this game was good before the story turned into marvel multiverse

[SentioftheHoukai]

Except... Dissidia kind of is canon? (insomuch as the original Dissidia is basically a loose prequel to the very first FF, despite the presence of characters from other FF games - the rest just have excuse plots to explain why you can have Cloud beat up Tidus for instance or Vaan be utterly destroyed by Shantotto with fire spells).

Really, hate it all you like, it doesn't change the fact that FFXIV references and celebrates the entire series, and that is by design, and always will (and pretty much every FF game has referenced each other anyway, FFIX and XIV just have the most references to the rest of the series out of the lot).

Dissidia is canon, but only to itself. Whatever is canon for Dissidia is not canon for XIV, else I'd expect Y'shtola and Zenos to be referencing their respective stints in Materia and Spiritus' realms far more often in the game than they do (that is to say, not at all). Eitherys is no more one of the worlds Cosmos or whichever good deity it was who mentioned that plot point any more than Midgar is one of the Source's shards or Squall is one of the Warrior of Light's Sundered Reflections.

A few years ago someone would probably say the game isn't for you then.

Story is not the make it break it for me either though. I genuinely like the gameplay and customization. I'd like more of that content. Quality though.

Bold of you to assume they don't still do that. No, "well, why don't you get off MY MMO and play something else if you hate it so much you Ascian lover you!" gets practically spouted somewhere on these forums damn well near daily.