Quote Originally Posted by Magis View Post

Long talk about story

Sorry got a bit ranty there.
Well the problem isn't really that there is a main story but that the questlines are isolated so it feals less like a world of interconnected stories. I mean, you do the main scenario, the hildibrand questline, the class and job storylines, the profession quests, the grand company quests and soon realise that all of those are completely separate from each other. The way I saw it in 1.0, the individual storylines were more connected. Urianger in the Hildi questline, Sisipu in main scenario, Nael van Darnus in Grand Company quests. It expanded the same story horizontally therefore gave the impression that both it and the world is bigger.

I still think ARR is a great game and it hurts to see most here think it is a piece of garbage abusing the Final Fantasy name, but there really are a lot of things that 1.0 did a lot better. Still it seems the world was not ready for 1.0-s innovations so drastic changes were necessary to make the MMO marketable. Perhaps gradually bringing back some of the old features could occur later. Untill then, enjoy all the stuff comming with 2.5