Fun! List your reasons for playing ffXIV ARR!

Here are the reasons I play and keep playing FFXIV ARR/heavensward.

1. Community. ( I love you people!)
2. Game is beautiful.
3. Glam! Lol
4. Every class has real meaning.
5. Its super affordable entertainment.
6. Raids and primals are well thought out.
7. Game has very good support.
8. Its not WOW lol
9. Lalas
10. and more to be added later!

I really want to hear why everyone else plays!

Between every video game, card game, board game, and sports this is my favorite game ever : D

I stopped playing ARR, I play HW now.

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1. Meeting my friends ingame (irl friends that i have no possibility to see irl because we live to far - boyfriend included in this one)
2. So many things to do and so many things to learn
3. Scenary
4. Stories
5. Leveling classes and learning how to use them and getting better
6. if you don't want to bother with fighting there is gathering and crafting
7. mounts and minions!!!
8. glamour

^Same. And to level all the things?/Torture myself doing so? Probably a deeply ingrained mental short coming. Who knows.

Lore/Story/Characters
Glamour
Earning gil to support glamour habit
Dance parties
Leveling more classes because I hate myself
Continuing my education in Misanthropy 101 (aka Playing a Healer Class)
Asking others for gil to support my glamour habit
Minions

Lore and Story
Glamour
Friends
Beautiful areas
Slight addiction (let's be real)

1. Character progression/development: achievements, points, levels, ranks, logs, chocobo, titles, mounts etc. all can be done on one character.
2. Main story and side stories.
3. Class synergy and PvE: it's quite a deep game even at the easiest level. I only wish the GCD was shorter.
4. The world, monsters, glamours, houses all look stunning.
5. Roegadyns.
6. Community events, both SE-made and community-made. Fun to follow even if I don't participate.
7. Transparent development process. We know what we are getting, when and why.

Also, not the most important aspect but should be noted:

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Originally Posted by Zazriel

8. Its not WOW lol

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Originally Posted by Kemas

^Same. And to level all the things?/Torture myself doing so? Probably a deeply ingrained mental short coming. Who knows.

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I am getting crazy and leveling all the things so *offers glass of letstortureourselvestohaveeverythingcaplevel* enjoy

It's Final Fantasy! :D
It fixes a lot of issues/flaws that I despised in FFXI (which I also loved and have played for over a decade)
The lore/story/world is beautiful and, more than that, I feel we the community are inadvertently influencing it's ongoing design and development in very subtle ways, despite what some people think (thanks to Ferne and the rest of the lore/writing/localization teams interacting with us players about the game's lore and worldbuilding) :D
Being in the Alpha and Beta tests, as well as a Legacy Campaign member, I feel I made a personal contribution to the game's development, even if it was extremely minor. And as my name is in the end credits (as part of the 'Meteor Survivors', a perk of being a Legacy member), I feel I have a much deeper, personal connection to this game than any other I have played. :D

But most importantly, this is Final Fantasy, a FF game where I can create my own character and experience the game's story through the eyes of my character. I'll love this game forever! :D

Friends. I have 1-2 people I love leveling with just because they're fun to be around. Otherwise, playing alone is well, lonely.

So I can hug my mini-Ysayle minion.

Flexing my male Highlander while wearing the blue summer maro leg item.

Lore and story.

A bit of "sims" with the character creator.


But mainly as a way to get rid of my pokemon nuzloke challenge stress :/

1. Cheap way to hang out with RL friends who have moved away. I'm 1-2 hours away from most of them, and even those who are still in town all tend to be too busy for us to get together. (Unfortunately, Fallout 4 consumed about half of them. I don't expect them to return until December.)
2. Glamour. Glamour glamour glamour. So many clothes. So many. Much wardrobe. Very closet.
3. Final Fantasy story! I want to know what happens. I also tend to get a little shippy with the characters I like the most... (Aymeric/Lucia forever)
4. Crafting and gathering. They're a means to an end, but they also tend to be relaxing in their own right, especially fishing.