I can’t imagine still wanting to utilize the product/service of a company that laid me off, especially a company that was laying off out of sociopathic shareholder appeasement and not actual struggles.
It isn’t an essential utility. There are better MMOs.
Are there? I haven’t played WoW in close to a decade, but have yet to find anything that scratches the same itch.
I think FF14 is up there with WoW. I particularly like that you don’t need an alt to play different classes
I played both quite a bit. Went back to FF14 and it’s still very good.
Community is still awesome, but I can feel it when someone comes over fresh from WoW in early PuGs.
Just facerolling everything and not giving the healer/caster a chance to catch up or even be in the room when he pulls aggro on literally everything in sight.
I call him out and tell him to slow down. He doesn’t. Tells me off. Then dies from over pulling… and yes he confirmed he came from WoW. Some people are hardheaded.
That said I could count the knuckleheads I’ve had to deal with on one hand.
Being able to do pretty much everything with one character is amazing. No pay to win. (Cosmetics micros). Flat monthly fee was refreshing after dealing with all the free to start games/pay to win games.
OHH! And raiding has a pity system you can just buy your gear after enough runs.
It’s considered standard to pull wall-to-wall in dungeons, though. There’s an exception for earlier dungeons when your kit is nerfed and most people don’t have AoE, but if you aren’t doing it by level 50 content, people are going to get impatient.
But I think the key is that it doesn’t matter if you wipe or not, unlike WoW. People are a lot more forgiving in FFXIV. I’ve been playing it for close to 3 years, and played WoW from classic to WotLK, however long that is. I 100% enjoy FFXIV’s story and the community more.
Ditto to both
I played ff14 at launch and into ARR a bit. Played wow from around BC launch to WotLK ish as well.
Just saying every game has its hard-headed players, but agreed the community of FF14 is just amazing.
That one aggro guy was a speck on my windshield of an amazingly long and scenic road trip.
Yeah the raid token is really great, especially for people that don’t have stable raid party like me. Can just do raid and expect I will always get a new gear after few runs. Not just waiting for RNG mercy
I stopped playing WoW literally because as a tank, people get shitty about it if you don’t pull CONTINUOUSLY. Like give a guy a break to breathe or pee.
Meanwhile you have casters and healers raiding with just one freaking hand on a rotation. Multitasking like crazy. Eating, reading a book, watching TV and … other one handed things.
New world did for me when i had my latest mmo itch that need scratchin’. But I haven’t been back in a year or so and it felt like it was dying when I left. I hope it hasn’t but it’s made by Amazon and they are about as bad as blizzard on treating their workers well.
Maybe, maybe not but he got his pound of flesh from his uncaring company before he was laid off and he’s got something to do between jobs that he doesn’t have to pay for.
Good on him, but would you really want to play WoW after receiving that treatment from the company?
Could sell the account for a good amount.
Could have but probably not after he tweeted about it and it’s been on every gaming site.
~1.5k+tax in savings if he was going to be subscribing anyway.
It counts as income this year rather than spread out over the decade
Is it really saving anything tax wise?
Yes.
You’re really just saving on the cost, not the tax
Unless the office is in Texas where they have no income tax but really high sales tax
I think you misunderstood what the person was saying. They were saying that they saved $1500 plus whatever sales tax would be, not that they saved on income tax.
I was saying including tax wasn’t necessary because they would have paid more in tax this way
