Originally Posted by
Katchii
The other part of this whole thing is that all of this discussion is pointless IMO for two reasons. 1) This isn't the official forums and FFXIV is based out of Japan, so It's not impossible that whatever is being discussed here will ever be seen by a developer, so all this trying to convince other random players that have no power to change anything anyway is meaningless and 2) The developers have already doubled down on the story being mandatory, and Square-Enix in regards to FFXI and now FFXIV have never really been very open to changing their games based on player feedback. Not saying they've never done it, but any changes they've made have been small or as a result of them looking into what players say and testing it out and gathering data about it first before doing anything, and it's never been in regards to an entire game system that's in place and I doubt they'll start now.