Quote Originally Posted by SilvertearRen View Post

I don't want to be depicted as a "lone hero" in a MMO.
But the thing is, you usually never are a lone Hero in a offline RPG, in all FF titles you usually always end up with a large team of people at the end. in Tactics you have a whole clan even and the only difference between the main character and the hired guns is that they have no lines in cutscenes.

I think no one asks to start out as a hero... its is merely about being involved in the story and in FFXIV you are not involved much... you only get to hear about the story. everything is exciting in cut scenes, wars and all but once you finish your mission you will see that there is absolutely nothing going on in the world at all.

- We do not get to fight in the battles.
- We do not participate in any of the big events
- we have no storyline quests where you are asked to team up with others.

the story does not make any use of the fact that we are a large number of adventurers.
The story in fact feels like a single player game (just not as interesting and you are no hero)

The story goes against simple logic. If 95% of the population are adventurers, then why is the resistance in such small numbers despite the known fact that we all play the same quests?

Why are we not recruited in large groups?

Another thing is...
Story quests R1 - R20 IMO are rather boring and tell nothing much about what is going on.
By the time you are R50 you have only had a couple story missions, that is not much...
do your maths, how many hours did you spend getting a couple jobs to r50? How much story did you get during that time?
little!
Even if the level cap goes up to 75 anytime soon, with 50 you already advanced more than half and for that much we get much to little.