What are the things you really enjoy about the game?

[Kolsykol]

FFXIV is one of the few current games that appeals to me in terms of genre, production values, and aesthetics. I don't think FF14 is particularly great, but the rest of the gaming landscape is so utterly barren, FF14 is all I've got. At this point it's either playing old games, or doing something else besides playing games.

I have this issue too, I feel like most games nowadays are completely soulless.
Gaming has just become too corporatized and it feels like they're made by people who aren't really passionate about gaming but just got a degree and treat it solely like a job and nothing more.
As well as marketing departments sticking their nose into things trying to maximize profits.
Especially in AAA, games are basically made to not directly appeal to anyone.
But the blandness also makes them turn few people away too.