Problem: Achievements

[Elexia]

My beef with Achievements in FFXIV is that you had to go all over the world to talk to NPC to unlock achievement categories.

Its one of those "What were they thinking?" type of deals. It's just really convoluted and no other video game would make you do that.

This is perfectly fine, the issue is with XIV's layout. If it was more XI layout it would make a lot more sense. XIV's areas are too big with very little in it, so going out of the way to a hamlet for example made no sense (prior to defense.)