What gives you the incentive to play?

[SgtLunatics]

Hello everyone.

So I've been thinking about playing again and found out about the 72 hour free login offer a while ago, logged in, walked about for 5 mins, logged out. I was just instantly bored.

A few days later I feel the urge to play again, but I have no incentive to play. I just know that i'll pay the sub, login, do nothing for 5 mins and logout again. So i'm curious, what gives you guys the incentive to keep playing?

I've played from beta 4 on PS3 (now on PS4 ) and have completed the MSQ every time an update was released and just grinding out tomes isn't fun and really makes me fall asleep. I'd even go as far to say running dungeons is better than ASMR videos lol.

So guys, what gives you the incentive to play? What stops you from being bored? I'm curious and I wanna see if something you guys might do can give me the spark to keep playing.

And don't say relic quest! :P

[Odstarva]

People stop me from being bored.

I go out of my way to talk to other players that might just be passing by or idling. When I'm not doing that, I'm actually doing dungeons or gathering or something :b

[Pintsized]

I play most games for character leveling and story, I'm a 'journey not the arrival' type of player, end-game phat lewt grinds are mind-numbing to me so my incentive is to play the story, once that's done I either level alts or go do something else until more quest content arrives.

[WeekendSoja]

My raid group, in this case it's like a peer group.

I tried doing the help groups through savage floors big brother act last week and learned why I like my group so much, progression mindset lol.

So I guess what keeps me going is...

1. Pushing my character to its utmost limits.
2. Gathering with my raid group that pushes my character to be better.
3. Ripping hate from DF DPS tanks and showing them how tanking the floor is done!

[SgtLunatics]

It's kind of strange. Every time I see someone playing this on youtube or streaming it, I have this huge itch to play but as soon as i turn it on and login, it all fades away and I become uninterested.

[Frowny]

My friends and raid static keep me occupied. My interest tends to fade as a new patch is on the horizon.

[LunaSnowfield]

i gonna leave this even when I already quit the game after 2 years of playing ;

Game it's extremely boring and easy.

1)I never could stand to level up a craft job because I find it pointless in all the ways. Craft things for what? Money? why do I even need money in this game? ; Only for teleport,repair and buy the glamour things? you can' even craft armor/weapons that worth all the effort,sacrifice and time.

2) Huge maps but doesn' feel alive . Invisible walls everywhere and loading screens separating each map ( PS3 Limitations I know but i was expecting something like WOW traveling to each city without cut content or loading screens) I was really motivated with the HS expansion but once I realized that I just need to walk across a loading screen ( in the bridge on the coerthas map ) in order to get to the new city, instantly killed the hype for me

[LunaSnowfield]

3) RNG and Grind to far. Why SHOULD I need better equipment in this game? you don't need ILVL 275 for clear dungeons/raids where its the motivation? grinding the same dungeons over and over for weeks for tomes and get new and better armor? when you can perfectly finish dungeons with green poop items. Doing SAVAGE raids with the same REHASHED BOSS with different mechanics isn't original why even bother? you already defeated it in the normal way.

4) DPS/Healing isn' even rewarded. I literally dropped all my dps/healing classes just for have a TANK beause insta queues and more money/rewards, no point of playing a dps that needs to wait 15-20 minutes for a dungeon.

5) All the dungeons are the same. Just a long corridor with 3 mobs > safe zone > 3 mobs > safe zone> boss > pick worthless item that you will sell for 500 gils > 3 mobs > safe zone > 3 mobs > boss > end (Just like FFXIII)

[LunaSnowfield]

6) No sense of danger and no drama involved. You are the warrior of the light that never do anything interesting and have 0 personality in the story. I always wanted a cut-scene of my character DOING SOMETHING, instead of standing still without saying nothing only "nodding" and doing expressions.

7) No open world content, yeaaah maybe the hunts were the only thing I liked it because I could interact with people of my own server instead of go in to a menu > select dungeon> be placed by randoms that you never gonna see again, people doesn' even bother saying HI or something interesting because they only want to finish the easy dungeon in 15 minutes and leave.

8) The game have a lot of content , but all that content doesn't worth the time ( in my honest opinion don't curse me ) because its so limited/plane/bored/non-rewarding.

[Frowny]

1)I never could stand to level up a craft job because I find it pointless in all the ways. Craft things for what? Money? why do I even need money in this game? ; Only for teleport,repair and buy the glamour things? you can' even craft armor/weapons that worth all the effort,sacrifice and time.

4) DPS/Healing isn' even rewarded. I literally dropped all my dps/healing classes just for have a TANK beause insta queues and more money/rewards, no point of playing a dps that needs to wait 15-20 minutes for a dungeon.

1. You CAN craft i250 gear. Not on par with tome gear, but as you said with #3 you don't really need above that. You can also use money to buy mats you can't make.

4. Is due to population. Most rather DPS and there are a LOT more options. Healer queues are usually a little slower than tanks but not as bad as DPS. The extra rewards are mostly seals/gil, seals being for gil when you said you don't need gil? You contradicted yourself a bit there.

The rest is sound, but these 2 reasons are somewhat flawed in how you presented them.