Why play a story driven game if you have no intention of watching the story in the game?
If I was to play a game for the story, it WOULD NOT be this one. The 1-50 story in FF14 is substandard at best, unbearable at worst; it's mostly padding and the characters are as flat as a board. The job stories are... okay-ish. It's an MMO story, it has no choice but to be weak because of the medium. This game shines on ambience, setting, and gameplay complexity. I'm sorry, but if this game is your idea of a story-driven experience, you should probably think about raising your standards for story in games.