What keeps you playing?

[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.

[Illmaeran]

I even went over to the Horde side, to find it empty. This is on WoW, a "highly" populated server, I need remind you.

That's one thing I appreciate about XIV; we have plenty of hub locations to hang out in. I'm in NA and play on a JP DC, so I'm between 11 and 13 hours behind the majority of the player base there. Yes, it's dead during my weekday primetime, but when I log on in the morning before going to work I see people all over the place. It's even busier on Saturday and Sunday; and I'm on one of the lower population servers. If I hop over to Limsa on Tonberry, that place is jumping. I can only imagine what it's like on a place like Balmung.

[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

[Corvus_V]

Hi folks. Been off the game for a while after a massive bit of burn out. I'm finding it hard to go back. I'm just curious... What keeps you playing the game? Maybe I can find a new reason to enjoy. Thanks!

other people
thats all, if i didnt have anyone to hang out with id quit and cancel my sub
when they see how little SE puts back into the game compared to their sub funding and realize its the short end of the stick theyll quit and we can all play something else

[Serenitey]

Boredom offline and lack of new mmos.

[Naoki34]

Hi folks. Been off the game for a while after a massive bit of burn out. I'm finding it hard to go back. I'm just curious... What keeps you playing the game? Maybe I can find a new reason to enjoy. Thanks!

Even if SE tries to make ARR and the following patch to HW attractive, it remains the most boring part.
You don't even have a third of the HL content for your character's gameplay.

And you don't have everything that makes MSQ cool at your level.

So at your level, you're still in the "barrage" of "anti-newbie" content despite what SE does to improve it.

It's still a pain to play at your level.

I personally find that the content from Ishgard onwards is improving. Although many swear by Heavensward, I found it relatively boring. It unfortunately becomes interesting in my opinion that from Stormblood by its improvement of the MSQ which goes largely better to Shadowbringer which gradually begins to avoid more unnecessary back and forth. And a real feeling of travel.

It's not for nothing that the "generous" free trial of FFXIV goes until the end of Heavensward. It probably hopes that those who "survive" until level 60 to hang on to their MMO.


For my part, it's the glamour, the housing, and the raid alliance.

- Housing more than anything else to keep my subscription going non stop for a maximum of 30 days.
- And the glamour in second, I am the kind of person who is able to farm during days or weeks for that, the relics for example or to make all my tomestones of the week in spam raid 24 because I find that fun, more than twenty run on the week thus.
Which makes me laugh when a guy creates a topic to complain that after 3 to 5 runs, he doesn't have his raid 24's gear for the week.

Occasionally the Ex, for the mount or the weapon skin that interests me.

[Corrupted]

Hard to say considering I took short breaks (around 40 days) and long ones (nearly a whole year) but if anything, my friends keep me grounded a bit.
Maybe my short term goals of leveling the last 3 jobs to 90, though I hardly stand playing it with the same excitement I had 2-3 years ago.

Doesn't matter, I tried to break away from FF14 to play something else or a different mmo even, but I always end up back here maybe when the game finally dies I'll stop.