Quote Originally Posted by TarynH View Post
Might as well be. People have different tastes. Some want to skip the game and do raids. Some want to ignore the story and roleplay. I want to be a super crafter, but why should any of us have to work for it? :P
Name any other MMO that blocks you from doing a new expansion's content even if you are of appropriate level if you haven't completed all of the quests in the previous expansion.

That's a badge of uniqueness that FFXIV should not wear with pride. It's a horrible slog to click through hours upon hours of cut scenes - possibly wasting XP on a class you have ZERO interest in. I would really like to make a hyur machinist, but there's no way I'm leveling some other random class to 50 just to have the "privilege" of grinding fates and dungeons on machinist 30-50. It's absurd.