What keeps you playing?

[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.

[Amenara]

The friends I have in game. If I didn't have them I would probably quit until the next major patch.

[DudeManMcCool]

I find it hard to consider House's and RP active content. I mean to each there own. But say you advertise this game to general MMo public i would find that pretty ass. Especially for the "rpg" genre. I want to find amazing loot. this game doesnt have that. Sure its shiny. But the vertical progression climb only goes so far until you quit. and that doesnt deem a game successful to have the largest amount of people playing a game. On paper sure, "we have the most subs and people online" but after you hit that highest gear, or hell even along the way, you have no where else to go besides to do boring content.

[HalinFluffyBuns]

This game is just my giant dress-up and social simulator that's why I keep playing, I have met so many wonderful people while playing this game it truly is an adventure where you find the most unexpected allies and friends.

[Anienai]

This game is just my giant dress-up and social simulator that's why I keep playing, I have met so many wonderful people while playing this game it truly is an adventure where you find the most unexpected allies and friends.

I really love your avatar and signature.

[HalinFluffyBuns]

I really love your avatar and signature.

Thank you♥ I really love your FemRoe she is very pretty

[Chie_M]

My crippling Fantasia addiction.

More seriously - because I'm not done playing. I want to get all my combat jobs to 90, I want the Triple Triad mount, I want the skyward score mount, I want to cap all my beast tribes and shared FATEs, I want to get all the relics, I want to finish all the custom deliveries...