Why should I be excited for Grind Parties?

[Wolfie]

If you doing the mission's and quests it very much does tell a story but I agree that to proceed with those you have to be a certain level to do those and grind party's exist but not everyone is the same it an opinion like your statement. FFXI/FFXIV are not centered on quest based story telling that gives experience it's centered on if you go and do the mission quest it gives you rewards and a dam good plot for completeing them. Again it up to the individual players out there if the like it or not could it be tweak sure it's an mmo but enjoy your grind style.

Dude, what?

Of course doing quests gives you story progression.

What I'm saying is, there's no reason quests shouldn't also give you character progression (leveling) and there's no reason why devs should be pushing a character progression model that doesn't give you story progression (grinding).