I agree. The entire game is one big grind, and unlike other games, which disguise grinds with story quests and etc, this game does not and gives you metal plaques and say "go grind, but you get some better XP/SP/Gil for doing it this way!"

It's almost sickening. I could bear the game if it wasn't all grinding with no storyline content...I mean the quest spacing is a bit ridiculous >_> You get 4 or 5 from R1 to R16 or R18 or something, and then no quests again until R36....

EDIT: And about sidequests, most of them are ridiculously simple that have no thought into them or say the same thing as 70% of the other sidequests (SURE ARE A LOT OF GARLEANS EVERYWHERE that you never see).