What is considered fun to you in MMORPG?

[Heat]

Just wanted to know how people in this game or any MMORPG consider some cotenant as fun.

What's your daily life would look like in an MMO of your dream?

I'll start with what I really would like to do in an MMORPG:

1- Doing crazy long story missions that would last 6+ months (some solo/some with group of 4-6 people and some epic 12+ people) that involve killing bosses and nice cutscene in it.

2- Running after my job's specific gear that involve gathering/crafting/solo bosses/ and group dungeons, with a story behind each and every part of my set.

3- Monthly events that would involve solo/group activities, and takes between 2-3 days to hunt monsters and group craft an item that in the end it means something to someone.

4- Dynamic huge world quests that force people to group up in large numbers to defend a city or take down a dragon.

5- Exploring sky/underwater cotenant with breath taking graphics of waterfalls and nice clouds.

All the things I said above do exist in different MMO'S, but not all of them in one MMO'.

I hope FFXIV would achieve this one day, and hope it's very soon.

[Wolfie]

Small group content that is accessible, somewhat short, has some difficulty, has some sort of objective, and does not involve grinding the same type of mob for ages.

Some examples: WOW heroic dungeons, FFXI's COP missions/ENM/BCNM/Assault/whatever, Aion's dungeons/fortress sieges/rifting/dredgion.

Solo questing, PVP, or getting achievements is also good for the days where I know I can't devote long hours to the game or where I know I can be interrupted at any time and don't want to screw over groups.

[Zahak]

We need some old school cop difficulty raids....that would be fun! At least I think so

[Choyi]

Eight things which I consider bringing me the most fun when playing a MMO:

1. Challenging end game content with lots of variation, both instanced and open world.

2. Character devolopment up to(leveling multiple jobs/classes) and above the level cap (merit system or similar).

3. Both large(8-24) and small(2-6) scale party content like open world dungeons, instanced battle zones, campaign/behest large scale battlefields, BCNM type battles.

4. Regular as well as rare world events (monster invasions etc).

5. Many long mission based story arcs to play trough, with challenging boss fights and cool cutscenes.

6. Exploration of varied and exotic lands.

7. Rare monster hunting like NM and HNMs.

8. Longer Quest chains which affect the gameworld (least trough your eyes with a form of phasing system or similar) with a good story to tell.
Like saving a small town from a threat, aid the rebuiling of a outpost, unmasking a high official NPC as a traitor etc.

[Coldfire]

1. Playing the evil guy
2. Claiming me a castle in a huge pvp battle
3. Building my own dungeon/house
4. Fighting battles that require individual skill
5. Exploring dungeons/towers/etc. that have more than 2 levels

[captainpicard]

1. non-instanced group content in the form of either grind parties (that require strategy and specialization)
2. mission type content like Zilart from FF11 (this can be instanced)

[Sylvari]

1- Doing crazy long story missions that would last 6+ months (some solo/some with group of 4-6 people and some epic 12+ people) that involve killing bosses and nice cutscene in it.

2- Running after my job's specific gear that involve gathering/crafting/solo bosses/ and group dungeons, with a story behind each and every part of my set.

3- Monthly events that would involve solo/group activities, and takes between 2-3 days to hunt monsters and group craft an item that in the end it means something to someone. and all season event etc in general!!

4- Dynamic huge world quests that force people to group up in large numbers to defend a city or take down a dragon.

5- Exploring sky/underwater cotenant with breath taking graphics of waterfalls and nice clouds.

All the things I said above do exist in different MMO'S, but not all of them in one MMO'.

I hope FFXIV would achieve this one day, and hope it's very soon.

I love doing events in MMO's they're so much fun... and just randomly enjoying conversations with ppl!! Leveling up is always more fun with a good conversation...

[Godai]

How about weekly LS "guild" events where you pvp for the right to have your LS crest flown in one of the city-states + some small bonus in that region. That would make for some great battles!

[weeble]

cop like missions, any expansion missions with the major part of it being party play and lots of bosses, hard battles, farming and enjoyable. also liked the mini expansions, heck make one for every summoner and how there creation happened and i'll pay 10bucks for each one. lots of cut scenes and party play yesplease.

also love party grinds and full linkshell events...i'm like a broken record with these 3 things, they were the most important and fun things in ffxi that created a full on judgment of all other mmo's. it is what i expect from them and yet no other mmo has gotten close. my theme is Party Play. give it too me. this game is my last hope, i might need to just quit mmo's if this one fails me lmao. u casual rejects with the consept of gimmie gimmie easy peasy has literally ruined my idea of mmo's. /fail /end

[Chardrizard]

Dynamic Events that requires alot of people yes please.