Really barebones and insipid story until you get to level 50 (which takes a lot of time), filled with a lot of filler quests up until the end. The gameplay also is extremely boring, and as someone who doesn't give a fuck about all the social aspect of the game like glamour etc, nothing in vanilla FFXIV was worth putting hundreds of hours in: the music is good, but that's the only positive thing i can say about the base game. I did like Heavensward and i know the other expansions are supposedly better (with the exception of Stormblood maybe) but while i plan on playing them, so far HS alone isn't good enough to redempt ARR.