Why do you keep playing FFXIV ?

[OfTheWhitewind]

Because there's always something to do! Also because this has been my first MMORPG experience ever so I'm pretty much like the obnoxious kid at Disney World for the first time that wants to do EVERYTHING.

[Eidolon]

You know I'm actually hitting this issue of late.

Why do I keep logging in?

Because SE has me trained to think that not logging in = missing a lockout = falling behind. I'm starting to question if I log in for fun anymore, since running the /same/ expert every week is boring, getting the /same/ red scrips every week is boring, running the /same/ alexander (normal) is boring to gear alt jobs. The caps just make this feel like such a tedious grind that I'm really feeling like this game is getting worst and worst.

If it wasnt' for my freinds I'd probably have unsubbed by now.

[Reinha]

I stay subbed because I'm satisfied with how the game is now and the way it's going forward. Heavy emphasis on quests, a leveling experience where you can actually die if not careful and professions that actually take time and thought. Those are the main things I like about this game.

As for what I do in-game. Oh boy that's a long list. Leveling all classes, completing logs, finishing all quests, getting a few relic weapons for glamour, getting a glamour for my most played jobs, leveling desynth, leveling chocobo, getting MGP, doing achievements with a cosmetic reward of some kind, doing beastman dailies for mounts, collecting gil to buy a mansion some day and gearing up my main with tomes. Maybe I'll have time to farm mounts and minions at the end of this expac. ._.

[DragonHunterG]

I'm addicted.

[Obysuca]

Because there's always something to do! Also because this has been my first MMORPG experience ever so I'm pretty much like the obnoxious kid at Disney World for the first time that wants to do EVERYTHING.

>_> XIV's your first mmo experience? I'm sorry lol

I mean, theres far worse mmos out there, but theres also far far better ones. Sure, theres a lot of WoW clones out there, but XIV's a watered down WoW clone aimed at people with low attention span (able to cap by doing 1 expert a day) / people who don't want to have to think (no special stats, no procs, no elemental weakness, no resistances, no multiple gearing choices, only a single path in dungeons, your gearing choice picked out for you etc) or people who have never played a mmo so they don't know that there's better and XIV has a lot of bad game designs :/ Only reason its stayed up for so long is because it's got FF in the title, which won't carry it forever.

[OfTheWhitewind]

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Well, considering I'm a casual player with a low attention span, not interested in learning a million different game mechanics and have never touched an MMO before now I would say FF14 is just fine and probably the only one I'll ever touch. :P And to be honest the other MMOs out there really do not interest me in the slightest.

Sure I "don't know there's better" ones out there but eh. I don't really wanna know, being the filthy casual that I am. Ignorance is bliss.

[Colorful]

>_> XIV's your first mmo experience? I'm sorry lol

I mean, theres far worse mmos out there, but theres also far far better ones. Sure, theres a lot of WoW clones out there, but XIV's a watered down WoW clone aimed at people with low attention span (able to cap by doing 1 expert a day) / people who don't want to have to think (no special stats, no procs, no elemental weakness, no resistances, no multiple gearing choices, only a single path in dungeons, your gearing choice picked out for you etc) or people who have never played a mmo so they don't know that there's better and XIV has a lot of bad game designs :/ Only reason its stayed up for so long is because it's got FF in the title, which won't carry it forever.

I've played dozens of MMOs (maybe more than 100 at this point) and FFXIV is 2nd to only WoW pre-WoD (a lot disagree, but I loved Mists), and probably less popular opinion, Runescape back before they added the P2W crap. I think you're greatly exaggerating the things other games have over it. It is missing a lot of things sure, but as of now it's the only MMO worth my time and money. I haven't played FFXI so I can't compare it to that myself, but it sounds downright awful. Some classes have one job which is to stun a monster at a certain point? Gear taking months and months to obtain? I don't find things like that very fun.

I think the only major flaw comes from the raid and dungeon environments being very lacking, and I suppose that could be blamed on the lack of money they're making, or the lack of money SE is willing to invest back into the game from the profits. For example, all of WoD and Alexander are well, aesthetically similar (each boss room) and overall look downright "boring". I guess it comes down to opinion in the end, but if you compare Alexander to the likes of Throne of Thunder, you can easy tell which one had far for time and money put into it. Not just in boss count, but visually. The trash was somewhat interesting, or rather the paths to the boss, the bosses felt more interesting and looked a lot more interesting, a few examples are Durumu the Forgotten, Horridon, Dark Animus, Megaera and Lei Shen. The boss rooms usually weren't just rectangular or squares (or maybe they were but they just spiced them up significantly rather than the bland samey looking ones in FFXIV). But that's an unrelated issue.

I think all the issues boil down the lack of money, and with a fairly small sub number compared to the mammoth that is WoW (aprx. 600k) they don't have much of it in comparison. They also tend to spread their development efforts too thin, across multiple things without focusing on perfecting one thing. This is a fairly large issue to me, and results in most things never being used by players because they're not developed well enough.

[Rufalus]

Genuinely curious, what do you mean by PvE specifically?

I've been really struggling with the lack of PvE content once you hit 60 T_T All I really do now is raid on raid nights, roulettes, then it's either fluff or gathering/crafting. I kinda wish this game had more quests, ironic as that sounds. Repeatables and more sidequests would be great!

Well I do every daily roulette, daily and weekly hunt bills, dungeon and fate and levequest spam to level up all 13 battle jobs, occasionally do raid normal difficulty.

I can see people running out of content when they only play one job and then stop doing anything. Playing every job takes an enormous amount of time, I've been grinding for months now since the expansion released.

[AnaviAnael]

I play this game for something to do with friends. Unfortunately, they stopped logging in and in turn so have I. That's the only downside of a small FC. ><

[Atrious]

Last night, i logged off, and thought about "Why do i keep playing?"

Im a fairly new player, so you could say that this question isnt even justified, now that i havent seen the entire end game.

But will it be like my WoW days? Logging in on raiding nights, raid for 2-3 hours, logoff and play something else?

I guess my question is also : What stuff do you actually do ingame, beside a few raiding nights ?

Id love to hear from anyone.

eh, I basically pay 14 a month to talk to friends lol.....

The game to me is pretty boring and only looks good. This is only my personal opinion though :P