Quote Originally Posted by Seif View Post
While that sounds promising in theory I'm rank 30 for the love of 12!
>_> You can get to 30 in less than a week.

That's more playtime than almost any single player MMO in it's fullness.
I'm not sure you know what an MMO is. You can get to 30 in like 15 hours of gameplay if you stick to leves only/parties (though there are no low-level parties since most of the playerbase is already 50 and there's hardly any low-level players that want to party or aren't being Pleveled).

I hope interesting content you speak of starts at level 1 and lasts to the cap in 2.0.
There is interesting content at low-mid levels, just nobody actually does them. I'm talking about the lower-level NMs and the public dungeons. Those start at ~17, which is easily doable in 2 days. So you can start doing content after 2 days of playing.

So far the amount of variety and thought required by this game is like they're assuming we can't handle even fifth of the complexity found in any other FF title including CCs and XI.
Wait for 2.0. CC was sorta overcomplex to the point of being prohibitive (at least the first one). XI scared a lot of the players away because of a lack of guidance and "complexity." If you're looking for something complex to the point of scaring a lot of players away, FFXIV isn't the MMO for you. Of course, the guidance will probably be toggled off just like the current pop-up messages, optional leve tutorial, and mouseover help text....so you can have your "complexity" if you want it.