Don't let all the people saying it's "not for you" scare you off. This game IS extremely slow in the beginning, even by MMO standards. I've replayed the story on four characters and it absolutely has the most "busy questing" of any MMO I've ever played with so little meaningful content inbetween. It could be improved by introducing more interesting mechanics to the solo content and variation in goals besides "go to A, pick up X, go to B, return to A", but SE is a JP company that is pretty set in their formula.

The game gets much better from a gameplay perspective once you start to hit Stormblood content and catch up to the more recent dungeons.