I just realized I have a pattern. Am I alone?

[Sauteed]

I don't savage raid, I don't like gear treadmill gameplay, and don't like the simplicity of the dungeon gameplay mechanics (i.e. hit aoe buttons wee).

The things I enjoy of the game are glam, housing, music, and general freedom to pick and choose what you would like to do with your time. I hate raiding in general, but I can instead choose to log in, where an apron and host an rp event at my apartment turned beer garden and be annoyed with someone using a bot to play bard tunes for them in the corner or whatever. And this game does that better than anything else out there.

I play alts when I get bored, because I like to deco a lot, so I get an apartment with them, deco it, and farm maps to share with fc members or friends and just enjoy the few things I DO like about the game, and compared to the other crap on the mmo market space, I feel like I'm getting enjoyments vs. $ in spades. When that feeling fades, I take a break. I think that gear treadmill mentality is an illness, and the cure is just find some other element of the game to enjoy. I don't into gatcha games either, I tried PSO2, the gameplay is ok, but without dropping a lot of $ monthly, you're not getting access to the deco system, have worse inventory management issues there than here, and just highly unenjoyable crafting system compared to what we get here in XIV.

The cycle I tend to find the most annoying is seeing the rapid increase of "tools" and lying associated with tools and what they do.. then someone taking a comment out of context made by someone as a complete and total justification and vindication to continue using clearly illegal 3rd party programs... and "you're stupid stfu" if you can't accept the explanation. Seeing that spill into the forums also, is quite comical tho.

-- I also not liking that they just remove skills or whatever else that change gameplay a lot, as opposed to changing the other aspects of the game to suit. 1 example being removal of "stance dancing", another aspect of combat being directionals, homogenization of all "roles" into very samey experiences so 1 of each and you're golden. Just very boring on the overall. Part of why I only do things with friends or people that are fun to be around is there's no fun in it for me to just log in, do a roulette with people that can't be bothered to say hi in a dungeon or just say edgelord crap the whole time is that it's just boring af really.