All Purchasable Copies of FFXIV Should Have a Level Skip / Story Skip

[Bru_Tus]

Please, I love this idea, you can choose to get an overview to the previous expansion. I get its a story game and I brought into it for that. But after the 3rd Expansion it was already stretching it. Just to get to endgame



Put some respect on ARR. This is my first mainline Final Fantasy game I've ever played. Friends tried to explain it and left me more confused then I started. This game actually broke down the lore of the elements in digestible chucks to where the dots got to organically connect. And had it own neat slow burn story. I would recommend it as a introduction to the Final Fantasy "language"

People expectations went up each expansion. At release ARR was really good, but at this point its the slow start to the "good stuff". ARR was actually cracked.

I'm not talking about ARR's story (and 2.55 is still the best story they've written). I'm talking about the player experience. For like 20 hours you just press 1 2 1 2 on like half the jobs. Much of ARR is a snoozefest when it comes to gameplay. Let's not kid ourselves and call FF14 a "story game" because it's far, FAR more than that. When people hear "story game" they think of something like Mass Effect or FF7, you know, an actual GAME. The leveling process in FF14 is NOT that lmao. It's like 95% dialogues/cutscenes and 5% actual gameplay.

Meanwhile FF14 endgame is 5% story and 95% gameplay.

How MMOs even survive is frankly beyond me. If you tried to pitch to an investor...

HEY i have this AWESOME new idea, it's called an MMO

Interesting, what is it?

SO the game is MUCH MORE story-focused than almost all genres out there, it's basically a visual novel, except it's MASSIVE so there's a lot of worldbuilding! It's like living in the world! It'll be 95% story and 5% gameplay!

OK, then what happens when they finish the story?

They then spend 43902483284 hours grinding with NO STORY!!!