Quote Originally Posted by GeminiReed View Post
They tightened it up a hair but potential players still bounce off the 100+ hours of mandatory story before endgame (and that's only if they're skipping cutscenes). I certainly do not recommend XIV to anybody but the most hardcore story fanatics and even then I'm very explicit about the amount of story grind there is.

Story gating instances is just as bad as instance gating story and this game has both in spades.
Wow now this is a hot take. Then why is it that I know more then a handful of people who play this game and enjoy it (they have been playing for years) yet they don't really give a lick about the story?