What do you love in FFXIV

[DreamAngel-Ren]

The story, the music, and the fanservice.

You pretty much summed it up for me lol There's also the glamour/gear and minions and the beautiful graphics ^^
I love this game so much! :]

UPDATE: I totally forgot about the gpose content! I LOVE taking pictures of my beautiful character

[SeriousxSarcasm]

The music, <3 The story is only getting better, and I love the effort they put into the glam and housing features! I always feel like I have something to accomplish, and this is 2 years later with only a handful of weeks total break.

[Aster_E]

Right now? Spending quality time with my friends.

Before 4.3? Doing content and working on various achievements . . . and spending quality time with my friends.

[einschwartz]

Gpose.
I love outdoor photoshoot. Can spend entire day sitting at a spot waiting for the perfect weather, align my character to the constantly moving moon/sun for a good frame. Use different emotes to achieve certain gestures. So many things I can control to capture a good looking screenshot!

[Canadane]

Thank you Final Fantasy for 5 wonderful years.

Same, but 8.

[Reylinn]

Housing and Glamour are my endgame and I appreciate them!

[GetFoesReqd]

It would probably be easier to say what I do not like, but highlights include the beautiful characters, beautiful music, beautiful environments, great story, plenty of things to do that are quite different, and I have a great FC on Zalera now to enjoy it all with. I could nitpick, but I would feel so petty with all the good that is everywhere. So I'll leave it at that, and say here's to the next 5 years of this game. I know I please look forward to it. ^_^

[Meillquei]

Most of all, I love the community. A majority of the community is so nice and helpful and accepting of any mistakes. Plus, I got super lucky and found a fantastic FC that makes this game so much more enjoyable.

I also love that this game is so casual friendly. Raiding isn't THE game like it is in WOW. It's nice that I could raid if I wanted to but I don't have to. I love being able to just ride around and take spontaneous screenshots or pick flowers or just sit in the yard of my house if I want to. There's always so much to do if I choose to do it, I feel like I will never run out of things to do!

[supaiku]

~ Community - I think this game has a really good community, I rarely see bad ppl and most of the time the ppl I get in df/pf are fun to play with. Mistakes happen, and if they happen too often in a farm group I will just leave and join another one. And I have a great FC :3
~ Extreme trials and savage raids - I'm also interested in the ultimate fights, but atm I'm not willing to spend so much time to progress in a single encounter.
~ Glamour - Because as we all know, glamour is the real endgame. I wouldn't mind having more options, but I like the ones we currently have.
~ Music - this game has so many great soundtracks, I love it *_*
~ Minions & Mounts - I like collecting them (but I have to admit that I got pretty tired after killing Byakko 99x)

Can't say anything about the story because I'm one of those ppl who skip through everything x)

[purgatori]

Story: This is probably my main draw for any game. It's why I love the Final Fantasy games, and a big part of why I love FFXIV.

Characters: Really a subset of 'story' for me (and, pointedly, not the other way around).
Character design: The characters are so gorgeous (especially the ladies of the Miqo'te and Au Ra, and especially especially Y'shtola)! And I always appreciate when a game's character creator allows me to create a character who looks awesome, rather than hideous. That might not sound like such a rare or outlandish feature, but anyone else who has played Soulsborne or TES games will know my pain.

Lore: This is something I wished that the game put front-and-center a bit more; both in terms of having lore impact the main plot, and also in the accessibility of the lore. Some sort of in-game codex would be nice, especially if it contained distilled entries for what went down in the raids and so on for those of us who don't do the raids.

Combat: Being an Aussie, MMO's that opt for action combat only result in suffering, so I really appreciate FFXIV's more traditional tab-targeting fare. But, while it may be traditional, and even 'conservative' in some respects, it is absolutely on the leading edge of interesting mechanics, awesome effects, and impactful animations. I mean, I feel much more powerful as a DRK swinging around a telephone-pole slab of metal around than I do in the comparatively more action-oriented ESO.

Sights and sounds: While I think the game is in need of some higher-resolution character textures, and perhaps another overhaul to the lighting engine, it still has some of the best vistas in the world of MMO's. Moreover, the art design consistently saves the experience even when technical limitations rear their ugly heads. And of course, that music...