Final Fantasy XIV doesn't actually have that good of a story

[ksuyen]

I played a lot of other Final Fantasy's and a lot of gaming sites say that FF14 has one of the best stories in the franchise so I tried it out.

There, you already have problem from the first sentence. FF14 has one of the best stories in the MMORPG franchise. There, I fixed it for you. Needless to say, the rest of your points have became irrelevant.