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

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This game is based off of WoW. Yoshi P has literally said they played WoW and used it as an example how to to develop the game. You think FFXIV made the whole tome stone system attached to a daily roulette? That was WoW."

If you really want to know the influencers for this game, here's an interview from last year where he discusses that in depth. https://www.pcgamesn.com/final-fanta...-interview-wow

As for the whole tomestone system? If World of Warcraft had implemented such a system in their dungeon instances, I might give some credence to your conjectures. However, rewards that were anything like 'tomestones' in WoW have always been attached to daily quests, not dungeon roulettes. Dungeons have never been required content in WoW. So much for being a copycat game, eh?