The new player experience and how FFXIV fails as an MMO.

[Arohk]

In other mmos you can play the msq together?

yes.
depends on how much focus they put on the story or what type of quests they contain, mainly in WoW playing and leveling together is also encouraged.
Most quests contain kill xx- amount of enemies, which doesnt even exists in FFXIV

[KageTokage]

yes.
depends on how much focus they put on the story or what type of quests they contain, mainly in WoW playing and leveling together is also encouraged.
Most quests contain kill xx- amount of enemies, which doesnt even exists in FFXIV

I did always find it kind of weird that the hunt logs/bills are basically the only thing that makes you interact with the random overworld enemies for the most part as an average quest typically just makes you go to a designated location that will automatically spawn the things you need to kill for the quest.

ARR is the only part of the game I can recall that fairly regularly made you have to fight said enemies in normal quests.

[Kandraxx]

yes.
depends on how much focus they put on the story or what type of quests they contain, mainly in WoW playing and leveling together is also encouraged.
Most quests contain kill xx- amount of enemies, which doesnt even exists in FFXIV

The Defias questline from Vanilla WoW in itself is better story, storytelling and pacing than FF14 MSQ from start to end. And that's like 0.1% of the game.

[Chelsei]

The Defias questline from Vanilla WoW in itself is better story, storytelling and pacing than FF14 MSQ from start to end. And that's like 0.1% of the game.

If you like bad story sure. I take FFXIV MSQ any time over that stupid questline and don't even make me tell what i think about the following of it at Cataclysm.

[Chasingstars]

The Defias questline from Vanilla WoW in itself is better story, storytelling and pacing than FF14 MSQ from start to end. And that's like 0.1% of the game.

The defias storyline is more a zone questline that is also multimedia, such as with comics, which people do criticize blizzard for when it comes to important story moments that are not within the game itself.