Let's have a round of applause for bringing grind parties front and center in FFXIV

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Sounds like MMO is the wrong genre for you....also: XI *did* do it.

Sounds like your idea of an MMO is not the genre for me.

FFXI had cutscenes and they were done wonderfully. But you didn't progress through the zones doing those quests. There were no stories to the zones, you just moved there and camped the 1 spot till you moved to the next zone.

What i am saying is give us a story on why we are there. Right now we get a cutscene and for no other purpose then to lvl our char so we can get another cutscene. There's no meaning behind it at all. Why do we need to run to lvl 50 when their could be a journey reaching every lvl.

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Sounds like your idea of an MMO is not the genre for me.

FFXI had cutscenes and they were done wonderfully. But you didn't progress through the zones doing those quests. There were no stories to the zones, you just moved there and camped the 1 spot till you moved to the next zone.

What i am saying is give us a story on why we are there. Right now we get a cutscene and for no other purpose then to lvl our char so we can get another cutscene. There's no meaning behind it at all. Why do we need to run to lvl 50 when their could be a journey reaching every lvl.

The beginning of XI's original storyline for the 3 nations had little to do with how it turned out either until you were high enough to do them or had friends high enough to do them for you. It wasn't until the R3 and R4 missions that things started to get somewhere. That's comparable to the storyline missions in XIV that you get at R26 and R30, respectively. I just finished the R30 one and can't wait to see the next one. You can't comment on the story as early in it as you are based on your Ranks in your profile. You've just seen the 'go do this and keep busy til we think you're rdy for the real deal' missions.