What keeps you playing?

[Dyvid]

For me:
-Fear of loosing my small house.
-The now rare change to socialize in my FC or in one of the linkshells I'm in.
-It wastes time.

Pretty much. I used to enjoy logging in; running dungeons and such because I enjoyed combat system along with playing certain jobs, but those days are long over.

HW classic server anyone? >_>

[SleepyHomieAria]

I need to do the omega savages as blue, I need that title that’s even rarer than ultimates KEK.

Oh and I’ve been in a blm bender recently, class is super fun esp when you get good at hard fights with it.

[Corbeau]

The only thing that keeps me playing is PvP. Despite all it's flaws, Crystalline Conflict is very good and has genuine class identities.

[XelaYura]

The only thing that keeps me here, is my smol house that i hold dear, leveling my crafters and gatheres (thru GC provsioning tho), and G-pose.

[hagare]

necromancy

[Minarisweet]

My friends, my miqo'te and I recently started achievement hunting which honestly makes the game make much more sense... I recommend other people start achievement hunting too.

[Thaciscokidd]

Variety.

Play XiV do roulettes,pvp, alts and stuff til I get bored then go play WoW and World PVP and kill rares in Zereth Mortis, help people get AoTC before Season 4 starts and prog mythic, then go play Lost Arc(Since Tera is shutting down rip) then play an offline/mobile game (SRW, FGO, Genshin Impact, Elden Ring) then by that time my itch to play 14 starts again and I start the whole cycle over again.

[Vav2021]

Hi folks. Been off the game for a while after a massive bit of burn out. I'm finding it hard to go back. I'm just curious... What keeps you playing the game? Maybe I can find a new reason to enjoy. Thanks!

What keeps me playing? Well, for one, it's better than WoW. For a frame of reference of where I came from, here's a video I recorded about two months or so before I left.
https://youtu.be/YqoJOrWqCtU
It's 9 minutes long. I posted the video because nobody is going to believe me with what I am going to tell them: I was playing one of the most popular and renown MMORPGs in gaming history, on a "highly" populated server. In that video I posted, I chain-travelled to EVERY hot spot, mid-day. Ghost towns. I even went over to the Horde side, to find it empty. This is on WoW, a "highly" populated server, I need remind you.

I'm about five months into FFXIV. The community is active, and growing. It does have problems and could use some work, yes, but just about every MMO game does. This game isn't too difficult, and I like that. In addition to the gameplay dying, activision/blizzard started making very alarming business decisions -- from hiring the Leukophobic Misandrist, madeleine roux (Whom they did not comment on her hateful behavior), to actively attacking the player base. Speaking of the playerbase, you know what's worse than not hearing from the devs? How about having the game hijacked from the consumers, openly and unapologetically?


And again



I like the players. I like the atmosphere, the classes, the game doesn't have real world socio/political issues in it, I love the pets (especially the fat cat), the game just overall is a breath of fresh air compared to what I played before. I mean, for God's sake I see people arrange orchestras on a regular basis.

In short, what keeps me playing, is that it's good. To me anyway. And if you're a fellow WoW refugee, I have just one question for you....





Edit: Also, the Fat Cat is a factor on why I keep playing. It makes me smile, and brings me to a more positive attitude. It's just so adorable.

[MilkieTea]

I keep playing it because I derive joy out of it. There are things it can improve upon - if there weren't I'd be scared for the game because that means it's only downhill from there. But I feel as though what it does, it does well. I enjoy the story, the characters, glamming, and raiding. I recently cleared P2S (Not well, but I did it!) and my group is about to mount farm tomorrow. I'm working on leveling my alt, clearing my map of quests on my main, and just having fun.

[Theodric]

A combination of the following factors:

- There's no real viable competitors on the market at the moment that are to my liking.
- I like my character's design.
- The dreaded 'sunk-cost fallacy'.
- I'm lucky enough to own a mansion in-game.
- I still harbour some hope that my issues with the game will be addressed at least to some extent.
- Friends and associates.
- The new PvP mode is pretty fun.