Why should I be excited for Grind Parties?

[odintius]

Yeah, sure, every game has a "grind". But FFXI and FFXIV are the only ones that have a naked grind where no lore or story progression is given to the player while leveling up. That's bad.

If you doing the mission's and quests it very much does tell a story but I agree that to proceed with those you have to be a certain level to do those and grind party's exist but not everyone is the same it an opinion like your statement. FFXI/FFXIV are not centered on quest based story telling that gives experience it's centered on if you go and do the mission quest it gives you rewards and a dam good plot for completeing them. Again it up to the individual players out there if the like it or not could it be tweak sure it's an mmo but enjoy your grind style.