[POLL] What's in it for you?

[Cynthis]

I guess I am partly red and partly green. This is the first MMO I've played and what finally convinced me to try was that it promised to allow solo players to do almost everything which really appealed to me. Almost every review I've read about other MMOs talked about how important guilds or some equivalent was and because I refuse to start planning my life around a game I found that off-putting. To me, an activity where you have to be at a certain place at a certain time to perform pre-defined activites with a set group of people is called a job, and I alradey have one of those. The freedom promised by FF XIV to be able to do almost anything when I wanted to/managed to find the time was very appealing. At some point I will actively join a LS to do some more of the end game content but that will have to wait unitl after the server merge.

The reason I wrote all that was to specify that to me the party aspect has been irrelevant so far and was in fact almost a negative in terms of joining a game in the first place. What made it a lot of fun levelling up first my main class was that there were new main and side quests available as I did and that was very motivating. For additional classes there are the quests at L20, 30 & 36 but I have found that once I pass L36 and there is no more content to be had for that class, my motivation to level drops rapidly. The only reason I am working on levelling more DoW/DoM classes now is the prospect of the jobs in 1.21 and that I need to work on more company seals for the GC quests and it seems silly to "waste" exp by doing that with a class that is close to 50. In fact, I find the idea of using a class at all after getting it to 50 strangely un-appealing as the exp gathered from whatever I do could have benefitted another class instead of just not being acrued at all.

I do agree with Krausus that, especially for the additional classes after the first one or two I do want it to be fast since it is repetitive and there is less and less insentive along the way for each class.

I must admit that I have got a little bit carried away with the thought of getting some of the achievements as well though so that has helped. Overall, I guess the answer is that the road is much more important to me since I am not focused on the end game content yet.