Just got this game...

[Demacia]

I honestly don't do NM's very much... I mostly just enjoy partying with friends and killing mobs for the heck of it. Its more about the community than anything else. But somehow I find myself never without something to do in the game. If you look at grinding as a bad thing, you may not like this game. But If you don't put in work, you'll never progress. Its just like real life, you work towards goals, and when you get near them, you re-assess the goals and make new ones. Always having something to strive for. When you have friends that also share in these goals, it only makes the game that much more fun.

I play FFXI. I know all about grinding. Thing is in that game I have endless goals to reach and things to see, but not in this one. I can grind classes to 50 for what? Make millions of gil for what? Explore what? There's just nothing there right now. In FFXI I grind to 18 to unlock subjobs, 20 to unlock my chocobo/do garrison, 25 to do eco warrior, 30 to unlock my advanced jobs/start CoP, 40 to do missions up to rank 5/get airship access/run BCNM bosses, 50 to break the level cap/do campaign, 60 to get my AF armor/pvp/start zilart missions/get rank 6, 65 to unlock Dynamis/Sky access, and 75 for basically everything else. I can keep going because I know the further I go the more new and exciting shit awaits me. What can I grind for in XIV? To slay a few NMs for a lame reward? Then what? Can't even do leves in Mor Dhona.

MMOs are only great when you have a bunch of friends to play with, but they'll all quit if there's nothing to do in the game.