Always been a huge fan of Square Enix's games but never tried the Final Fantasy MMOs despite playing MMOs since I was a young lad. Played everything from both versions of Runescape to World of Warcraft to EVE to Lost Ark to GW2 to SWTOR.

This game is fucking good. I'm not even a fifth of the way through it expansion wise and I can tell you that. There's plot holes and shit but you have to nitpick to find them. It's not like other MMOs where they pretend to try to have a good story because they don't really want to have one at all. Other MMOs just have story for the sake of the content. You end up with parts of those stories being skipped or people groan as they go through them but not this game. It ain't just me either. People watch cutscenes in this game because they want to. Maybe I'm wrong and there's more unskippable cutscenes after the a realm reborn finale but you can skip everything else but no one does on their first time.

There's even a whole bunch of other regular side quests that don't give shit besides exp, items I might not use and gil but I've often ventured off and done them cause this game knows how to world build and tell stories.

Only just now getting into side content like beast tribes but the dailies feel gratifying. I looked up how much I'd have to do to max them out and it doesn't feel that bad compared to other game's dailies. I haven't even picked up a second job yet but the fact that I can log out and get bonus exp while taking a break is insane. Hell this game even has a lead developer that gives a shit about it. Yoshi P cried because his players weren't getting to play the game on the expansions launch supposedly. I'll take that over any blizzard dev any day lmfao.

This game is lit and you won't convince me otherwise. I can see why people praise it so much and why it's so easily recommended all the time.