Quote Originally Posted by Bright-Flower View Post
WoW's story isn't nearly so rigidly structured so they could more easily do it than FFXIV could.
WoW's story structure has nothing to do with it. Blizzard and the vast majority of the player base it seems just don't care that the player character moves from Cataclysm-era storylines where the NPCs talk about the effect of the war in Northrend to BC-era storyline or WotLK-era storyline then back to Cataclysm.

The story still has a "linear" timeline, it's the quest that breaks that timeline with the options you can do. That's why I don't want the MSQ in FFXIV to be optional even as an option. It can make people start not to care when they decide to break the story in favor of questing/game play reasons. (And it may already happen in FFXIV, but that's no reason to have more of it.)