Story falls apart at the end...

[yoshikwalla]

Well, I sympathize with your experience, but this is NOT just an RPG...it's an MMO. You will need to group with people to do certain things.

Yes, but this is also a Final Fantasy game. Instead of focusing on creating a shared RPG experience, they've opted to throw story-telling out the window and focus on something completely different. "It's an MMO" should never be a viable excuse for bad storytelling in a Final Fantasy game.

People have been complaining about the storyline's ending for a long time now. These are people who just want to enjoy the story of a Final Fantasy game. And to people like that - Final Fantasy fans who have skipped 1.0 due to its incredibly bad press only to find 2.0 to be worse - I feel an immeasurable amount of pity.

Want to know why the development team isn't fixing it? It isn't their goal. Their goal isn't to create and refine an RPG - it's to make and refine a raiding game.

And how could they know better? Yoshi-P is the only Square Enix higher-up who has demonstrated knowledge on modern Western MMORPG design. Without him, Square Enix is to Western MMOs what pocket gophers are to advanced computronics. And thanks to 1.0's financial disaster of a launch, Square Enix is too afraid to change the game's direction. And that's completely understandable.

In other words, this isn't going to change.