I find it completely sad. (Questing)

[StrejdaTom]

I kinda have to side with Strejda on this one. I have done several play thrus on multiple characters and I still forget whats going on because there is sometimes a lot to keep track of

I've made the mistake of rushing through quests my first go around and not reading. Everyone else was raving about the story. So I made a second (and now third and fourth) character to re-experience the story making certain to READ all of it. Even now I rewatch the cutscenes because some of the story in this game is just too damn amazing

Fortunately there is a huge summary of FFXIV story on Gamer Escape called Lore Train, they also do some more Lore tracking even about random stuff, so it isn't that hard to keep yourself updated on the main story.
http://gamerescape.com/2013/08/21/th...e-white-raven/
http://gamerescape.com/2015/01/19/th...reborn-part-1/
http://gamerescape.com/2015/05/12/th...reborn-part-2/
http://gamerescape.com/2015/11/10/th...nsward-part-1/

But what is actually killing me, is the fact, that every tree, bridge or ruin in this game (now I am obviously exaggerating a bit) has its name and story, which is sometimes part of side-quest, NPC chat bubble or only a name of that place (and the reason for such name is sometimes revealed years later by lore team and you find out how deeply they sometimes think about completely trivial stuff).

BTW: 80 sins of Sasamo, Sil'dih etc. only prove my point, mihihi.

EDIT:

So, your pretty much saying. The "best" way to learn about the game, is not playing the game?

I don't think that this has to be a bad thing. You can find loads of lore in the game, but if you are really into that, you can get more on forums, artbooks etc.
Not that I play WoW, but people who read Warcraft books have much larger knowledge of the lore too, same goes for Guild Wars books and so on..