)
Time zone is a more important concern, though. We're mostly active from 7PM EST to 12AM EST, with some on a little earlier and some on a little later, and improved hours on the weekend.
If those times work for you, then hop on board to Lamia and I'll shoot you an FC invite this evening :)
Ya I am Eastern time zone I will have to give that a try! Thanks everyone for the replies
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