Quote Originally Posted by Rolder50 View Post
I'm not trying to argue if it's good or bad, merely pointing out that the other poster saying the game is more akin to a visual novel with occasional gameplay is pretty accurate.
Which is fair to say that honestly. Still, you only go through the whole story once as a new player. Access to participate in current endgame is a lot more approachable and easy compared to other MMOs and that alongside whatever other content you passed up takes the majority of player's retention time. I cant fully vouche for this as Im currently playing with alt characters but I always have something to do every day. I just dont spend my whole day playing FFXIV. I setup a short task thats easy done in whatever prog Im doing and then I log out and play something else.