Quote Originally Posted by Ayuhra View Post
I'll use WoW again since it's fresh on my mind: I'd log in every day hoping today I'd get useful treasure from my garrison and today I'd get my loot drop and today I'd finish those goggles...then I realized I wasn't having fun. The game compelled me to keep playing but when I thought about it I realized I didn't really WANT to keep playing.
This is exactly why I quit Ragnarok Online too. I eventually realized that I was only logging in to grind for gear and cards that weren't even going to be much use to me because of the lack of meaningful content in the game that wasn't PvP or War of Empirium, neither of which particularly interested me. I wasn't engaged with the game world or any of that, I was just there to kill mobs for drops that had a horrendous drop rate.

With FFXIV, I'm invested in the world and the lore and the story and there is plenty of content to keep me busy in a fun way. Yes, there are grinds, but even the worst grind I've had in this game was nothing compared to the average grind in RO. What's more, we're guaranteed new content every couple of months, so there are always new things to look forward to.

This is the sort of progression I like because it actually FEELS like progression, not sitting in the same spot spinning your wheels.