Gamerant lists MMORPG's with best stories, FFXIV #6, WoW #1, uhh

[frostmagemari]

wow bad
ffxiv good

I mean, that's basically how the majority of the forum posters think. Even the best thing that WoW does is garbage, and the worst thing that XIV does is pristine art.

As for the actual content of the thread.. there's nothing wrong with WoW's story and it tells it well enough but the game knows what it is and plays to those strengths; is it great storytelling? No, but keeps pace well enough and doesn't really have you languish in limbo because it doesn't want to move the stories along.
XIV is usually fine too, but i'd never say that it has good storytelling; more than anything it has very predictable story telling and the story is usually saved by a stand-out character we end up interacting with (And people rally behind that character when they end up explaining why the story was good). Frankly, without Emet livening up shadowbringers every little bit, i would have been bored to tears of the story because i know how SQEX tells their stories and it hit all the story beats i knew it would.