How do you view this game? :O

[Hazama999]

FFXIV is my "background game."

That is to say, this is the kind of game where it feels like I'll always have something to do in the event that I don't feel like playing other games. When patches drop, the game steps into to the foreground somewhat, becoming what I play most for a few weeks before receding into the background once more. At that point I only log in 2-3 times a week and it's mostly to roleplay, which is something that has "freshened" it up for me, I might add. I think I've only ever stopped playing altogether (let my sub lapse without immediate renewal) somewhere in the 2.1-to-2.3 interval. Even as I started med school back in 2016 I didn't stop playing (though my playtime was severely reduced)... I was lucky that Stormblood dropped in between year 1 and 2. Shadowbringers early access also started on the same day I took my Level 1 board exam so... that's some timing lol.

Looking back, I've had a good time with this game. I can definitely see how people can come to revisit older MMOs (such as FFXI) if they'd been playing them for years before stopping.