Quote Originally Posted by Kozh View Post
Man, you're genuinely being dim, aren't you?

Story driven and combat focused aren't mutually exclusive. Even from the beginning of msq, you were tasked to kill mobs. You have to do trials and dungeons. All of them are PvE.

No one say ff14 is pure action combat game like soulsborne/elden ring.
Yes, I'm dimly trying to inject a quantifiable metric to get a handle on the focus of FFXIV.

I chose time. In progressing the MSQ, one spends far less time engaging in PvE than quests and the visual novel aspect of the game. This is massively magnified if one also levels crafters and gatherers in parallel to the MSQ, as is usually recommended.

I never suggested a story-driven MMO and PvE in an MMO are mutually exclusive. If you're going to throw up straw men, please don't attribute them to me.

My point is simply that claiming PvE is the focus of FFXIV is inconsistent with the time spent engaging in PvE. A subjective corollary, although one that is accepted by many, is that PvE in FFXIV is one of its weakest features. I know of nobody who decided to play FFXIV because they heard the PvE was good. It can't even compete with Tera.