You dont need the story.

[Lauront]

He can burn on the fires of hell and never see the light of day again for all I care.

Paving the way for 7.0, where you brace the fires of Hell to fight Zenos in a new and exciting, never before seen form! Please look forward to it.

[Jojoya]

I dislike when people in this game give you so much trouble and say how they feel bad for you for skipping the story or say all these mean things.

I dislike the story because i find it incredibly boring. I mean it is a snoozefest. even shadowbringers. I skipped everything. every cutscene.

I enjoy the gameplay and MMO atmosphere. People need to stop with this "omg youre skipping story in a FF game HOW DARE YOU, im going after you and your family!!"

I enjoy the games gameplay, design, music, zones. every MMO aspect of it. I dont need the story and i am having a blast without falling asleep.

Please let people play how they want and stop insulting them for not liking the story.

It's fine not to care about the story.

But don't expect the game design to change because you don't. Final Fantasy is a story-based game franchise and story is already going to be a core component of the game design.

[Valknut]

It's fine not to care about the story.

But don't expect the game design to change because you don't. Final Fantasy is a story-based game franchise and story is already going to be a core component of the game design.

FF1 is not a story based game
FFT is incredibly story based and lets you skip all the story by button mashing.
FF14 has some of the worst characters, and some really great stuff crammed in between. Its painful to have to put up with the bad parts of this game to get to the good stuff. AKA any character from waking sands please kill them all. Like I legit thought I liked Raubahns character until I had to hold his hand for 60 quests in SB. Then he was just another baby to sit.

Lets all remember the amazing FF13 and FF15 stories that were flaming garbage as well before we tout FF being a story based franchise.

[Disappoint]

I liked Raubahns character until I had to hold his hand .

Did you at least give it back afterwards.

[MsQi]

Did you at least give it back afterwards.

Yeah, he only has one left. He'll need it!

[Shougun]

Did you at least give it back afterwards.

Don't worry, Raubahn is all right now.

[MsQi]

200 hours of content someone may find boring blocking them from access to content they may not find boring is too much. While I understand this game is story-based, it is also a themepark MMORPG. It can (and does) cater to both types of players.

However, I don't necessarily agree with pruning, or cutting of ARR story content. That's story content lost forever, bits that can give further context, etc. I'd rather they figure out a way to re-implement this stuff different than outright cut.

I agree I would rather they not touch a hair on the MSQ and make it optional.

We didn't lose much in the pruning, but it didn't really help either, and it didn't really address the real problems. It seems to be longer now that Crystal Tower is required.

[TheGrimace]

you can continue to skip the story and I will continue to judge you for skipping it

[KaijinRhada]

It's no skin off my back if people enjoy the story or is they skip it. As long as it's not hurting anyone, you do you and enjoy the game how you would like. Not like anyone would know if you watch or skip unless you bring it up anyway

[Jojoya]

FF1 is not a story based game
FFT is incredibly story based and lets you skip all the story by button mashing.
FF14 has some of the worst characters, and some really great stuff crammed in between. Its painful to have to put up with the bad parts of this game to get to the good stuff. AKA any character from waking sands please kill them all. Like I legit thought I liked Raubahns character until I had to hold his hand for 60 quests in SB. Then he was just another baby to sit.

Lets all remember the amazing FF13 and FF15 stories that were flaming garbage as well before we tout FF being a story based franchise.

I was paraphrasing what YoshiP has said in multiple interviews, including some in recent months. FF is a story based franchise and story will continue to be integral to the FFXIV game experience. That is their design decision.

Quality of story doesn't make a game any less story based.

Again, people are free not to care about story but they're still going to have to deal with it to some degree because it's a core part of the game's design.