I’ll have to agree, I enjoyed just about every single FF game even X-2, but the story in 14 was pretty standard for FF. Nothing about it was so mindblowing or even original, they just borrowed a bit from all their other FF games.
It can be boiled down to NPC sends you to guy 1, guy 1 can’t help you but knows a guy 2 who can, guy 2 will help you but needs something from guy 3, guy 3 lost the item but knows where it is, guy 3 sends you to a purple goop ring and you fight 1-3 mobs, you click a sparkle on the ground and go back to guy 3, guy 3 does the thing and sends you back to guy 2, guy 2 says some stuff and you go back to guy 1. Literally the entire FF14: ARR story.
Tell me you have never played without telling me you never played.
They have SOOOO much. I mean miles over WoW. You have trades that actually matter, you have all the side stories and extra raids and such that are not part of msq. Even a sightseeing book, I mean, things the devs want you to see, instead of grounding you for a year…
Heck the thing people have whined about for years here, even doing old raids is relevant! You get tokens for current gear.
Imagine being so bitter about another game being successful and loved by the MMO community, while WoW is trashed from all sides, that you have to spend over 200 posts trying to convince everyone how bad this game is, lmao.