What keeps you playing?

[Vav2021]

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!

What keeps me playing? Well, for one, it's better than WoW. For a frame of reference of where I came from, here's a video I recorded about two months or so before I left.
https://youtu.be/YqoJOrWqCtU
It's 9 minutes long. I posted the video because nobody is going to believe me with what I am going to tell them: I was playing one of the most popular and renown MMORPGs in gaming history, on a "highly" populated server. In that video I posted, I chain-travelled to EVERY hot spot, mid-day. Ghost towns. I even went over to the Horde side, to find it empty. This is on WoW, a "highly" populated server, I need remind you.

I'm about five months into FFXIV. The community is active, and growing. It does have problems and could use some work, yes, but just about every MMO game does. This game isn't too difficult, and I like that. In addition to the gameplay dying, activision/blizzard started making very alarming business decisions -- from hiring the Leukophobic Misandrist, madeleine roux (Whom they did not comment on her hateful behavior), to actively attacking the player base. Speaking of the playerbase, you know what's worse than not hearing from the devs? How about having the game hijacked from the consumers, openly and unapologetically?


And again



I like the players. I like the atmosphere, the classes, the game doesn't have real world socio/political issues in it, I love the pets (especially the fat cat), the game just overall is a breath of fresh air compared to what I played before. I mean, for God's sake I see people arrange orchestras on a regular basis.

In short, what keeps me playing, is that it's good. To me anyway. And if you're a fellow WoW refugee, I have just one question for you....





Edit: Also, the Fat Cat is a factor on why I keep playing. It makes me smile, and brings me to a more positive attitude. It's just so adorable.

[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.