Others see their character as a chance to embody what they wish to be. Some treat their avatar as a chance to roleplay themselves in a fantasy setting.

As I know it is for so many others, my character was more than just the centre of the narrative of Final Fantasy XIV - they were also a chance to express myself in an exciting new world.Įveryone who plays Final Fantasy XIV has a distinctly different relationship to their Warrior of Light.

It was my player character - my Warrior of Light. This had nothing to do with those patch quests themselves, but rather, I had begun to notice and acknowledge what was keeping me hooked. I had tenuously enjoyed the A Realm Reborn storyline, but it wasn’t until after that (in that somewhat mundane stretch of patch quests before Heavensward) that it started to truly ‘click’ with me. Early on, I assumed that this feeling might eventually wane and that I would drop the game in favour of something else, and I couldn’t really figure out why I was still playing. The well-documented ‘rush’ that you get from levelling up or winning the roll on some delightful treasures dropped from a boss had already been planted within me by other games. As a migrant from other MMORPGs, it clicked for me on a gameplay level quite quickly. Like many other players of Final Fantasy XIV, I can personally attest that it took me quite some time to understand the full appeal of the game.

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