Succinct Story Line summary?

[Kosmos992k]

I skip cut-scenes and dialogue because they're absolute garbage. Everybody talks like either Shakespeare or a pirate in a long, flowery style that I instantly tired of the day I bought the game. On top of that, none of it sounds at all natural. I have more to do with my day than read dialogue.

Even if I didn't skip the cut-scenes, the story is so watered down with pointless busy work that it would be very hard to provide any kind of summary that would be both coherent and succinct.

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.