Three Question Survey

[Yojimzo]

Just a little curious about something, since data points are just data points. Feel free to fill it out. Or not! Up to you!

1. Are you currently satisfied with FFXIV?
2. How long have you been playing FFXIV?
3. Did you leave any other MMO in order to play FFXIV, and if so, which?

1. Sure, could be better admittedly.
2. Wanna say about 7 or 8 months, off and on.
3.Not really, just one of several I tend to cycle through at random intervals.

[Defias]

1. Yes. It gives me plenty of activities, and enough gameplay, story, features without becoming such a time sink I have to choose between it and my RL.

2. Since PS3 Early access. Took a 6 month break. Returned during Dreams of Ice patch.

3. No. I quit WOW during Cataclysm and had had my fill of MMORPGs and the communities they attract.
The game (back then...) restored my faith in humanity & MMORPGs. (We won’t talk about the present.)

[Synrin]

1. Yes
2. A month and a half
3. Yes. WoW and ESO.

[Kaelah]

1. Yes.
2. Played 1.0 for a month, quit. Then started from 2.0 Beta.
3. Not really. Played Star Wars ToR last. Aion and WoW. Though I had quit it before XIV started.

[Cojika]

1. Sort of
2. I've been playing since November 2011 I think it was.
3. I started playing FF14 a few months after I quit FF11.

[Nyu_Maimhov]

1. No
2. 8 months
3. No

[Reinha]

Was binge watching Grimm and decided to multitask. Some of the answers were quite ambiguous but I tried my best. Maybe the OP has compiled some kind of results as well? These are from the beginning and until post #186 with a total of 171 answers. The third question was ambiguous (quit another game because of FF14 or around the time and how is it related to general satisfaction?) so I counted how many reported having played wow and ff11 instead, for fun. Don't take that part very seriously.

78 yes / 65 no / 28 so-so
128 started at least 2 years ago
152 started at least a year ago

yes:
- 55 started at least 2 years ago
- 65 started at least a year ago
- (a minimum of) 24 have played wow and 12 have played FF11 (but didn't necessarily quit them for this game)

no:
- 54 started at least 2 years ago
- 60 started at least a year ago
- 13 have played wow, 11 have played FF11

so-so:
- 19 started at least 2 years ago
- 27 started at least a year ago
- 5 have played wow, 3 have played FF11

New players (less than a year):
- 13 yes, 5 no, 1 so-so
- none reported having played ff11, 7 have played wow

Some trends I noticed:
- new players seem to be more happy with the game
- self-reported wow players lean towards yes (satisfied with the game) more than the average or ff11 players. maybe they know the pain of real content drought?
- very few new people answered the survey compared to veterans, which is a sign of bias (lots of newbs in-game but not on the forums or not interested in surveys)
--> if new players didn't answer the survey but are more often happy with the game, the true yes/no ratio could lean more on yes than this survey suggests

[DragonFlyy]

1. Are you currently satisfied with FFXIV?
2. How long have you been playing FFXIV?
3. Did you leave any other MMO in order to play FFXIV, and if so, which?

1.) Yes
2.) Beta of 1.0
3.) Not really left, just cycle my MMOs. EQ2, WoW, Rift, this, SWTOR, ... others I can't think of.

[Andevom]

1. Yes, very.
2. Since Phase 3 of the beta for 2.0.
3. Left XI. Also dabbled in SWTOR and GW2, but they didn't hold my interest.