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.