You dont need the story.

[linayar]

No.. I have prior experience. Yes, I will bring it up yet again, apparently I had an "imaginary friend", "the game wasn't for me".. When I made a serious discussion thread about ARR (prior to pruning).

"The game isn't for you", "go play WoW", etc. are constants if a player chooses to dislike the story, and be public about it.

Without knowing about (or remembering if I participated in) your "serious discussion thread about ARR (prior to pruning)," I will say that choosing to not dislike the story does not mean that the game is not for you.

However, if your dislike about the story is to such an extent that you want to change the role of the story in the game, then I would rather you find some other game that would give you enough satisfaction without the story so that you would leave FFXIV's story alone.

In other words, if you can tolerate the role of the story and still enjoy the game, then good for you. Otherwise, then of course there may be more serious disagreements.