What keeps you playing?

[Zenaku]

The willingness to stay for a while and see where the game heads in the future wether good or bad is what keeps me playing

Pretty much this and that fact that i been playing from release date and never stop playing. Too much time put in this game to just drop it and play what f2p mmo no thanks lol.

[Estevo]

Side note: All these people praising the games story...makes me wonder how little their attention span is to actually think this game has a good storyline. The story is a typical JRPG cliche...but I guess that's what people like about it. Some people don't want originality, I guess that's okay too.

I'm pretty sure that people are praising the small details, and the ambiance of the story, after all that's half of what makes a story unique.

Remember, most of what you call cliches are just inevitable aspects of life, this is an mmo after all, they have a lot of ground to cover, not just the "original" stories that you're talking about (which IMO are already present in the game.) The complex unique story comes after the foundation has been set.

Also don't make the mistake that because it has a lot of inspired content and allusions to past ff games, it's unoriginal. If anything the game is even more creative and original because of these elements, because it's all implemented creatively and fits in with the world, so it actually is original in it's own way, especially for the series which usually has no connections between the various games .

[sayafrost]

People I play with, goals I set for myself is what keeps me going.

Same here.

On the other side if I get bored, or I'm alone and did what I wanted to do for the day, then i just log off and play some other game, but till now mostly i wasnt online it was because i was away and couldn't log in.

[KingCANO]

I've been playing consistently since the game launched on PS4 back in February. This is my first subscription-based MMO, and I am in no way a fanboy of the FF games (never beaten one before, first ones owned were IX and X, didn't care about any FF until Versus XIII [now XV] was announced, and never had any desire to play any of the main XIII ones). I really do love the world and visuals, and am no where near the point where I have run out of stuff to do/work toward. And even though I've been playing this long, it wasn't until recently that I joined a real FC with some actual active members. That has breathed even new life into the game for me. I look forward to having a chat with my FC Leader each day, and we help each other.

That said, I am taking some planned time off with the release of a certain MMO-esque shooter next week.

[Raxion]

Because there's literally nothing else for me to spend my free time doing other than watching TV (no thanks), or going to play another MMO (definitely not happening).

Seriously though, FFXIV is probably the best MMO on the market right now. The raids are really fun, and the people I play with make the game even more fun. Sure, I spend most of my day sitting at my FC house while I'm watching YouTube, but knowing that I'm not going to find a better experience elsewhere is what keeps me here.

Having said that, I'm not the kind of person to go out and level every job, crafter, and gatherer to 50. If I were, I'd still have more than enough to do. There are things in the game for me to do, I just choose not to do them.

[Garlyle]

My FC above all keeps me coming back. They're amazing(ly friendly) people and just being around them is a blast, and I really would have stopped a long time ago - instead they're so awesome I even asked friends to get XIV and join the FC as well and we're all enjoying it immensely.

As for in-game activities, my exact interests change every couple weeks. For a three-week period I was focused on maxing out Soldiery and doing other battle content to get my UAT weapon completed. By comparison, in the last week and a half, I've gotten maybe 100 soldiery each week and instead have been fishing like a madman. My interests jump all over the place to various personal goals, and there's enough going on in the game for me to do so.

[MistyMew]

I set a few personal goals but mainly waiting to see how an expansion is handled.
Over all I like the game, not love it. I have lost a lot of respect for the team over the poor design and implementation of hunts and the fact they are still not fixed makes me very uneasy with SE (imo)

The game is beautiful, gear design...meh somewhat clownish but better then some!

I have absolutely no interest in coil nor most primals due to terrible community attitude (not design nor difficulty)

FFXIV has become an "on the side" game for me now.

Will dive into WoD when that launches and I always have kept FFXI active too so with 3 games to bounce between ,I'm good with the current state of this game since I have others to go to when the decisions here are disappointing.

There is enough to keep me subbed but not too active.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

I set a few personal goals but mainly waiting to see how an expansion is handled.
Over all I like the game, not love it. I have lost a lot of respect for the team over the poor design and implementation of hunts and the fact they are still not fixed makes me very uneasy with SE (imo)

Hunts are fine now, its just the players that make them suck at this point.

[SGTDIDO228]

I keep playing because this is my first MMO and I am excited of the unknown about this game.

[Ryios]

Nothing, I quit a while back. I'm only back right now to see what changed, but I'm leaving again after this month.

I want raid content, not filler fluff. E.g. they spend so much time making so many things I'll never touch, and expect people to keep playing with 1 relevant raid to do... nope.