As a returning player who has been away over two years, left just after Shadowbringers dropped... I'm tempted to create an alt to re-experience the world "fresh". Currently I'm doing NG+ but it still does not feel the same... no side quests... just feels flat. For people who complain about wanting to never replay ARR MSQ, you do realize they completely streamlined it, right? I'm finding on NG+ I'm just breezing through the levels.

What has me hesitant is the fact that most worlds are FULL and even the +EXP worlds are no longer accepting new players. So I'm stuck not being able to create an alt even if I wanted to because my preferred worlds are full and the +EXP worlds are also not accepting players. I've also found that the official Lodestone world status is not even up-to-date on what worlds are or are not accepting new players... which is frustrating.

Coming from spending years playing ESO, there you cannot switch classes "jobs", you have to create a new character and level them all over again... other than your Champion Points which are account wide. I have 14 alts over there. Coming back to FFXIV, while being nice to have all jobs on one character, sometimes it's a bit too much. I have most jobs leveled to 80, and still haven't finished Stormblood... but have no interest right now in doing so. I think that's part of my problem, I enjoy leveling and MSQ... and with such high level characters and being a predominantly solo player, I worry about what happens when I get them to 90? That's what happened when I quit last time, once my favorite jobs were level 80, I lost interest in playing. So I'm thinking that creating an alt MAY be what keeps me playing FFXIV this time... as it will give me months of stuff to do.