The Twitter accounts of the MMORPG giants World of Warcraft (WoW) and Final Fantasy XIV are having an amusing exchange on Twitter.
The streamer S1N3N may not be among the biggest streamers, but his innocent question has now caught the attention of the two giants in the MMORPG field.
Final Fantasy XIV or World of Warcraft – Who is the prettiest in the land?
S1N3N asked on Twitter: “Should I play Final Fantasy XIV or World of Warcraft?”
The official Twitter account of WoW replied: Warcraft! We let you shoot laser beams from your eyes!
@S1N3N @FF_XIV_EN Warcraft!
We’ll let you fire laser beams out of your eyes!Disclaimer: We might be a little biased. 😉 pic.twitter.com/nbseH22pY2
— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) April 5, 2017
Then the Twitter account of Final Fantasy XIV chimed in: Laser eyes, huh? Here you have a building-sized meteor!
@Warcraft @S1N3N Laser eyes, huh? Here, have a building-sized meteor. pic.twitter.com/vdGxUxfvMB
— FINAL FANTASY XIV (@FF_XIV_EN) April 5, 2017
Warcraft asks: Building-sized? Gul’dan certainly has something to say about that!
@FF_XIV_EN @S1N3N Ahah! Gul’dan wants to have a word with you about the definition of “building-sized meteor”! pic.twitter.com/xJZvx62oaT
— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) April 6, 2017
Final Fantasy XIV topped that with: Okay, that’s big, but here’s an entire moon that becomes Bahamut! If Deathwing is lucky, he might get an audition.
@Warcraft @S1N3N That’s big, but we’ll raise you an entire moon harbouring the elder primal Bahamut! If Deathwing is lucky he might get an audience! 🙂 pic.twitter.com/1S0FYEJyc8
— FINAL FANTASY XIV (@FF_XIV_EN) April 6, 2017
WoW then: Destroying moons? That’s cute. What do you think about destroying entire worlds?
@FF_XIV_EN @S1N3N Destroying moons? That’s cute! What about an entire world? pic.twitter.com/ZxpehreqJu
— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) April 7, 2017
The streamer can hardly believe his luck that his tweet has sparked these reactions. He enjoys this attention and visibly revels in it.
What he ultimately plays, whether he spends his hours in WoW or Final Fantasy XIV, he leaves open. The latest videos on his Twitch account show him playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: That’s something completely different.
US site sees a paradigm shift… Well
The US site Massively sees the conflict between FF14 and WoW as a somewhat sharp-tongued change in the MMORPG landscape. In the past, World of Warcraft largely ignored all other MMORPGs and only borrowed from their latest ideas when a WoW expansion was due – they liked to borrow a few features.
This discussion now shows that times have changed. WoW can no longer simply destroy and absorb other MMOs as it used to.
We think: The demon should be left in the Nether. Paradigm shift is a bit far-fetched, but the Twitter “dispute” is certainly entertaining.
How we see the situation at both MMORPGs and 3 others, you can read in this article:
State of Play: Where are the MMORPGs WoW, ESO, GW2, FF14 and Black Desert in early 2017?
