I have a problem. Not a serious one, but it costs me time, and it used to cost me enjoyment.
The problem is that I can't stick to one game.
My name's Cael. I'm thirty-one, I work in logistics, and at any given moment I'm actively interested in at least three or four
games simultaneously. Right now, that's WoW Midnight, FFXIV, and Path of Exile 2. A month ago, it was WoW, Helldivers 2,
and I was half-watching someone stream Arc Raiders and getting curious. This is just how I game. Always has been.
The issue isn't the variety. I like variety. The issue is what happens when you try to play multiple live-service games seriously.
The Endgame Problem
Every game on my list has the same structure. There's the part you can play casually — levelling, story, early content — and
then there's the part that's actually interesting once you understand the game. Raids. High-level dungeons. Endgame crafting.
The content that people talk about in communities, that gets patched, updated and discussed.
To access that content, you have to get there first. And getting there, in most live-service games, takes a meaningful chunk
of time.
In WoW Midnight, that's levelling to 90, running the campaign, gearing up enough to get into Heroic raids or high M+ keys.
In FFXIV, it's levelling a job, getting gear for the current Savage tier, and farming gil for consumables. In Path of Exile 2,
It's clearing campaign, building currency, getting your character to a point where the actual endgame systems open up.
None of that is unenjoyable exactly. But when you're cycling between three games, doing it simultaneously is brutal.
You're never fully in the endgame of anything. You're always in the middle of the grind leading up to it.
