If You're Still Around What's Holding Your Interest and Sub?

[Rayne6665]

Mainly MSQ and looking forward to the new ff11 alliance raid tho i never played it, and whatever other shit is coming with 7.1 lol my sub is running out of playtime soon in like December 26th 2024 lol house ? No house cus fuck rng lottery right? XD Friends? No friends. FC? No fc. Don't need no FC. I got kicked and now im a solo player doing my own thing. Dailies Roulettes (for weekly) and some other shit then log out playing other games (getting back into Tales of Berseria) and plus ima be transferring from levi to mateus anyways whenever the world isn't congested. I dont belong in levi anymore XD

And ofc ill be doing 7.0 again on new game+ like every other expansions i did LOL

[Rinoa_353]

This is my comfort game and has been for years now where I hop on to craft on the days I don't feel like doing content runs. I enjoy both the content and community of the game, I have made some great friends throughout the years and they are one big reason why I hop on daily even if it's just to chat while I craft or such. I also essentially main two catgirls who are both pentamelded omnicrafters, so that's plenty of things I have to keep me busy. Then another big reason are my homes that are personal mansions that took me years to work towards and I also enjoy decorating a lot too. I look forward to 7.1 and hope to see the new housing changes implemented sooner like the furnishing limit expansion for example.

[Keumjo]

My house and the FFXI raid are the only reason I remain subbed or had any hype for Dawntrail.

[Feina]

I think it's just a nice game to vibe in personally. Part of a small FC who get along IRL, I have a few ingame friends who I've known since first starting FF & chat to most days. Attached to my WoL from my entire characters journey and overall I really enjoy the world that's been made.

Some days I can hop on and run whatever content I'm interested in without the pressure to hit X tomes or complete Y content, others I can just semi-afk at my house crafting, while doing IRL work in the background etc - it's pretty chill compared to other MMO's I've played

[Avoidy]

I go to Dynamis and help newbies with their MSQ partyfinders. Queues don't pop fast there, so it's really common to put your story mode trial up in the PF instead.
Usually I'm a big fan of moogle tomestone events, but this one was pretty lackluster imo. I wish yoshida would do less interviews glazing dawntrail and begging people to stay, and actually push more content into the game at a quicker pace. Compared to pretty much any other live service game on the market, XIV's 4.5 month schedule is actually pathetic.

[Andanie]

Crafting, housing, rp, the fact I've done none of the society quest and I'm an insane person that plays alts. (This is technically an alt).

I think if I was a one character person I'd have taken a break by now.

Oh and the fact that I have a medium in a prime spot and I have to log in once every 40ish days to keep my house.

[Jojoya]

I go to Dynamis and help newbies with their MSQ partyfinders. Queues don't pop fast there, so it's really common to put your story mode trial up in the PF instead.
Usually I'm a big fan of moogle tomestone events, but this one was pretty lackluster imo. I wish yoshida would do less interviews glazing dawntrail and begging people to stay, and actually push more content into the game at a quicker pace. Compared to pretty much any other live service game on the market, XIV's 4.5 month schedule is actually pathetic.

Better FFXIV's 4.5 month schedule than WoW's bug filled mess because they push out patches before things are ready.

My subscription here ended yesterday because I decided I needed a break. Started playing WoW again a couple of weeks ago to see how it's changed. They've brought talent trees back - wonderful, I missed them when they took them away.

What they haven't changed is releasing patches full of bugs and ignoring most of them. Every single time I log onto one of my characters (or get disconnected from the game server - it's been worse for me there than people have been experiencing here) I have to reset my UI layout because the game only saves the layout itself without saving the layout to the character. Switch between zones held on different world servers (not the same thing as a world server here) and I seem to have a 50% chance of getting disconnected. End game gearing is an overly complicated mess for no good reason.

And I miss housing. Heck, I miss inn rooms. It's nice having that quiet place to myself to sort inventory, craft or create new transmog (glamour) sets without other player distraction. I've found myself retreating to my Garrison because there's no other private place to go to do those things and Garrisons were one of the worst things they had done to that game.

I will be coming back here after my break and I feel like that break is going to end sooner than I had planned. At least here I can sense the developers' love for the game even if they make some less than popular decisions or get hamstrung by budget restrictions. WoW feels like it's just a job for people, whether developer or player. If it weren't for running into some old old friends and getting to chat, I might have given up already.

For those NA players sticking around here only because of housing, join the demo suspension party. I doubt they'll enable again before January so you have a couple of months to do other things and decide if the game is still worth playing or it's time to give up your house and move on.

[Avoidy]

Better FFXIV's 4.5 month schedule than WoW's bug filled mess because they push out patches before things are ready.

I don't even play WoW and never mentioned it. There are literal f2p mmos out there with faster content rollouts than this one sis.

[Shougun]

Better FFXIV's 4.5 month schedule than WoW's bug filled mess because they push out patches before things are ready.

My subscription here ended yesterday because I decided I needed a break. Started playing WoW again a couple of weeks ago to see how it's changed. They've brought talent trees back - wonderful, I missed them when they took them away.

What they haven't changed is releasing patches full of bugs and ignoring most of them. Every single time I log onto one of my characters (or get disconnected from the game server - it's been worse for me there than people have been experiencing here) I have to reset my UI layout because the game only saves the layout itself without saving the layout to the character. Switch between zones held on different world servers (not the same thing as a world server here) and I seem to have a 50% chance of getting disconnected. End game gearing is an overly complicated mess for no good reason.

And I miss housing. Heck, I miss inn rooms. It's nice having that quiet place to myself to sort inventory, craft or create new transmog (glamour) sets without other player distraction. I've found myself retreating to my Garrison because there's no other private place to go to do those things and Garrisons were one of the worst things they had done to that game.

I will be coming back here after my break and I feel like that break is going to end sooner than I had planned. At least here I can sense the developers' love for the game even if they make some less than popular decisions or get hamstrung by budget restrictions. WoW feels like it's just a job for people, whether developer or player. If it weren't for running into some old old friends and getting to chat, I might have given up already.

For those NA players sticking around here only because of housing, join the demo suspension party. I doubt they'll enable again before January so you have a couple of months to do other things and decide if the game is still worth playing or it's time to give up your house and move on.

I'm enjoying a lot of the flavor (roleplay) in the game, so I give them a lot of credit for that. However.... on bugs.. I have teleported into absolutely nothing like three times in under two weeks, having to use the unstick service cause I was just falling in the sky unable to port out, a service I've never used in FFXIV, and had a few crashes unrelated to DDOS, some of it might be addon related but the default UI is usually less informative than FFXIV's so you feel compelled to have it.

So yeah.. they've got the motto of play hard and break stuff lol.

I actually really like my Garrison though, so disagree on worst thing.. though I know its a popular hate point for WoW.. Some of it we wouldn't mind though, as some of the complaints are like "people just teleported into the dungeons with the finder" and that's something we've been doing since ever. Or "makes my profession less useful" as they allowed players to multi-profession for that expansion, something we'd welcome. I understand some hate is contextual to the issues at the time- like I didn't play when there was a content drought with this content being forced for effective prog, PER all your alts + economy destroying gold mines (made worse by all the alts). With the short timers and original progression speed you had to babysit it a lot. Many elements not as bad- now, like the Garrison no longer breaks the economy (maybe nerfed too hard, but better than before- their alt system makes this type of thing easily problematic unfortunately).

I wish Island Sanctuary was as good as WoW's Garrison is currently. There is a lot more gameplay baked into it than our Island.

[Xaruko_Nexume]

Im still having a blast doing side quests, crafting and decorating houses, Running roulettes, meeting new people, still havent found time for bozja or eureka. Started in ShB. They are keeping my sub because I still have a lot of fun and stuff I want to accomplish in game.