Storytelling

[Berethos]

Take FFXI, A bad guy appears, you set out to stop them. A lot of things go down, and you happen to kill the bad guy. And there was much rejoicing.

Something tells me that the "lot of things go down" that you just kind of glossed over here would end up putting a particular given story in FFXI closer to what you see in FFXIV, just presented in a less theme-park, please follow the dotted line fashion.