Playing an expansion as current content has been a lacklustre MMO experience

[Raven2014]

The mandatory MSQ is mostly cutscenes, a small amount of combat content, and an infinitesimally small amount of anything else (like those dumb telescope quests). Combat just happens to be the most cooperative part of the MSQ as it is currently designed, so it's what we end up talking about on 14. I'd be plenty happy to see more cooperative, non-combat stuff in the game as well, but it's really just.. not a thing.

And ?

This is Final Fantasy style story telling for like a few decades now. You may not like it, but this is what unique to FF14, this is what make its narrative more powerful then the MMO standard, and this is what make me and other love it.

I just feel you don't want a FF style game, you want a WoW clone with a FF aesthetic?