i play this game for the story and for some friends but thats really about it, i feel the same is too homogenize with jobs and the battle system is very weak with scripts boss fights, very linear duegons especially ones that make me fall asleep when qued at lower level ones. The music, the story is great and if FFXIV was a single player game, i would still play it. FFXIV is a theme park MMO, i log in when expansion or new job hits, i log out.

FFXI has been my MMO and ive been having so much fun in Vanadiel, granted i started a year and a half ago but it feels like an adventure than my time in xiv, plus jobs really stand out from each other, i will say that it can be fustrating ( especially fight with Siren) but it fixes all the issues i have with xiv. hopefully xiv battle system can change next expansion( especially for healers) but my faith is slim.