Quote Originally Posted by myahele View Post
Lore does hinder PvP due to GC limitations.

Scholars can't explore and make use of the Crystal Tower since G'raha thinks everyone is not technologically advanced ... yet we now have Azsys Lla.

Then there's the whole glamour deal that limits what people can wear when we see plenty of npcs wearing gear that they should not be able to due to their jobs/class
To be fair, the Crystal Tower excuse leaves the door open to introduce it at a later time when we've reached that lv of tech. Overall, prefer a game with lore than without but in the case of XIV, the reason why the lore influences it so much is because we are still following this singular narrative since 1.0, you could consider this "Tale of the Scions" and until we reach the conclusion of that story we aren't going to branch away from that.

It already sounds like they have plans for 5.0 to be a part of the overarching story but after that we might end up seeing storylines that aren't part of the overall lore and can be part of it's own narrative. Which I honestly look forward to granted we might not see that for 5-6yrs. But it would be interesting to see the world past the Garlean tyranny.