Quote Originally Posted by Ferocious View Post
Last but not least, I hope you have learned that locking literally everything behind MSQ... snip
So much this. I like the idea of having something to connect everything together, when I tried WoW a couple of years ago it felt just like a bunch of dungeons and nothing else. But xiv takes this to the opposite extreme, with literally everything cockblocked by a long-ass solo story that, frankly, has no place in an MMO. The main quest should be optional, if they intend to keep the ludicrous amount of dialogue/cutscenes/solo instances (imeanreally, SOLO instances in a Massively MULTIPLAYER online game) that they currently use, IMO.

Personally I'd like to see them move away from instances entirely, having open-world dungeons, challenging bosses, treasures to find, all that good stuff without being stuffed into a duty all the time.