not to be mean but not every ffxi quest had a massive story or well any story to it. Like the repeat quests for rabbit hides or bat wings. Byrids quests didn't have much story either. Only one that had a nice story was the star onion brigade. But the reason for that was it was linked to windursts story line. (the joker was linked with the hero who was the first summoner to try and control fenrir only to have his mental psyce broken which killed him, rivival of the joker help revive him in a sence)

I think you guys dissapointed with the side quests didn't do a ton of ffxi quests. ffxi had tons of genaric quests. Some repeatable, some not. Due to not getting parties alot i did mostly ffxi quests. I think people also didn't read what the quest npc said due to there wasn't a CS (not that 1 was actually needed) I saw a side quest on youtube and the npc talk a good bit. Not every quest needs to have massive story or cs.