A Storyteller’s Point of View on Final Fantasy XIV

[DPZ2]

As with too many of the quests to date, my only purpose is to kill something so the story can happen around me. I don’t have an actual impact on the story.

I think that is the biggest flaw in Final Fantasy XIV. I as a player and main character, have no agency, or even the illusion of agency in how the game will progress.

To this point in the game, you are a useful, but hardly essential, adventurer. Again, you are not the Warrior of Light. You are "that Ra'hashir guy who hangs out at the Adventurer's Guild looking for work". Every MMORPG out there starts that way in one form or another.

Also ... how many MMORPGs have you actually played? None of them provide you with any agency (or illusion thereof) when starting out. In most of them, you are not even the Main Character of the game, although you tend to hang out with the Main Character(s) a lot.