Forced to Raid?

[Ameela]

Purely for the story in my case. This is the only thing i took into consideration before starting the game.
Not the gameplay, not the mechanics or endgame content and not the multiplayer aspect.

I just wanted to play through one of the only two mainline FF i didn't play yet.
Lots of people in the Final Fantasy community were recommending FFXIV and saying it has one of the best FF story. That was enough of an incentive to start.

Yeah the story is definitely a big draw, though if I wasn't into the game itself I don't know how I'd feel about its seemingly endless nature. Not even Endwalker had the grace of letting me leave without telling me there's actually more stuff to do!

so no then

I'd argue that if the main thing you're getting out of the multiplayer is simply the knowledge that the characters around you who you never address and who never address you are actually real people behind the screen then that's not really worth all the concessions that XIV has to make in the gameplay, level design and even the story in order to implement said multiplayer component.