You dont need the story.

[SturmChurro]

I don't really mind if people want to skip the story entirely. Similarly, for every other preference like following the story fully and considering a crucial part of the game. People must do what feels like the correct thing for them, each of us is an individual and each of us has different reasons for doing things that most likely differ as much as our individual characters.

However, what I really doubt is that this (rather passionate community as whole) will disparage anyone who chooses to skip the story. For each troll post about skipping the story that expresses "woe is me, you are all horrible and want to force me to watch cutscenes" there are hundreds of posts that say "you do you". There may be individuals of course that do that, but I don't believe they represent the entire community.

Having said that, the quality of a post is in its details. Someone who claims fervently "the story is XYZ" is completely different from someone who says "I found/believe that the story is XYZ". While the former is an attempt to attach universal objective value to a subjective matter, the latter rather enforces that each of us has individual preferences, likes and dislikes. I suppose that also could be the difference between a troll post that is intentionally rude and attempts to stir flames (like the OP) and an honest attempt at discussion over something like this game's story.

No.. I have prior experience. Yes, I will bring it up yet again, apparently I had an "imaginary friend", "the game wasn't for me".. When I made a serious discussion thread about ARR (prior to pruning).

"The game isn't for you", "go play WoW", etc. are constants if a player chooses to dislike the story, and be public about it.