wont ever try XI and that its not story based
It's exhausting. Another eye-rolling case of internet misinformation. Someone thinking they're an expert on FFXI because they watched a Thumper's YouTube channel who themselves heard second/third/fourth hand from a person who played an hour of XI two decades ago that it "doesn't have much of a story".
I've literally had arguments with people who firmly believe that XI shut down when XIV went into beta. You show them news articles, Wikia entries, or videos, and they just roll their eyes and say "Yeah right. Like my favorite YouTuber would lie. That must be photoshopped"
It's like taking a Flat-Earther into a hot air balloon and them thinking they've been injected with sphere-seeing serum because that's way more plausible than FlaturthTruthz-dot-com being wrong.