What keeps you playing ?

[AskaRay]

I just like Eorzea. I like the story overall, even if I disagree with certain actions...but whatever. Sometimes I wander around and take screen shots of the maps. I spent an hour last night doing that.
I like to gather too, it's (sometimes) not too stressful...sitting away and hacking at a rock is a good way to wind down.
I also like to play Final Fantasy Dress Up Simulator...haha. Gotta always look good. Always.
I also like doing my relic. Why? Even if I don't savage raid at all? Well...I like to know where it's going. My Yoichi Bow Zeta was absolutely gorgeous (I think) and I'm really interested in the story for the anima spirit. I want to see what happens, so I don't mind grinding hours away to find out. It's no different to me than grinding out those 10+ levels in a SMT game between the last area and the final area because someone thought it was funny to have all the new monsters oneshot you...anYWAY I'm getting off topic.

I still feel like the game is worth my sub. Once I feel otherwise, I'll stop playing and paying for it. There's a lot the game could fix, but hopefully it's just at the beginning and the game will continue on~
If you feel that it's not worth paying for and playing anymore, there's nothing wrong with that.

[Palourde]

Yeah, a friend of mine also likes to gather while chatting with me on the chat party. He has fun doing some RP stuff and gathering, that's all he does.

But in my case, i don't think i wanna leave because i want to live the first awesome MMO experience i found since the slow death of WOW these previous years..... It would be sad, i think :/

[Nayout]

If you feel that it's not worth paying for and playing anymore, there's nothing wrong with that.

That answers your question, you do not have to feel obliged to play something you no longer fun, the problem is that you're playing an MMO alone.