To Yoshi-P and the Dev Team:

Can you provide the community with more information about the plans and generalized timeline on when we can expect more horizontal story line progression within the overall story of the game?

The story line has been very vertical for the last year, and personally, totally expected that and also expect it to stay that way till the 3.5 patch update (ish).

I am a player who started with FFVII and even though this is an MMO, I am still expecting, since it is FF, that the story and lore will be opened up similar to the games before it.

Please let us know more than "we are talking about" type of answer please.