Quote Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk View Post
Not that I ever want to come across as defending Blizzard in any way, shape, or form, but that's not a fair comparison. WoW is the same world as all of its supplementary materials, while other FF games are not one world. It's like comparing Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit to Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons.
And yet to understand the Warcraft world and its storytelling, you need to read various novels, comic books, story articles, art books, even playing older games to have a more complete picture of its world. The WoW playerbase has bemoaned the extra material after WoW's release multiple times as you would have key plot points that are central to it but are not included in the game itself.

This is what largely separates FF14 from WoW. 14 is always a story first, mmo second. Meanwhile WoW has always been an mmo first, story second.

You want caught up with whatever events are leading to a new expansion with WoW? Go buy a novel or pdf.
You want caught up with whatever events are leading to a new expansion with FF14? You play the game.