You people have to be aware of how delusional you have to be to defend early ARR of all things, right? The fights and the experience of playing might have been way better in 2.0, but the current state of the introductory quests is really quite sad. OP isn't even that harsh and people are treating this like some kind of a troll. I for one, appreciate the honest thoughts. I don't get how you can be so harsh on someone who hasn't finished the narrative or made up his mind about the game yet. It's not like XIV started out as some master piece of literary perfection, and you all know this.