colliding posted... yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that someone could rate xenosaga 2 or 3 having only played the first half of xenosaga 1. definitely not.
however, I do think that in FFXIV's case, a person (not me, but Axl in this case) should be able to say "look, I played all 100+ hours of terrible fetch quests and meandering of ARR, I don't care how good people say the expansions are, my experience is enough for me to rate FFXIV given how long I played it." That person couldn't rate the expansions individually, but I think it's fair to let them give a rating for "their overall experience with FFXIV."
A better example than Xenosaga might be if the beginning of Persona 4 is really slow and boring to someone, and they give a rating of 2/10 because they never got past the first real dungeon. I'm fine with this. I disagree wholeheartedly, but that's their experience so let's count the vote.
but yeah, whatever Lightning decides is fine, obviously. I'm just saying I see the logic.
I don't think you can properly rate a story if you never finished the prologue. Just say you hated the game too much to finish it. You don't need to be able to rate it.