Quote Originally Posted by JudgeRAW View Post
Although I know one of the main attractions for Final Fantasy XIV is its story ...

So what do you think?
People have to rewire their brains. We sit and listen to endless complaints about nothing to do, too short, not enough value etc etc in the video game industry. Yet when there's a game with hundreds of hours of content people's first thought is they want to skip it all?

Imagine walking into a game store and seeing an RPG on the shelf that said "500 hours content" people would be "holy wth?!?!" and would buy that thing instantly thinking "man I am gonna get my dollar's worth outta this".

Would you buy an action story game like Uncharted or whatever if the end boss fight was in a room next door to the player starting spawn? What would be the point?

Just get the MMO out of one's head and think of it as CONTENT, not a barrier. If the main basis of the content (eg the story based MSQ etc) isn't your cup of tea, that is perfectly fine but that's like buying Battlefield and complaining about having to shoot people.