Quote Originally Posted by lezard21 View Post
On a quick search this is the one I could find which only does a comparison between SB vs ShB.

* To that chart I would add that before we used to have a questline for each job, and now we only have a questline for each role, which is a very drastic reduction.
I remember a more popular one that compared all expansions, but right now couldn't find it. Will get back to this later.

The only thing that has consistently increased through time is cutscenes, with ARR only having 3 hours of voiced cutscenes, HW having 4 hours, SB having 6 hours, and ShB having 9! hours, and EW has been announced to have even more cutscenes. Forgive me for not being part of the "FFxiv story circlejerk", but I'm paying a videogame sub to play a videogame, not watch a movie.
Would like to also add. Despite there being more voice acting in the msq of ShB. We’re missing voice acting in both the alli raids and the weapons trials(SB had both voiced alli raids and the 3 fiends questline trials were fully voiced). Quite the downgrade.