MSQ 7.1 is boring

Not sure why it's an argument at all to say ".1 have always been boring" like this should be an expected standard for an ever growing MMO that is supposedly one of Square Enix's biggest income. Like, you'd think the point would be for them to not repeat these obvious negatives after so many expansions?

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Originally Posted by LastDream

Not sure why it's an argument at all to say ".1 have always been boring" like this should be an expected standard for an ever growing MMO that is supposedly one of Square Enix's biggest income. Like, you'd think the point would be for them to not repeat these obvious negatives after so many expansions?

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What I'm starting to realize is that 'boring' is a worthless word in this context.

.1 storylines aren't boring, they're downbeat. They have to be; you just beat the final boss and resolved the central conflict of the expansion, they've gotta start small and build up again. In many cases there isn't even an antagonist left on the board, of course .1 can't hit the ground running. But what it can do is lay down the track, make sure that there's a climax a couple patches down the line.

Personally I love a good .1 MSQ, a good one gives you a lot of questions to chew on in spaces that frequently were a bit too small for the expansion MSQ itself, and 7.1 did that extremely well. It's frequently .2 that's actually a bit of a whiff for me; there's often not enough setup or payoff for either to be interesting, and sometimes you get a situation where you can see exactly how this is going to end but they just haven't done it yet.