The story is great, but it blatantly gets in the way of the rest of the game

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

Oh look the typical "this game just isn't for you" responses. Guess I can scratch that off my bingo card.

I don't care for most of XIV's story. I'm not a fan of how it presents itself, how many filler quests are shoved into it, how CSs are quite often "show a fist angrily being clenched", "pan over to MC, see her make an angry emote, then show 4 other Scions make the same emote in turn", it feels clunky and it's not my thing.

I concur. The MSQ scenes are starting to show their age and they're aging like a fine milk. I still remember that one scene at the end of a specific expansion between NPC 1 and NPC 2 not having seen each other in a long time and that absolutely stunning emote exchange.