How do you keep playing?

[Aerlana]

There is great part of content which wont speak to many people : treasure maps, hunt, tribal quests.
Then soon eureka, maybe they will manage, maybe this diadem 3.0 will have the same end. Deepdongeon can do some interest, for some time.

The core content (HL PvE) is quite short. If you focus mainly on this, i would say FFXIV is not your game. simply

Glamour, housing and other thing like are not made (in anygame) to be main reason to stay. It is side content, MMORPG are all about grind, and more grind, timesink here or here. Without this, no MMORPG. And the housing / glamour is kind of timesink/grind easy to add, without being "real content"