What about this game keeps you logging in even if you're not totally happy with it?

[Magis]

To be honest, I haven't logged in a month.

[Jamein]

Nothing really out right now, the MMO market is stale. WoW is not fun for me anymore and Wildstar was a failure.
As soon as something half decent comes out I'll head to that, FF is just a filler now, the game doesn't have much to do in terms of progression.

Capping eso's by wednesday/thursday then not logging in unless it's to raid the same 4 savage raids. Can't say I care much for golden saucer or things of that nature. Relic will at least give me something to do.

[Kio]

I love games where you can slowly tick off a list of goals. So I usually wake up in the morning and feel energized to accomplish something. I'll get that achievement I'm close to. I'll level this job to 60. I'll get that item I might need. I'll max out these tokens in case I need them for the future. And so forth. I'll log on then instantly remember what a pain it is to do most of these things. Immediately I'll become bored or distracted and end up logged in but not actually at the pc the rest of the day. I log on every day but my total daily playtime is probably 15 minutes at max, maybe 20 if I bothered to do expert roulette with my friends.

I don't think it's the game design completely to blame, I think it has a lot of really respectable work has gone into it. But I'm the type of person whom doesn't like the be challenged, and rather just get something for the time I put into it without it being overly redundant. For instance, I used to like gathering because I could walk up to the node which is always there and get the thing which it always dispenses. I don't gather anymore because the red script system is complicated and time and risk based. So I don't really play anymore since the gameplay shifted into something not appealing to me personally.

What keeps me subscribed then? Mostly because my husband and friends "play" although they mostly just do the same thing I do. Log on hoping to accomplish something but don't feel motivated to do anything more than stand around while they're really browsing Reddit or playing another game. The story telling has immensely improved in 3.0 over the previous iterations so I played quite heavily to experience the expansion story while it lasted and I guess the rest of it is FF nostalgia. It's exciting and fun to see things like a Gilgamesh battle thrown in with the original theme song. I was really disappointed when they created Ravana because it means they missed an opportunity to interject more classic things like The Magus Sisters.

I think I would be more interested and invested in the game if they brought back the player surveys. I don't feel like they are listening to or consider the interests of other markets outside of Japan again. It gives me bad flashbacks to how customers were treated back in FF11 days and is another thing on my pile of reasons why I could easily unsubscribe.

[Craiger]

This whole depressing attitude around here will change when 3.1 comes out...

The game have followed similar formula for some time now, and people didn't complain before (not nearly as many at least)... 3.0 just doesn't feature a lot of the content that was in 2.X.

The early parts of 2.0 was exactly the same as now... People where whining, and while it was for a good reason, it kinda stopped once more content came out with patches. The same thing will probably happen now. 3.1 brings us Void Ark, more dungeons, new primal, Relic quests, airship exploration etc. The game is gonna go back more to how it was before, and it will get even better with 3.2.

I'm not saying SE did a good job with 3.0, or that their formula is perfect (or even good), but a lot of players are overreacting I feel.

When 3.1 comes out, there will be more to do than we have ever had before in the game, and I doubt everyone just got bored of that content all of a sudden. Many have played since the release of the game, so why would it all of a sudden make everyone leave? I can understand that some people leave when the game doesn't develop over the years, but this suddenly? nah...



As for the question... Currently I'm only coming online to cap my Eso, raid and talk to friends.

Nothing really out right now, the MMO market is stale. WoW is not fun for me anymore and Wildstar was a failure.
As soon as something half decent comes out I'll head to that, FF is just a filler now, the game doesn't have much to do in terms of progression.

Capping eso's by wednesday/thursday then not logging in unless it's to raid the same 4 savage raids. Can't say I care much for golden saucer or things of that nature. Relic will at least give me something to do.

I've felt like that before too, but I've just accepted to like FFXIV for what it gives me. I don't do anything in the game that I don't like, just to keep me busy for example, and I accept that the game isn't perfect.

The reason I do that, is because the reality is... There are no half decent MMOs coming in the near future. Nobody is working on anything that will be out soon. Everquest Next doesn't look like something good IMO, and who knows when that will be out? looks like they scrapped everything they got, and are starting over.

I expect like 3 years before any decent MMO comes out.

[Twilite]

The wife, and my own personal goals.