Quote Originally Posted by Vivian_Vex View Post
The story is good and yes. If someone joins a story based MMO and get upset about the story. Well they just made a terrible decision getting in to the game then.
this is incorrect. He says how they handle the story is bad. Ffxiv story is more like a visual novel with less choices and more busywork than a classic jrpg. His complaint was not that story existed, but how its incorporated.

And to be honest, a lot of that is not the way people who have been around for its release experienced it. When ARR first dropped there was more need to play the game between story missions. You had less strong sources of exp and less exp buffs. You had cross actions, and so usually tried more classes per level range. Post arr, you got the story in chunks, seperated by weeks of gameplay between the story.

there are reasons to critique how this story comes across for a new player, and its balance between non interactive scenes and gameplay.