Quote Originally Posted by genuine_stranger View Post
^This.

I am playing 2 F2P games currently and spend around 20 - €30 a month on them combined. For what it's worth, they offer me a better value per money spent than FFXIV. I can log in for 30*min - 1h daily, make some progress and move on.
Truth be told, I got caught off guard and spent far too much money on one than I'm comfortable with, but that's the stupid tax. Learned my lesson after that.

Compared to 14, where I don't have any meaningful long-term progression for my character, so I log in maybe once every two weeks check on my retainers and log out.
FF14 also can include gatcha char progression like "Do 15 times CT3 in order to gain 1 token and this token give you a 10% chance to upgrade your tome weapon from i720 to i722" but I dont think that actually real content