seriously though.

same laptop, same conditions.

ffxiv, with everyone's spell effects, plus the fancy bosses, plus all other fucking nonsense, in a big raid? smooth as butter. no hiccups, no stutters. 24 people, shiny shiny spell effects, fancy clothing, crazy boss animations, adds - no problem.

WoW?

it's a 50-50 shot i actually load dalaran instead of getting booted from the server because WoW has a screaming tearful meltdown. and that's with maybe 2 other actual players in dalaran.