The real reason there are even subscribers in 2024

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Apparently people only play this game to buy gil off titan men accounts, seeing as you have so god damn many of them. I saw you botting the other day on one of them. I wonder how many people in that giant rp fc of yours also bot.

I'd ask if you have friends or a hobby, but you spend more time on these forums these days than I do so.....

[gllt]

Idling and E/RP really are the things I look at and go "that's what I'll do when I'm bored of the jobs and other core content, if nothing else keeps working out, at least I can idle and look at nice things" and then the graphic update microwave deep fried the whole game and smeared with vaseline

I literally just sub to post on a forum now
Square has defeated me

I can't even accept my existence as a Broil bot

Oh well people play Punch Out blindfolded and I've ran WAR through a dungeon on 260 ping to Japan and couldn't see a thing, maybe where there is a will there is a way

[angienessyo]

I stick around because I enjoy the game. When I don't feel like playing it, I play other things. I'm not sure why people would stick around if they weren't enjoying it, that's $15 a month that could go to something else. (Fields of Mistria is only $13 on Steam atm and it's excellent if you like stuff like Stardew)

[Benjo]

Housing plots

[BakoolJaJa]

Same as every MMO. Every noticed how all the top MMOs are ancient? It's sunk cost fallacy, nostalgia and inability to let go. I'm not even criticizing or anything, that's partially the case for me too. At least I still play new single player stuff, so I find my relationship with video gaming is still relatively healthy.

Know some people who play games like LOTRO and such, exclusively as well, who are just... stuck? There's about zero enjoyment they even get out of it. There's hardly any content they have left to do, sometimes legitimately NOTHING left to do. They know every inch of the game, too tired of criticizing legitimate issues that the devs ignore for 10s of years. Log in out of habit. Run around out of habit. Do a crappy seasonal event out of habit for a crappy reward nobody will use, out of habit. Say hi in guild chat out of habit, other people reply out of habit. Log out an hour later out of habit. Some vegetable level gaming.

Applies to all these MMOs and to many of their players. Not to all though. Nothing you can do about it either. Just make sure you're not one of those people and move on.

[Shibi]

Find some new recipes to grind out HC, the endless cobalt ingots have gotten to your head.

You were making sense, as sad as it was to say But this is the start of a slip back towards your normal habits.

[Shibi]

Housing plots

Can't have subs without 'em!

gotta cap em all.

[Stasya]

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.

Where? Just. WHERE?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Where? Just. WHERE?

He's just talking about what he does, that's all.

[Teno]

The troll is not even concealed this time.