Succinct Story Line summary?

[Eidolon]

"Oh no! A primal!"
"Thank you hero of light!"
"Everything's ok now! But I hear the beast men are acting up..."
"Oh no! A primal!"

This is a repeating theme within the story.

[Ehayte]

Clearly you are not (into the story - at all). Honestly, why bother playing an RPG if you don't give two craps about the story? I won't be providing your synopsis, mostly because I haven't completed the story yet - I like to take my time. That said, I wouldn't give a synopsis anyway, I don't see why anyone should facilitate you ignoring the story line of the game. Skipping all cut-scenes and dialog up to T12 is almost a text book demonstration of willful ignorance in this context.

Then, why do you bother to play? Seriously, you're playing an RPG in a fantasy setting, it should be obvious that the language used by characters will be stylized in a way similar to the way that it is in Eorzea, it's like that in every RPG with a fantasy setting.

I'm not sure what you're talking about with regard to a watered down story line, if you expected gritty realism and more hard core action/intrigue, then you've come to the wrong kind of virtual world.

Yup, not really that into it. I play an MMO because I likee doing raid content with other people and building a character up over time. I don't want your synopsis anyways because it will probably be mean-spirited and full of right-click-thesaurus word replacements. I'm not looking for someone to tell me the story so far I was asking if anyone knew of an archive that already exists that summarizes the story.

Because some people don't play for the story of an MMO, they play for the sandbox. Even though FFXIV isn't very sand-box-y, it still provides a good amount of "independent adventuring" for someone to be satisfied paying $15 / mo.

"Oh no! A primal!"
"Thank you hero of light!"
"Everything's ok now! But I hear the beast men are acting up..."
"Oh no! A primal!"

This is a repeating theme within the story.

Yeah I inferred that, haha. I'm more looking for the political struggles and anything ishgard related so that I can have some context for the end of the 2.X storyline.

To be clear, my motivation level is not high enough to actually read the 8 paragraphs of text that come with each fetch quest to understand what is going on in the story. I did it for the PLD job quests and most of the 2.0 story from level 1-50, but I reached my breaking point at 2.1 - too much text for a game in which I spend less than 5% of my time doing anything that has to do with progressing a story.

Also, no offense to anyone that loves the story but its not that good, and I don't like most of the characters. This coming from a huge fan of video games as a story telling medium and someone for whom FFVII changed my perspective of narrative.

[Risvertasashi]

Yup, not really that into it. I play an MMO because I likee doing raid content with other people and building a character up over time.

While Kosmos992k didn't need to be so mean-spirited and close-minded about it...

Just from pure curiosity, why make this thread then? I don't think your reasons for playing are invalid or anything--different people play for different reasons and raiding/progression is just as good as playing for the story or whatever other reasons people have. But I'm curious.

EDIT: I found a better link!

...although it's quite the read: http://gamerescape.com/2015/01/19/th...reborn-part-1/
This one is more up to date than the FF wiki, but it's still a patch or 2 behind. I imagine we'll get get a bunch of 2.x summaries once it's actually finished

[Kosmos992k]

While Kosmos992k didn't need to be so mean-spirited and close-minded about it...

I'm not being mean spirited or closed minded, I simply cannot understand why anyone would play a final fantasy game and ignore the story, or expect to play without reference to the story.

[Risvertasashi]

I'm not being mean spirited or closed minded, I simply cannot understand why anyone would play a final fantasy game and ignore the story, or expect to play without reference to the story.

Pretty much the definition there. But I'll try to explain in the hope that all is not lost.

Some people play games for the game part of it. Mechanics. Being one of the highest skilled players. The prestige of getting a world or server first. Or more modestly, just the challenge. Or for social reasons: Having fun with friends (be that raiding, RPing, or who knows what else).

There are many other reasons to play that I haven't touched on, but which may lead a person to skip all story/cutscenes/etc. Some people just aren't here for it. This is not exactly uncommon. Yes, FF story tends to be a few notches above typical MMOs and all that, but it's still not going to appeal to everyone. Their reasons for playing are no less valid for it.