Quote Originally Posted by Nims View Post
I'm not confusing "lore" and "story" I use them interchangeably (which is technically incorrect) because I just simply don't care about any of it. It's all lore and story to me.

Also when did I say it is or isn't the game I want it to be? When did I make a formal complaint in this thread about XIV at all? There you go again arguing stuff that I never did.

NO, I don't like forced lore, however that was never an argument, I never asked nor suggested that, that format be changed here. The only thing that triggered me was people saying this is a story driven mmorpg as if others aren't.
...you're easly triggerd then...

As I tried to explain to you people dont deny that other MMOs have a story-drive aswell - they just want to emphasize how much of that FFXIV has due to its nature as being a Final Fantasy title aswell.

I mean - an Elder Scrolls game has a story-drive for you aswell, but the main appeal of that game is that you can just get lost in the world for hours, not care about the mainquest and just kill some dude in the end for... reasons that might have been explained to you at somepoint but you forgot because you spend 50 hours in between exploring caves. Final Fantasy on the other hand always took you by the hand, to lead you from one story-event to the next, with less to do in between or to distract you.
Yet both those games are RPGs, appealing to different tastes.
Saying FFXIV has a story-focus doesnt mean that other MMOs dont have some story aswell - it just means that FFXIV has a lot more of it that is a lot more involved.