So I haven't played this for a few weeks, and even then was just one day doing the halloween event and one day running Mastuno map when it came out. Otherwise haven't really played it seriously for almost 1.5 months now.
The time away from FFXIV has kinda let me step away from it and I look back wondering why the fuck I spent hundreds of hours of my life leveling crafting classes and hundreds of hours selling stuff on the MB daily (multiple times a day), the hundreds and hundreds of hunts for gil & tomes, and all the hours and hours spent on treasure maps (which are fun once in a while but just a waste of time on a regular basis). I mean in the end the crafting classes have been useless and the gil pretty useless. Sure I bought a house, but I'm probably gonna lose my 20 million gil house from not logging in for 45 days because who cares. Basically playing other games has made me enjoy playing many other good games in the time an MMO takes up.
Now, I don't regret my time hanging out in Eorzea, or time on the main story, the sidequests, the raids & ex bosses and learning and beating their patterns. That was all great (well some sidequests were zzz). So definitely gonna keep playing, but my 6 month sub runs out at the end of the year and I'm thinking I'll kill my 2 extra lvl.70 retainers and cancel my sub and just come back for a month every 6 months and do the new MSQ, raids, ex-bosses, sidequests over 20-50 hours.
Ideally I should try to finish Alexander Savage, Omega Savage V2-V4, and Shinryuu Ex (and MSQ 4.1) before the end of the year so I'm at least caught up in battle content. Just gotta make some time for it, because when I'm playing other stuff I feel like I don't have the time to sink into FFXIV right now.
Also never, ever, ever touching another MMO after this outside FFXIV's successor at some point where I'll probably jump in at the start but stick to the battle content.