Sometimes I think about playing another MMO, but then I think

[Nebelheim]

There isn't anything wrong with trying out other mmo's if you need a break there are plenty of fun games to try out until you decide to come back.

[Local_Custard]

I personally don't usually look into other MMOs. I have anxiety and often scrutinize my own performance and worry if I hold other people back (so if I run into a group of people who don't particularly like how I play I often have a bad time). If I were to research another MMO I would likely want to look into their community among other things. Also, ffxiv is one of the only (or maybe the only) MMOs I know of that let me be a catboy. I guess it is also that I am normally a single player game kinda guy and ffxiv mostly lets me do that- tho I'm unsure if other MMOs let you do that or not (again I haven't researched any other MMO yet). I'm unsure if I am loyal to this game or not- I do know I am attached to it by the very least and has been a hyperfixation of mine for over a year.

Anyways, there are probably other great MMOs out there. Each one is like a different flavor and ffxiv is a particular flavor. I'm sure there is one out there that could work well with you! Or maybe one that appears in the future

[Gameovers]

I can't play other mmos because FFXIV lets me not only live in a house or APT. I get to USE the beds. Like actual sleep, and it doesn't auto log me out if I want to sleep while I sleep in real life. - Until the new expansion hits and we all get logout timers.-

[NekoMataMata]

This is far too reasonable for the internet.

Is it? They're actually a part of a major problem.

When I was little I can remember spending hours and hours focused on one game because there was so much to do(Pokemon Platinum, then BW then BW2), so much to explore, even with every guide you could find online. That doesn't exist anymore, and it doesn't exist anymore because the modern video game is designed to be played once and cycled through. It's not that people have less attention spans either. It's that game developers realize they can slack off and that people will just go out and buy more games, meaning that games don't actually compete with each other for your time that much anymore.

Video games as a whole seem to be on this downward spiral, and people aren't going to realize it's their own fault until most games/series reach the point of being memed on.

tldr: You're letting big corporations give you less for you to pay them more and you're saying you enjoy it.

[Turtledeluxe]

Being able to play every job on one character is nice but being punished for doing it on multiple characters is not fine.

Devs in this game listen to some players, not all players.

This game has a sub, which is aggressive monetization, as it barely pushes out enough content to sub for months. If housing wasn't a thing I would not sub 70% of the time.

Other MMOs have cons but feel like a breath of fresh air compared to XIV in other ways.

[Nihility]

honestly for me it's just this or WoW and all the free to play ones which i find tend to just be aggressively bad about needling you constantly and have substantially more rmt crap going on in the chats and bots wrecking the economy and whatnot

Just don't want to deal with it anymore

[Rolder50]

honestly for me it's just this or WoW and all the free to play ones which i find tend to just be aggressively bad about needling you constantly and have substantially more rmt crap going on in the chats and bots wrecking the economy and whatnot

Just don't want to deal with it anymore

Bots wreck the economy in FF14 too, it's just harder to see because gil is more or less worthless

[Evergrey]

just try them out man. I also play guild wars 2. Your own character talks with voice acting. That alone makes its story more enjoyable than this game for me. And That game has no sub And no vertical progression. Thus no gear grind. Perfect secondary mmo for me.

I also tend to jump between GW2 and also ESO, Both have no sub (ESO has an optional sub if you'd like tho) so they are perfect like you said as secondary MMOs.
Easy to put to the side for some time and can log back in at any time.
And both have horizontal progression so even if I don't play for a long time I can still jump in and comfortably play newer content.

ESO also lets you glamour/transmog any armor type on any character, no class restriction.
Something I always think of when I see people asking for the same system in FFXIV.