Quote Originally Posted by Kenarashi View Post
Firstly i haven't touched FF franchise before FFXIV. This is not a single-player game, it is an mmo. Some things can pass in single player game cannot pass in mmo and the other way around. I have played mmo's for over 20 years and i have never feel forced to buy a skip. I feel it here, so something must be not right with this game.
That is the thing i do not like the idea of playing ever class on different character. I like to create a story for all my characters. Like one is aspiring mage and the other is raging lunatic etc.
I do not hate fetch quest, as i was saying i am playing mmo's for like 20 years or so. Wow have tons of fetch quests and have never problem with them. What i have problem with is that the game forces me to do all of them to advance. This game is not an rpg if you tried a true rpg you wouldn't have said that. In rpg you can finish quest in couple of different ways. An example is solving Gecko power plant problem in Fallout 2. There are at least 4 ways to solve it. Proper rpg allows multiple quest resolution. Even in Oblivion you can finish quest more in one way.
Example in LOTRO you can start the story of moria without completing the story Angmar. In Wow you have to finish the story of expansion you are playing nowadays but it doesn't require you to finish the story from previous expansion to play current content.
Problem is... you would say that on the next MMO you play as well... each one of them has serious flaws, FFXIV is story driven other MMO's is skill based with themeparks you can play whenever see fit and other MMOs you can start different on different paths once you reach the end.
Some you lose everything if you lose your vessel and only able to get some of its value back by eg. insurance and such due to heavy contested PvP content.

Play two MMO's then if you need something different to do, but trust me no matter which game you will play, you will find stuff that may not be to your liking.