Quote Originally Posted by Purrfectstorm View Post
There are fun and unfun grinds
I think people are underestimating the fun that building a character is. Even when I was little I used to always love playing Final Fantasy and leveling my characters to 99, and getting them the best gear and armor. Unlocking secret legendary weapons, getting rare items, ect. These are the things that make RPGs in general fun.

It's not that FFXIV isn't fun, because it is. But they make it so easy to get to a point where you simply can't advance your character anymore due to walls. One wall is the time gate (where you only get a couple hours of progress each week) and the other wall is the monsterous jump in difficulty from Alexander Savage and everything else in the game. And I think that's when it starts to get boring, you realize you might as well log off because you can't actually make any progress anyways.

It's not that FFXIV isnt' fun, it's just that the fun goes away very quickly because people are trying to turn an MMO into something it isn't. An offline game where they can play by themselves and get every item really easily.