Quote Originally Posted by hiedra View Post
The people fighting OP are not adding anything productive to this thread.
This is a thread asking for people's opinion. Silencing opposing viewpoint is the opposite of productive.

the best thing that you can do for it is to be open to criticism. That's how games improve. If people hadn't complained about 1.0 we would have never gotten ARR.
Everyone should be open to criticism, that includes the OP. But do you really expect that a complaint about traveling and reading is meaningful? This game is filled with reading and traveling all throughout the MSQ for all expansions, not just ARR/early leveling experience, and the OP acknowledged that it's still true with Heavensward. And it's true for side quests as well, not just the MSQ.

How OP feels about the MSQ is completely irrelevant to whether or not they should be playing FFXIV because the story is only a small portion of the game. Acting like the MSQ is the only thing this game has to offer does a huge disservice to a game that bursting with content.
It's not that the MSQ is the only thing this game has to offer. It's that the MSQ is the gateway to many of the other things this game has to offer. So the OP simply has to manage their time and go through the MSQ at the pace they want.