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They've finally struck the balance between time-sink MMO fetch-questing and the old-school single player stories. it was really fucking stupid to make a big deal out ofĮchoing many other posters: the story ranges from terrible to excellent, but it's getting more excellent as time goes on, so I say start the game and stick with it. WoW has the same thing going on, which is why they did the 'there must always be a Lich King' thing as well as why they handled the 'Garrosh has lost his shit and you have to revolt to stop him' in a way that never cut you off from Orgrimmar. And then there's the game-specific issue where you can't do anything too drastic that would realistically cut people off from important content (ie a major city.) All this makes it so that you're encouraged to maintain the status quo (or change it, but very slowly) and not kill any major plotlines/characters. So you have to make things happen to keep people interested, but you also can't move things forward too quickly and write yourself into a corner where your overlords demand you keep the story going longer than you reasonably can. Maybe the game/series is going to be a hit and you get a dozen seasons/expansions or maybe you cut it off after two or three.

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To be fair to FFXIV, planning out the story in an MMO is like planning out the story in a TV series- you know where you're going and where you're ending up, you know a lot of what's going to happen in the middle, but you don't know the exact length of time you have between the beginning and the end. These people are in no immediate threat from the primals or the empire, don't trust you, have their own problems and don't really know much about the thing you want.

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There is the threat of another primal but this is a land distrustful of outsiders with their own issues with dragons and heretics plus they don't really know much about this airship you are looking for. Then there is the long slog in Coerthas but at least that is somewhat justified. Eventually it's revealed that all along this pointless task was a test to see if you are worthy! Which is bullshit because as you are doing this days are passing and Titan could attack. BUT now we go on an epic, mult-hour long chain where you do pointless menial tasks such as gather cheese and wine for a party at a holiday resort because you are told to.

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So they get you, the Warrior of Light (though unconfirmed at this point) to try and get into its lair and kill it, only problem is you don't know how and have to hunt down members of the guild that managed it years ago.Īll well and good fantasy RPG stuff so far, you have a problem, legendary group solved the problem, find them so you can learn how to solve problem yourself. You have this mighty god like being literally named TITAN just having been summoned by the Kobolds with the threat of unleashing him upon Limsa Lominsa, an act the Kobolds were well justified for by the way because the Limsa people broke the treaty/pact/agreement they had.

From an MMO game perspective it makes sense because you want to pad the game out for a few levels before another boss fight and you want to extend the time people are subbed by forcing them through this but in story terms it's bullshit and stupid and self destructive. Like the best example is the whole pre-Titan feast thing where you travel the world getting fucking food for a party because no one will tell you how to get into Titan's lair. I think the worst bits of the story are the bits tied to standard MMO padding quests.

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