more options for those of us not lost without the main story please

[Toranja]

Again, are you serious?

[Reiterpallasch]

Go back to WoW.

The game with so much lore that it rivals most final fantasy games combined?

I don't think anyone that actually plays WoW uses the "gu beck 2 wOw" line, as they would know better.

[Sinax]

just forget the whole thing, these forums aren't worth anything and none of you are a community, you are all a bunch of babies who think any opinion that doesnt agree with your own must be opposed nomatter what.

And you sound like a child who can't take opposing opinions.

[Darexius]

I didn't even get the opportunity to offer a lending ear and an honest opinion

[Flionheart]

Final Fantasy has always been story driven. Go back to WoW.

But Warcraft is also story driven...

[Borfin]

I could've done without having to prove myself through 9001 fetch quests to every faction I encountered, but that aside I actually enjoyed the story.

That and the eloquence. Does every damn NPC need to give me his/her entire life story? I -did- feel disconnected from all of the Scions not named Y'shtola and even she was kind of uninteresting.

But Warcraft is also story driven...

Ahahaha no, nononononono. Warcraft is story driven.

WoW is a loosely based Warcraft fanfiction that is terribly written. Its saving grace is its amazing gameplay and their lightning fast content releases though.

[Jubez187]

I like the main story, but I did read the 1.0 story on the wiki and I feel like there were a lot more plot points. There's also an incredible amount of Lore in this game which is nice. There's like 5 umbral eras that we know nothing about still o.O and like everyone said, just treat the main story like sidequests (skip the cutscenes) if you don't like it.

[Yukiko]

What I miss a bit is the connection between different Storylines, even Sidestory should have some connection to the main one.
That makes it more like a "oh, its an evil masterplan" or you get the feeling "the world is at stake".
Compared to 1.x we are now the heroes, that is good, but now our "guides" have become seriously "dump" and "weak"... I expect a bit more from Y'shtola and the others.

Currently it feels like there is one cut after another and seriously, to be forced to level up just to continue to deliver stuff when it is an emergency... seriously?
The cutscenes are awesome, even some Storyquests are... but why couldnt they continue that and used fillers instead? Comon, Yoshi-P said they have a Team working on it - is that, what we have really the best you can do?

[HaplessHermit]

I love FFXIV but the story and its pacing are a wreck. Too many pointless fluff missions, too repetitive. Go to a place, earn their trust (this takes a ton of missions where you do nothing but chores and play fetch), something bad happens, fight guy, boom. Repeat this a bunch of times and if you've been a good boy/girl this year, Santa Claus may just gift you with a dungeon in between!

As bad as FFXI was in some aspects, the stories were done so much better, excluding the mini-addons.

[Felis]

what I asked for was side quests to allow us access to DF dungeons rather than main story quests. it was a request and nothing more. this will be the last thread I make in general discussion since the majority seem to think my ideas suck anyway

But we have this already

Halitali, Cutters Cry, Sunken Temple, Wanderers Palace, Dzemael Darkhold, Aurun Vale. All these dungeons are not in the mainstory and you get access with sidequests or GC mission.