Quote Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur View Post
Really though, a lot of this game's story tends to be rushed over. Or at least the world lore is lacking, especially to other MMO worlds like WoW and ESO; they have chock-full of lore. For example, remember how in Heavensward we traveled to find out the true history behind the Dragonsong War and we got that echo vision that detailed the past? Oh cool I wonder how grandiose that battle was and how the original knights disbanded and wha- oh it was just a couple dead bodies with a few of the Knights gathered around shooting the breeze...no drama. Or how about in Shadowbringers were we get to see glimpses of old kingdoms; like Nabaath Araeng, Voeburt, the Ronkan Empire? Yeah just ruins. We never get to see how those places used to be or rather we just get "told" how amazing they were.

FFXIV is more about an character driven story rather than one defined by its world. Which is why many feel parts of the story feels "lacking" because the msq itself never really dives too much into its own world and culture to give us a good background on what where dealing with. We're just being TOLD there was a civilization here, were' just been TOLD this part of the world had some interesting culture. Dont believe me? Look at how many areas of interest dont get a chance to truly shine because either they're just ruins of a bygone age or they're just gone. Doma? Its been devastated by the Empire, we never got to see their culture. Ala Mhigo? Oh yeah also conquered by the Empire, just stories of some mad king and how the Ala Mhigans had this interesting inner conflict, but they dont ever show that. Voeburt, a kingdom built by the Galdjent and Drahn? Oh its just ruins now. Ronka Empire? it supposedly had this ideal civilization that had peoples from the Viis, to the Ronsos to even the Qitari, and where they had created all sorts of weird magicks? again...ruins. Uh....Amarout...? AGAIN JUST RUINS...sorta... although there's at the very least, some bit of world lore thanks to the couple of minor quests you can do.

The only places that sorta feel flesh out are Ishgard and the 3 starting zones.
WOW lore isnt a thing, not really its just constantly shoving whatever hackneyed "cool" thing they came up with on top of the old thing they just retconned for the 1000th time. The world isnt fleshed out because it can never have any actual basis as they quite literally can't go a patch without changing fundamental aspects of what is supposed to be the setting.

Reminder they made three lore books as the definitive lore guide (there own words) and had retconned it multiple times before the second book even came out.