The funny thing with this is...

I often actually see that the comparison is with MMOs.. But honestly with the way FFXIV runs its content pipeline for long-form, and with how anti-MMO some of the features are in FFXIV... You get just as about as good an MMO experience playing some traditional open-world single player games or general multiplayer games.

With XIV currently I feel like I am comparing it more to general gaming than what I am comparing it against MMOs specifically... Because the MMO-factor just doesn't feel good right now, and I don't think Shade's Triangle will fix that.