Think of it this way - there's probably games you used to play a lot when you were younger but haven't touched for years. Just like there's restaurants or coffee shops you might have enjoyed going to that have since closed down or you can no longer get to easily due to moving far away.

FFXIV isn't going to be around forever or even necessarily keep you interested for as long as it does exist. So with that in mind, I think it's best to be careful and not just replace one time sink with another time sink purely on the basis of wanting something to fill your free time with.

If you enjoy FFXIV? Great! Play it. Don't force it to 'fit' if it doesn't click with you, though - there's other potential options on the market that you could try. Some of them MMO's, others single player.

Above all else, no matter what controversies a company is involved in...the fond memories aren't necessarily invalidated. I stopped supporting Blizzard when racist and sexist comments were made by writers hired by the company. It was shocking to me that such horrible things were being written on Twitter and so I voted with my wallet and haven't looked back since.

Yet I still made some friends during my time playing WoW and I'm in touch with some of them to this very day.