Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
Considering the OP's forum join date is listed as July 2011, that means he's been here since the original version of FFXIV (version 1.0), meaning his complaint is somewhat hard to swallow. Although it's fair enough if he might not have come back to the game since 1.0 and is now starting afresh, but even then, if you've been here since 1.0, it should have been pretty clear even back in 2011 that FFXIV, both 1.0 then and ARR/HW now, that this game is story-based first and requires you to play through the main story to progress to 'end-game' content.

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Fair enough. I played FFXI back in the day and jumped on FFXIV day 1, was sorely disappointed (There was 1 quest every 5 levels) and came back after HW was released. And, as I've said, many story-focused games (WoW is just as story focused as FFXIV) don't have this requirement. I'll get through it because I like the game and want to play it, but its disappointing and frustrating.