What is your favorite thing about FFXIV?

Atmosphere, which is the combination good story, art and music.

Carbuncles. Always wanted to play a pet class with a cute pet. Given the prevalence of mascots in anime, I'm surprised it took this long. (Then of course SE not see they have a good thing on their hands, "removed" them completely after Lv 45.)


What game do you recommend I try next?

Not much out there really ...

Eve Online is very hardcore in the "dog eat dog"-sense from what I heard. It's pretty much a sandbox MMO where players do whatever they want. No main storyline to lead you around by your nose - it's the players that collectively write most of the story as they play. However, there is also no "government" to keep law and order.

I kind of wish there as an MMO that allowed a degree of freedom but with laws to keep things sane. Kind of wished that FFXIV would provide a little sandbox gameplay in addition to its story focused gameplay, side by side.