Why are you still playing this game?

[Lilseph]

Addiction mostly. It's fun for me also, been playing this for ages. I mostly play alone, since I moved to Balmung I don't have many friends so... well, I love raids, I love housing, I love doing a bit of everything to be honest.

[Fredco191]

Not entirely sure.. It’s the only game I really play. BUT when I get a Nintendo Switch...

[Serilda]

I'm not BIS and I'm not in a progression group. I don't even play current content very much so there's quite a few encounters I've never seen, let alone cleared. The reason I play is twofold, really.

1. On a personal note, I love collecting things such as glamour, mounts, orchestrion scrolls etc. I love crafting. So I'm happy to potter around doing my own thing on nights when nobody else is around. I don't go crazy with clearing everything on day one so there's usually a decent amount of stuff to do right up until a new patch is approaching.

2. The other reason I play is friends. I'm in a tight knit group of real life friends and we run old content since you can't undersize current content and we don't have eight regular players (I don't have eight RL friends who want to play FFXIV so that's never going to change). I'd love to take it a step further and work on current content too, but since that's impossible we grab strangers to clear the mandatory stuff then go back to old content for now. When I did Cape Westwind back in 2.x at the correct level, synced, in a full party, it was a total faceroll because it's undertuned story content. When a new member joined our group and we decided to do it at minimum level with half the intended number of people, it was a fun fight with wipes and positioning and roles and strategy. Naked blind Coil runs were hilarious back in HW; none of us watched any guides so we had to figure out all of the mechanics from scratch whilst also accommodating new problems caused by our low numbers. If I'm not in early progression the first time around I honestly miss a lot of mechanics and challenges as people gear up so fast that they trivialise fights after a few months; our lowman runs make me appreciate content in a more long-lasting way.

So in other words, I don't tend to run out of content since we take things slow. Despite playing a reasonable amount. We'd have even more content if not for the weird blockade on joining anything remotely current without having the right number of people - since a lot of it would be unclearable we'd be kept busy for months!

I'm a filthy casual scrub, but I have fun. If I stop having fun I'll move on.

[Texa]

Nothing better to do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Aylis]

I really only play to spend time with friends is all, that's what games are for if you ask me, just having fun with friends. It's no secret this isn't my game of choice by far. I don't log on daily and play it 24/7 and I'm not committed to it like I am my main game. However I still like spending time with friends that do main this game and like running a dungeon or three with them a week.

[Mimilu]

Personally, I stay just for my FC and my friends in it. Like you said in the OP, the game just really isn't as compelling to me like it use to be and the dev team seem too scared (and understaffed) to try anything new since Diadem 2.0 flopped. I still raid two days a week but I really don't look forward to it, it's merely just something to do with my friends. If most of my friends jumped ship to another game, I would probably follow suit. :B

[RLofOBFL]

Doing savage and tryna do the best deeps, progging ult, playing with my friends(this alone is probably enough to play), doing my weekly Omega savage/Rabanastre, capping weekly tomes, gearing up alts, finishing levelling my last few classes. Plenty enough to last the 5-7 or so hours I play everday.

[DeaconMoore]

Hello, this isn\\'t a troll thread or anything and I know some people are gonna "come at me", but as the title says, why are you still playing this game? There\\'s absolutely no challenging content. Everything is handed out to you. Further more any challenging content is just a harder version of existing content. There\\'s nothing to strive for. Your gearing up to clear what content exactly? The next patch cycles content where crafted gear makes previous bis irrelevant? I\\'ve been playing since 2.2 but now that I\\'m not raiding anymore I don\\'t know how people are still playing. What\\'s the motivation? What are you doing that actually matters? (In a video game sense). Btw before I get the "because it\\'s fun" response. Yea I know it\\'s fun the first time, and I\\'m all for grinding to get something, but doing the same over and over again without any meaningful rewards or at least a sense of accomplishment is no bueno.

Fun is being had.

The real question though: Why are you still playing?

[MuseTraveller]

I love the 24 raids. >_>;; This roulette is now my drug.
I used to love farming the ex trials through HW, now not so much. I'm burned out on trying to grind for BiS and keeping up with the savage content. I kind of reverted to filthy casual.
So right now it's - gathering, housing and crafting. Plus screenshots and doing funny things for tumblr.

[Mocita]

Anima relic weapons. I have a mission to collect and complete them all. Since it's so much easier than the 2.x relic weapons, I'm able to get them done faster. So far, 3 Lux, 8 Sharpened, and 2 Hyperconductive left. I spend all my Red Scripts, GC Seals, and Leves(Amber-encased Vilekin) getting the sands, and all my Poetics getting the Umbrite. And getting every battle job to 70, with crafters/gatherers following after that. Oh, and to find the next best glamour for my jobs.