Spawning S ranks (this is a big rabbit hole).
Conducting hunt trains.
Roleplaying.
Blue Mage stuff.
Mount collecting.
Spending time at the gold saucer.
PvPing (although rare, some people are massively into this as their main content).
Eureka and Bozja
BA and DRS (I've heard some people love this so much they do it regularly for years)

Quote Originally Posted by sindriiisgaming View Post
You know other than wow I can't think of another mmo that felt like a chore. Isn't that interesting
Regardless of how they are now, many of us are probably reflecting on how they were when we played them. Maybe they have changed now! But at least many of the ones I've seen played by YouTubers look tedious and grindy still.