Do yall prefer vertical or horizontal progression system?
Ive played a ton of FFXI, FFXIV,, and a little bit of WoW, and for me I much prefer horizontally progressing gear system. I played XI back in like 2005ish and you could get a piece of gear thats level 30 that would be good at end game.
I played XIV for years and while I enjoyed it, I eventually got really tired of how gear system works. A new patch would drop and itd take me forever to get the new gear and by the time I did get it the gear would become obsolete in like a month lol.
I recently got back into playing XI but on a private server and I gotta say its so much more fun and rewarding. Yeah it can take forever to do stuff, but when you do get something done the sense accomplishment is greater because you know the gear is actually useful and will remain useful.
Also only tangentially related but the downtime in the game facilitates a better community. When i played 14 at times it seemed like a single player game. For all of its faults, FFXI absolutely does not seem like a single player game lol
So which do yall prefer? Horizontal or vertical?