What keeps you playing?

[Nizzi]

and rightly so. Take a man that's been drinking water in drops, and give him a water fountain, he's bound to tell you the water fountain is better than drinking drops of water. I don't know what your gripe is with someone referencing wow, and saying how much better XIV is to the former Genre Titan, but I think that the Drop Drinkers that used to play WoW have merit describing how much better the Fountain of XIV is.

Edit: Keep in mind, yes, XIV has flaws, but it's still comparatively good.

All of the posts I've seen from you have had you bringing up WoW unprompted in threads criticizing bad aspects of this game. I don't care about "Torghast" or Blizzard or WoW, I don't play them, I never will and they're absolutely irrelevant to me and myriad number of people on these forums who do not play WoW. Please stop trying to use a game that you used to play and clearly don't like anymore as a cudgel to stifle criticisms people have towards this game. I'm happy that you were able to quit something that was clearly toxic for you, perhaps it's time to let it stop living rent free in your mind to the point where you're constantly bringing it up in the Final Fantasy XIV forums to white knight for SE.

[Vav2021]

All of the posts I've seen from you have had you bringing up WoW unprompted in threads criticizing bad aspects of this game. I don't care about "Torghast" or Blizzard or WoW, I don't play them, I never will and they're absolutely irrelevant to me and myriad number of people on these forums who do not play WoW. Please stop trying to use a game that you used to play and clearly don't like anymore as a cudgel to stifle criticisms people have towards this game. I'm happy that you were able to quit something that was clearly toxic for you, perhaps it's time to let it stop living rent free in your mind to the point where you're constantly bringing it up in the Final Fantasy XIV forums to white knight for SE.

Relax.


I am not stifling anything. As I said before, XIV has problems that need to be addressed, but to discredit the experiences of quality (or lack thereof) in order to point out that it's objectively better seems like an attempt to muffle anything good one has to say about the current game in question. I'm sorry if me bringing it up causes problems for you, but an observation in corrupt business practices, retroactive in-game censorship of content, and inadvisable merges/business partnerships is relevant to past, present, and future quality products (Especially since Sony is contemplating on buying Square Enix).

I'll say what I want, and just like the thread suggests, I'll talk about why I play this game, even if it means comparing the quality of a product to a previous one. As a customer, I have the right to do so. You're free to utilize that nifty ignore option.

[RyuDragnier]

Raid, and random friends going, "Hey, wanna go do a run of X?"

[Carin-Eri]

As said in a previous post in this thread, it's the MSQ that kept/keeps my attention.

However, there are various other aspects of the game that I think are great in comparison to a previous MMO I played (which I won't bother naming as don't want a discussion about that).

FFXIV isn't perfect, and am not saying it is. However I moved to FFXIV when the aforementioned game's anti-consumer, mobile-gaming-cash-grab mentality overwhelmed everything else. When you play a MMO that produces nothing more than sleazy gamble-boxes (sleazy because they outright refuse to comment on the odds of winning anything of value, which seem appallingly low) and £300 'bundles' at the expense of new content (one new episode, worth about 30 - 45 minutes of play time, every five months ) it's time to move on.

After playing a game that became what that one has, FFXIV has been a breath of fresh air.

[Teno]

At this point :

- a few frontlines a day, always enjoyed them and RW (now dead), even more so now;
- savage reclear when it doesn't take an hour to find tanks;
- maybe I'll get back to HoH solo on sage, maybe.

[Akimori]

To put it blankly, games that I've sunk a lot of time into are hard for me to pull away from. I also really love my character and dont wanna just abandon him until the game actually dies and him dying along with it

[Aarin]

For me, it's multiple things, but since I already did mostly everything in the game with the exception of savage/ultimate high end raids (just not my focus/interest) as of late it's just been recently the following:

- The Story:
-- Playing around with alts and doing the Story all over again
-- New Game +, revisiting past experiences with Job Storylines, side-stories etc.

- Hanging out with friends and getting into fun shenanigans together, especially on certain raids.

- The Game Music, sometimes just relaxing in areas listening to the music

- Crafting/Gathering for fun - for me its a great way to relax after work.

[AnnRam]

PVP and MSQ

Everything else sucks mostly because FFXIV it's a ""solo"" game experience.

[Anienai]

I also like to write weird messages in random FCs log book.

[anhaato]

My house
Other than that nothing