FOMO in FFXIV: How pervasive is it?

[Dzian]

FOMO isn't real. Stop getting so hung up on digital items.

It is kinda real. Buts it's a disguise for something else. It's not a fear of missing out. It's a fear of inadequacy or not measuring up to everyone else.

But people miss hundreds of opportunities every day. Almost every minute and always comparing themselves to others. Your friends posted on Facebook they went for lunch but you weren't invited....
Bam missed out... stupid stuff like that. I had the option of taking today off work. Said no forecast was rubbish turns out it's a lovely day and my family are living it up in the garden. Boom I missed out... so what... it's just people obsess over comparing themselves to everyone else instead of just being you.

If Bob has a shiny James can't have. James feels like he's a lesser player than Bob James feels inadequate.. it's literally just people with incredibly low self worth trying endlessly to measure up to everyone else...

People demand things for no reason other than everyone else has it.... and it's destroyed a lot of the game to be honest...

Everything hasn't it's value / significance... even something as sime as ifrits pony mou t. Used to signify you beat the extreme... now it means nothing. You probably got it from the moogle vendor...

Unsync is the worst thing they ever did. As if it never existed then even today players could go do ifrit and get that pony so it's not like it's exclusive or inaccessible.. any perceived rarity would simply be a result of player choices.. but nope instead they destroyed it.

It's not a fear of missing out. It's a fear of not measuring up or being inadequate. Because somehow that shiny someone else has makes them vastly superior to you who doesn't have it...

BS