Why do long time players play the game so differently?

[Zaniel]

I don't get it, does something fundamentally change about your gameplay once you spend a long time playing this game? These veteran players don't seem to be obsessed with the same things I and other newer players are obsessed with.

This isn't WoW, the objective is to enjoy yourself, not pucker up so hard you can shoot a golf ball 100 yards down range.

[Doc_Seraph]

Think of mmorpgs as giant chat rooms with very sophisticated avatars. Most of the fun comes with hanging out with other people. Kupo <3

[Minarisweet]

Think of mmorpgs as giant chat rooms with very sophisticated avatars. Most of the fun comes with hanging out with other people. Kupo <3

this is only true for xiv, a lot of people use mmorpgs as giant chat rooms sure but xiv manages to only excel at that and forget to make meaningful activities for people to do daily

[Vahlnir]

this is only true for xiv, a lot of people use mmorpgs as giant chat rooms sure but xiv manages to only excel at that and forget to make meaningful activities for people to do daily

Eh, I can find something to do daily just fine, and I've been here since ARR open beta. But I do feel that they've been playing it way too safe for far too long. I think the failures that were Diadem 1.0/2.0 and Verminion spooked them a bit. But that was like, 7/8 years ago so...lol This game needs more side content and open world content, plain and simple.

[Wyso_Derivative]

Well I’m new, relative to how long this game has been out, and normally lurk though this topic got me out of hiding. It does bring up a very good point: Is it truly, absolutely, terribly, unconscionably wrong to put pineapple on pizza?