and before somebody calls me an EW fanboy, I'm not. Just like with ShB, there was a lot of missed potential for its story that I've come to be dissapointed but also like Shb, I dont easily label it as a masterpiece nor as the worst thing ever either. Just like with previous expansions its absolutely fine with its storytelling, personally just a taaaad bit better than Shb. But thats mostly because they keep making the story consistently better with each one expansion. Ive grown to see the FFXIV narrative in the sum of its parts rather than just slices of the pie and for what it is as an MMO story, I feel like its really good.

But does it live up to its single-player narrative stories? Oh my dear me no... The game itself suffers from a lot of issues that prevent it from reaching to that point. And its not completely it's fault. Its an MMO so ofcourse the structure is gonna be stupid, but I can appreciate that it strives to keep the storytelling interesting as it goes. I'm personally interested in the 6.x patch story so far and Im excited for what 7.0 may bring, but thats as far as I'm gonna praise FFXIV's narrative as. Its just interesting, but never brilliant.