Dear Community what even holds you in this game

[nessamiku]

I started last year. To be honest? All the side content I haven't done yet, finally getting lucky on a house, my FC, glam, leveling all jobs to 100 etc. I don't know what I will do when I'm done with all of that, it scares me tbh.

This is what I think is a big problem for FFXIV. It's amazing for new players, you literally have stuff to do for hundreds and hundreds of hours. But it must SUCK for veterans that have been playing for years. Especially the long gaps without new content. WoW does nowadays a way better job with that.

[Xelanar]

I used to be here because of:
- the story
- raids
- deep dungeons
- housing
- roleplay
- fun busywork (tomestones, dailies etc.)


Now I'm here because of:
- housing

Besides roleplay, everything else is too repetitive for me to enjoy it anymore, dull, a downgrade of what I used to like, or I'm already finished.

As soon as WoW releases its housing system chances of me switching are pretty high.

At this point my subscription is me paying housing rent, because I'm waiting for the huge housing update we were promised this expansion.

[CuteBucket]

-Raiding
-Friends, socializing
-*******
-Used to also be for the story, but...yeah...

[Doomed_Raven]

The 9 books for this WHM zodiac relic weapon.

It's holding me to this game, just it's by the scruff of my neck.

[DynnDiablos]

No idea at this point to be frank.

[NorthernLadMSP]

The only thing I do anymore is Onsal and Seal Rock. I pretty much skip everything else because it's not fun anymore and I just don't care. Then I stupidly get a glimmer of hope on new content days like today, and I log in ready to try the new Occult Crescent to try and work on a relic. 8+ hours of mind-numbingly boring Fate grinding for not one single Demiatma. And then I am reminded why I only do a few nights of Frontlines a week, because everything else in the game is tedious, unfun bullshit.

[LilithGardenia]

Honest Question not a Bait post.

I recently had to admit that the potential I saw in the game when I first started to play did not deliver in the later expansions of this game, Side Quests stayed as low effort as they started Dungeons are a linear corridor of pull all and kill it and any interesting Boss gimicks we had in the past were phased out of the game so that only DDR Remains.

The only thing that keeped me in the Game was the story making FF 14 for my basicly a Visual Novel interupted by medicore to bad gameplay.
So when Dawntrail drove the story against the wall my biggest draw to the game endet.

The other think I enjoyed was Jobidentity. I loved leveling them all learning the to play them all and then seeing them all getting more and more Braindead. Yoshida acknowledged the communeties worry about the Homoginazation and sayed it would be adressed... only for 7.2 to drop and proving... the Devs do not give a fuck about Jobs and see High end Raiding as the be all and end all of this game, and I coulden´t care less for it.

In the last view weeks I read a lot of Discords and Forum posts and... Many agree... DT was a shit show of story, Jobs dummer then ever and the majorety of the people I saw do not care for Extream, Savage and Ultimates and lament that jobs get cut down to fit this kind of content. Space Exploration is a shit show on an embaresing scale as it seems, which leaves me with this question to the community...

what even holds you in the game? Because my honest answer there is nothing left for me and I am really interested to hear what other people still see in this game.

I’ll give you my honest and deepest answer.I love the fantasy world and everything in it even though it gets destroyed in story as of Dawntrail(might get changed later on) but I love a fantasy world like that and its the only mmo that has it or at least it’s the only one that made it well

[Iyrnthota]

I like playing it.
I have fun when I press buttons fighting cool looking enemies. I get excited when I finally catch that fish I've been after. I like talking to my friends.
Sometimes, I might not play it for a month or more, maybe a new game came out or I just feel like playing something else, but then I feel like playing again, so I do, and have fun.

[AristocraticCorgi]

It used to be the MSQ for me.

This time the MSQ is hot garbage, so I don't have that anymore.

Got into CC for three seasons and reached Crystal.

As of today, there is nothing in the game that I find compelling enough to keep me playing.

I cancelled my subscription today.

I will return once I notice things have improved.