Why telling people to unsub is a horrible defense of the game.

[FoxyAreku]

Really? Weird being low level and pretty early on progression I still pass by other players doing similar content. Still find players doing PotD, Raids, ARR Extreme trials and completing quests. I can join majority of the content and find a party in reasonable time the only major exception being ARR Coils of Bahamuth. Ultimately there's enough for me to do with others despite still being in early HW. Can't say the same about my experience in WoW where it was one giant race to max level and then you could actually start playing the game... By grinding dailies and tasks to maintain your progress...

Sounds like you had a bad experience, or played WoW during a bad patch cycle. Lots of people play WoW just for leveling just like people play FFXIV just for leveling and the only time it'd be a 'race to max level' would be if you were being pressured by friends who don't want to level with you, much like XIV actually. For old zones, the difference is XIV's story requires you to go everywhere (and then never again when that MSQ is over), while WoW lets you do the stories you want to do since they aren't necessarily connected, this might make WoW 'emptier' but it allows for more player choice. WoW doesn't even have dailies anymore either, the reason WoW gets a rap for 'game doesn't start til endgame' is because there is just so much to do at max level, but that doesn't mean there isn't stuff to do during leveling either.

But like I said different strokes, this isn't really relevant to the discussion at hand. WoW just has more to do for a long-time player. All that stuff you mentioned is stuff I've literally cleared years ago a hundred times so I have no desire to do it again, especially since they're much easier now then they used to be (and even when I did want to do them, parties never filled up unless it was unsynced. Only reason it might be better now is because of the surge of new players recently, it'll die again).