FFXIV shows what's wrong with MMOs (Not what you think)

[Skivvy]

No, you are just looking for a fight.

No one is picking a fight. You started the conversation saying:

If someone comes to a game, and hates some core aspect of it (eg the story, the gameplay or the art style, the fact that it requires multiplayer interaction, all of which I've seen on this forum) What exactly is the point of playing it?

That's rather narrow-sighted, and it got called out. Your latest comment is stating:

Like, if you don't like the game, quit it. Period. You would not be here if it does not minimally appeal to you to spend time on it.

This is much more reasonable and I think most people would agree with it. I personally hate XIV's story, and skip almost all of it. However, I'm still around as I find other things enjoyable. That's the joy of an MMO. It's designed to appeal to many different people with a variety of tastes.

[KisaiTenshi]

This is much more reasonable and I think most people would agree with it. I personally hate XIV's story, and skip almost all of it. However, I'm still around as I find other things enjoyable. That's the joy of an MMO. It's designed to appeal to many different people with a variety of tastes.

That's fine, you don't have to like all of the game, if you are still having fun. Some people here complain non-stop about trivial things that make it not-WoW, or not-someothergame.

I actually rather enjoyed the storyline, what I don't like is the game's internal economy. Let's see, either I can spend all day grinding out tomes for the "almost good" gear, or I can spend as much time playing the raids, for equivalent gear, or I can spend a butt load of time crafting to produce gear that doesn't come close to the tomes/raid gear. Likewise, when they added the cracked clusters to the roulette's, now there's no point in doing anything to produce materia, the market is drowned in V and VI materia.

I'm still waiting for SE to produce a roulette for Coil/Alexander/Omega. Once that content is stale, nobody does it at all, as there's no reward they can use.