What keeps you playing?

[Vryn]

Savage, EX, PvP, Aglaia, mount farm, glam.

One class in wow and Gw2 has more variation with their talents and gear tier sets than any job in FF14, the Zones in wow, gw2 and lost ark feel like places, and FF14 feels like zones. If you are on Rp servers, there are plenty of people in WoW zones, and you can see the people RP throughout the world. Same with Guild Wars 2. Choice in MMO stories happens all the time, and even the Sylvanus questline offered more choice than anything in FF14. The Elpis storyline did not need to happen, and Metion was a pointless villain.

If you have to tell your players to leave because the company can't provide compelling long-term content, it means the company's capabilities are poor. The team has pushed further away from an MMO into a linear narrative RPG that focuses more on the single-player experience, which is incredibly disappointing and alienates MMO players who want the MMO experience. People have to wait ten years for basic revamps and 2+ yrs for basic customisation.

Content is geared to the worst players in the game with the homogenisation of healers and tanks. Furthermore, the content has been simplified massively under the guise of jank when it was basic positional, debuffs, resistance and environmental to the difference between damage types.