Quote Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur View Post
Just tell your friend the truth. Playing this game (at this current state) just for the raids is not worth it. The endgame is so shallow compared to other MMOs and if he isnt invested in both the story and game itself then FFXIV isnt what hes going to like.
I mean for a new player he's got a lot of content to play through, not just the end-game raids. He's got a lot of dungeons, trials, ARs, all of it shiny new, but all of that is barred behind 100 hours of talk-quests and the occasional dungeon and solo duty. I glazed through most of ARR and it wasn't until 2.5 that I thought the story was entertaining, if I had judged the game for the story I played through ARR I would have considered FF14 generic.