Quote Originally Posted by Shug View Post
I have a level 60 monk and am only on the level 54 story in HW. No job quests have been gated for me by the MSQ. Most of the people are on your case cause we started when the game was released, and it wasn't as easy then as it is now, so we can't relate to how you say ARR was not gated. But this isn't WOW, it's Final Fantasy, and as everyone who knows FF since the 80's, it is a story focused game and is never going to change no matter how many people want it to.
Um... the first Final Fantasy isn't story very focused. You had a goal, sure, but the story kinda took a back seat.
FFXI was also pretty story heavy, but it still didn't gate players out of the starter expansion zones. You needed to progress through the story to enter the harder/end-game areas, but that was just about it. Why can't FFXIV do what FFXI did in that regard?