The real reason there are even subscribers in 2024

[Mercury_Grey]

you call that grind ? How innocent you are

Maybe he should try the insanity of doing relic grinds days before a new expansion or 7.x comes out. Really gets grindy when you gotta farm hundered or thousands of fates total for certain relics

[GartredZW]

Explain why you have to do hunt trains or Expert over and over again for six to seven weeks to get BiS for Ultimate then??

you cap out on weekly tomestones by doing Expert roulette four days in a week.
That's hardly a grind. It's only slow because of the time gating. And unless for some reason, your BiS is some bit of crafted gear that has to be pentamelded, you don't need hunt trains either.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

Explain why you have to do hunt trains or Expert over and over again for six to seven weeks to get BiS for Ultimate then??

Is your definition of a grind having to earn currency?

[HighlanderClone]

Breaking News - Person figures out that the big appeal of MMOs is ERPing, farming drama on Twitter, going to nightclubs to hook up, installing mods and plugins, installing ERP mods, ERPing while installing mods, ERPing with ERP mods, chatting on Discord and ERPing on Discord while AFKing in Limsa in a social environment and participating in community activities and discussion.

Ftfy

[Maltrea]

Ftfy

Did someone kick you out of their ERP session and you made this thread out of anger or something?

[HighlanderClone]

you call that grind ? How innocent you are

Yes it's a grind because it's boring and repetitive to 99.9% of homo sapiens who dislike monotonous, repetitive, and scripted tasks with virtually zero room for skill expression. Of course the 0.1% of special specimens who think KMMO grinds like MapleStory is a rite of passage for any real MMO player, instead of being an indictment of their lack of judgment and addictive personality for even participating in such a grind, may have something to say like your comment.

[Lak14]

Yes it's a grind because it's boring and repetitive to 99.9% of homo sapiens who dislike monotonous, repetitive, and scripted tasks with virtually zero room for skill expression. Of course the 0.1% of special specimens who think KMMO grinds like MapleStory is a rite of passage for any real MMO player, instead of being an indictment of their lack of judgment and addictive personality for even participating in such a grind, may have something to say like your comment.

if you can't spend 1 hour to hunt train after reset then you should stop playing mmorpg.

i dont even do hunt train and expert and somehow i still got all the BiS item i need for ultimate.

[TheRealQuah]

Let's be really honest why there are people even subscribed to FF14 in 2024:

It isn't because it's a video game, or because it's an MMO. It's not even a good RPG anymore. Go play Divinity Original Sin 1&2 or Baldur's Gate III if you actually want to play a good RPG. And if you want fun JRPG combat? FF7R has that. Story? Lol. For the first time it's actually worse than WoW's.

Let's all be honest. The reason why people are even "playing" FF14 in 2024 isn't because people are "playing" the game. It's because FF14 has the best suite of third party, ToS-violating tools that help you look your best in screenshots. Or the best in different custom poses. Or the best while they're all unequipped and you're doing gods know what down there while staring at those unequipped characters.

It's also because FF14 has the best drama. Desolance? Xeno? Arthars? Healer strike? Wuk Lamat? Need I go on? It's always a fun time to be in the FF14 community because every other day some human interest story will organically pop up that lets people get a huge whiff of what absolute human depravity looks like.

And it's also because you can find your e-girl or e-boy on some steamy Discord and get dating while sitting on each other's lap (both catgirl ofc) on the Limsa Lominsa Lower Deck Plaza bench under a tree right to the left of the marketboard. But really it's all just Discord and using FF14 to heat up your room.

Who actually subscribes to FF14 for a video game after all?

You forgot to mention the reason that you subscribe, RMT

[HighlanderClone]

He could be playing games he finds fun but here he is.

Thank you for asking, I am actually playing Shadow of the Erdtree and am finding it fun (much more than the baby-fied base game). I stick around because FF14 drama is hilarious and ERPing in FF14 is very accessible and better than any MMO out there.