Please let me skip MSQ

[Veliaire]

Story skip Will never happen in FF14. I do recommend to do story properly otherwise you will be one of those mindless gear grind drones.

While I do agree that everyone should at least try to enjoy the story, I feel that the beauty of Final Fantasy XIV is that anyone can play the way they want. If they get their enjoyment doing end game content and couldn't care less about the story, then they should do what makes them happiest. After all, they are paying to play the way they want to play.

I remember rushing through the story of 5.0 just so that I could get flying in all zones and make a ton of gil gathering and crafting. I made nearly 100m gil during the first couple months and it was great.. that's how I wanted to play at the time. This time around, I am taking my time with the story. I haven't even touched my gatherers/crafters yet.

[Packetdancer]

While I do agree that everyone should at least try to enjoy the story, I feel that the beauty of Final Fantasy XIV is that anyone can play the way they want. If they get their enjoyment doing end game content and couldn't care less about the story, then they should do what makes them happiest. After all, they are paying to play the way they want to play.

While I wince a little bit at people who skip through story -- because I am the sort who wants to suck every bit of lore-marrow out of the narrative bones of this game, metaphorically -- I also don't hold it against them.

Savor the story, enjoy it, toss theories about things back and forth? Cool! Skip the story because you just want to run content with friends? Also cool!

What drives me absolutely up the wall are the people who skip the story and then complain they don't know what's going on story-wise, or that the story makes no sense. Of course it makes no sense; you skipped like... 3/4 of a book and started reading randomly at chapter 17 out of 23, or whatever. That's the reason I wince when someone's like "I'm skipping all the story", because many folks I've seen who say that then become the ones who complain they don't know what's going on.

(Not saying OP is doing this -- in fact, it sounds very much like they aren't -- but I have definitely run into people like that.)