Quote Originally Posted by theundeadhero View Post
You could spend a month in FFXIV leveling up all your skill jobs. Or getting better gear. Or exploring new dungeons. Then do something completely different the next month. You pay to continue to do new things.
In Del's defense, these things can totally seems like empty padding and not so much gaming to a lot of people. Lord knows that FFXI turned into more of a job itself at a times rather than a game and even WoW certainly had we realized just what sort of treadmill I was on chasing a carrot. In fact, WoW ultimately ruined a lot of games for me by making look behind the curtain and realize that many games (SP included) were the types that were just Skinner boxes that tap into my brain's compulsion to check things off of lists and sometimes I'd just have to step back and say, "WTF am I doing?"

Of course, so long as it's not destroying my life, plug my ass into the matrix and let me pretend it's a delicious steak dinner. I'll try to suspend my disbelief about the fact that I'm spending hours earning 1s and 0s that will have no bearing on my life in anyway.