Quote Originally Posted by Gwenkatsu View Post
A MMO these days is my home away from home experience. I just decide day by day what I want to do now, no stress, no meeting demands, and *no* hard content - real life has enough of that, don't need this in my spare time.
For example: When CE hit, it got obvious very fast that I have no idea of how crafting works. So I just started leveling my crafters on an alt char, to relearn what I once knew. End result - I now mostly ignore CE, and just continue leveling that char I will never use her as a crafter, but at the moment it's just a fun thing to do, so that's what I'm doing for now. When I finish it (or loose interest), I will just do something else.
This is my playstyle, and FF14 is a very good place to live it. Of course there are things I don't like, but these are everywhere. Story being one of them, but I got through the terribad ARR post-MSQ and the Stormblood story, so I will also get through Dawntrail
I could relate really well with your post, back when I started playing FF 14 every streamer and YouTuber keeped telling me rush the MSQ get to the endgame and then fokus on side content... and I was just like... you know what I think I level all crafter and gatherer jobs because continiuing even ARR.
It then became my entire thing do do all the sidequest and content bevore advancing to the next expansion. Heck I made all the Relic weapons every expansion and I think Eureka Weapons permanently damaged my sanity but I still was proud on having archived it.

Which makes me now with 7300 Hours in this game... and still a sproud, so my main problem is all I right now have to look forward to is the shitshow that is the DT story and every new patch jobs beeing watered down even more. So there is no side content for me I could do hoping the Devs wake up and roll back a lot of the Job changes.
I also cannot just start a new character because the main draw to that would be to enjoy the leveling process of the jobs again... which I would really love to do if I still enjoyed playing this jobs.

Honestly when I reached Shadowbringer and noticed there are no Job Quests anymore but Role quests I was dissapointed but in retrospekt I see it as the point were the devs stoped caring for Jobidentity.