Why do you play FFXIV?

[Yumi_Hibiki]

ok i bite and try to answer this seriously
there are a lot of reasons i play FFXIV, first and foremost it passes all my personal minimum requirements for an MMO i can enjoy (bold ones are the most important for me):
>I can play it with a gamepad
>Beautiful and high detail character models with a sufficient amount of customization
> all races are able to play all classes (nothing i hate more than race locked classes)
>equipment items that you can recognize by look no matter what race wears it
>you can level all classes on one character deepening your emotional bond with your in game avatar (not a must but highly missed when not present)
>highly customizable camera position (this isn't a must but but i really miss it in TERA for example, with the right setting it helps my immersion immensely)
>an UI that doesn't clutter the whole screen with buttons.

FFXIV passes all that

add to that:
>the nostalgia of the races
>the beautiful music score
>the presentation of side-quests (NPCs talk to you in sentences and not just dump a window with a wall of text on your screen)
>great animations where you can actually feel the weight of your characters steps as you run
>main scenario quests with cinematic cut-scenes including your own character with all the gear you wear it the moment
>a beautiful game world (flawed only by repeating map structures which will be fixed and improved in 2.0)
of course the final fantasy name is another reason why i am attracted to the game in the first place

at first i was as unhappy with the game as everyone else, but i couldn't just abandon it because i felt that it has so much potential to turn into something i will love for years to come, and that feeling turned out to be not too far from what actually happened since naoki yoshida took over as director and producer and i found myself enjoying the game more and more after every single patch (for me 1.18 was the patch where i really started to have a great time)
since then the game only got better and better in my opinion and the concept and plans presented for 2.0 really thrill me

i plan to play other mmos as well at the same time, TERA for example i will play too for a while (even thou it falls flat on some of my requirements) because of the combat (and because i need a Monster Hunter substitute lol)
FFXIV is my main mmo where i will invest the majority of the time i can provide for MMOS in

keep in mind all this are my own personal opinions and feeling about the game and what i prefer in mmos in gerneral