Why do you continue to play?

[Mudshovel]

Dark Souls 2 and ESO haven't come out yet

this is why i stil play

[Senzura]

ere are some that you can find in nearly every thread with a negative opinion about anything

People who like the game don't bother telling everyone about it, and just play the game. The minority that think the entire game is broken need to tell everyone about it.

[XenabelleS]

Mostly because my friends from other MMOs are playing this game.

For myself, I'm getting tired of the AOEs that hit me even when I am well out of the box, the mess that is gear and inventory management, the high likelihood that an hour long queue for a duty finder lvl 50 dungeon will be a failure due to inability to kill either the demon wall or the tonberry king or other people dropping and not getting replaced.

[Grailer]

Mostly because my friends from other MMOs are playing this game.

For myself, I'm getting tired of the AOEs that hit me even when I am well out of the box, the mess that is gear and inventory management, the high likelihood that an hour long queue for a duty finder lvl 50 dungeon will be a failure due to inability to kill either the demon wall or the tonberry king or other people dropping and not getting replaced.

Yeah played around on my lvl 32 healer , got Dungeon after 30 mins . Tank was in terrible gear , couldn't hold agro wiped 5x on first boss and everyone left . 1 hr wasted .

[sheepysheepy]

havn't finished yet..

[Orianas]

I guess I'll take a stab at this and try to explain some positions that I hold succinctly on the reason I (currently) continue to play.


SOOOO.... Apparently these forums suck for trying to debate a point... 1000 characters really? Fine condensed into super short points...

1) Difficulty - Brayflox, Titan, & Garuda were interested and had me excited about endgame encounters, but they dropped the ball.

2) Community - Overall most the community at release of this game was good and while people have started dropping off overall it's still not bad.

3) Gameplay - More tactical feeling due to GCD & animation locking. THIS IS NOT A BAD THING.

4) People - Really the only reason I'm still around is the people I've met here.

[Orianas]

With all that said I'll list some reasons why I (and people with similar mindset) and even people closer to the 'casual' end of the spectrum won't continue to play if things don't change.

Things to do:

1) You can say it all day long, but honestly most people won't level all classes and gear them and even if they do I can level and gear a class in 3 days most of the time.

2) Raiding... Well let's see most 'hardcore' people would spend 12-14 hours on per week and we have less than 7 hours worth of content right now (that's if you are doing turn 5 for 6 of those hours....)

3) Grinding Philo tomes? Why? Well this goes back to point 1 and thats the only reason.

4) Leveling up Chocobo? Yea.... not interested in a combat pet that really has no point other than to farm with.

5) Anything else I'm missing?

Overall I probably as well as all 50 of my FC members probably won't be subscribing outside of this month. It's a drop in the bucket but honestly I'm sure I'm not alone. And with 2.1 bringing very little of a reason to stick around I probably won't subscribe again unless PvP is AMAZING. Because, honestly that would be the only reason 2.1 looks interesting. Taking a step back in level of difficulty is a horrible oversight.

[Meshico]

Is because I enjoy the sense of community, the accomplishments, and the Personal Achievements/Goals I've set for myself.

The game is a great way to meet new and interesting people, and hopefully make some friends!

On a different note, it can also teach you a lot of RL lessons, and I kinda enjoy that as well.

But yeah, its you people that keep this game interesting to me

[coffeerox]

I continue to play because I believe the game will get better over time, so while it is not optimal at the moment, I'll keep playing to get more ilvl90 gear so I can be ready for new content whenever that hits.

[MXMoondoggie]

Well i suppose the game has a future with stuff they have planned it depends how quick they can get content out to build on the foundation they have. Endgame still needs work which feels like always the case with an MMO when it gets released. The main problem is a lot of developers are slow to build content to keep people interested once they are done with the main story.


Right now i play just because i still have a sub so i'll get my monies worth. Still have coils to do so i'll find a group for that and in between that i just end up doing random dungeons for the fun of it and farming tomes for my +1 Relic.