The MSQ is a solo content, with some time dongeon / primals story mode.
While you have to do quest after quest, your friends cant do anything. they are playing on their side, doing their own primal farm, omega and anything else.

You speak about a small part of time of the MSQ... we speak about the whole MSQ. large majority of time in MSQ is a solo-time...



While you have to go to SB to be close to your friends, and then finish SB to go with them on the content they are doing (eureka and others) you are alone, and yes, some rare time you say "hey buddy, i have to go to Tam tara, want to come" and your friend is probably kidn enough to go in... (and try to suicide himself due he remember how much he has skills before some lvls...)

I dont play a lot FF, doing other game for month now. during HW a friend came to FFXIV to play with me, because i didnt have anything else to do, i did wait him for each dongeon... I did wait really more than i played with him while this road... (happy to have some game for the waiting...)


The fun fact, he finished all ARR main story quest 2-3 days before the item came in cash shop (and i never said it would be this ^^') he was a little raging ^^'. And i laughed :]


FFXIV is a game which begins in max level. like wow and most today's MMORPG, far from FFXI, or EQ and other old one where leveling was a great part of the game...

FFXIV could have an interesting way to do : you buy the level thing in cash shop, you go to SB MSQ, you can unlock bahamut, alexander and others content, and leave the ARR/HW MSQ for later. Why would you do this? because you want to see those quest, discover this story, but first you want to do the same content your friends are doing...
Those quest could also be usefull to level a second job btw...