Objective or Goal of FFXIV?

[PawPrince]

There is a main storyline quest, and there is line of quests for each job. New storyline quests, job quests, and leves become available as you level up. So you have to level up to open new chapters in the tale. Here's a post from the developers listing the levels at which you'll get new quests of each type. (Link in text. Scroll down to "Why is leveling classes important?")

Thanks a bunch for the tips...I must have missed all that on the site.

Right now FFXIV is exactly like the first year of FFXI (computer release only, if you didn't play then it doesn't apply to you), its got boring jobs, and the game isn't balanced and the main motivation is leveling.

I don't seem to remember it that way, but I never experienced the game at JP release since NA didn't get a release until RoZ was out. While they did change a few things around the time of NA release (like the fishing system) I thought that I had bought a very polished and complete game...which is why I was so surprised at what a train wreck FFXIV seems to be. I don't recall hearing about XI being so bad in Japan as to call for such dramatic actions as canning the game's entire chain of leadership, but I suppose I can imagine that it was a bit less polished than the game it had become by the time I bought it in the US.

In any case, it seems like they are not unwilling to completely gut this game if they have to, so I will be looking forward to improvements and will probably be sticking around at least long enough to finish the story, perhaps longer if it seems like it has improved enough.

I would also note, as far as the story goes, and at least on the English side of things, I'm seeing a ton more aberrations in spelling, grammar, and diction, and lots of stylistic inconsistencies in the writing. They're too numerous to bother submitting as bug reports or whatever, it seems to me like the editors really ought to just comb through the script better. Also what happened to the Tarutarus always speaking in alliterations and rhymes?