What do you get out of XIV?

[Hycinthus]

FFXIV gave me a home. It's a horrible thing to say, but during a year where everyone's lives were so dramatically altered by COVID, FFXIV was the main constant in my life and a place of refuge, and the world may be burning, but in-game, the Chocobo music is still playing, the bikinis are still getting shorter, and Viera hairstyles discussions are still a tangled mess; truly nary a form out of place, and I am so thankful to have this game with me.