100+ old quests to access expansion content...?

[Kuwagami]

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The fact that FFXIV is an MMO doesn't negate that it is a FF first and above all.

Lore has always prevailed in FFXIV. You can see it in the PvP restricted by GC, which is horrible from a gameplay perspective (hurray for horrendous queues) but perfectly understandable from a lore ppint of view.

I can't see anything in FFXIV yet where gameplay came before the lore, apart the fact that you can play every race and genre regardless of their demographic importance in Eorzea.

(This doesn't mean some lore isn't BSing you at some point, like the fact that yugiri hides herself even if your character is already an Au Ra, but the loreofthese events is made so that this particular event dosn't matter : Yugiri hides herself not because your character and the NPCs around you during CSs might fear her, but because people in general in Eorzea aren't used to see Au Ra people wandering around).