Square Enix blew it for some of us, but I'm still here...

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Originally Posted by Tenku

I wished they told the story better and got to the point better... it could've been a lot more exciting.

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Can't really start off exciting when your character was just forced to hide in Ishgard.

What would they do? Get into ishgard the suddenly another dragon attack? We just forced them to retreat not too long ago in the story. Or we get in ishgard and we're heralded as this amazing person in everyone's eyes and go fight dragons, ascians, find the scions, and clear our names at the start? That's boring.

A good story isn't always quick to start. First impressions are very important, and the first impression i got was good. They started off exactly how they should have, the party is exhausted and learning their way around new surroundings. They don't magically know where to go and what to do from the get-go. You need to build up to those events. The devs did it right in my opinion (not that the filler portions are very good, but it serves a purpose).

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Originally Posted by Strika23

I was thinking the same thing. I don't see them making us do all that for nothing. Be patient, I'm sure future content will have a lot to do with flying.

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But why do that and risk losing players? I keep pointing out first impressions. In today's society, people judge immediately in the opening moments. I'll find a way to love this game, but I wish I love it without having to try to love it.

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Originally Posted by File2ish

Can't really start off exciting when your character was just forced to hide in Ishgard.

A good story isn't always quick to start. First impressions are very important, and the first impression i got was good. They started off exactly how they should have, the party is exhausted and learning their way around new surroundings. They don't magically know where to go and what to do from the get-go. You need to build up to those events. The devs did it right in my opinion (not that the filler portions are very good, but it serves a purpose).

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How about instead of running errands for some randoms that will never be part of the story again, go straight into the part where his 2 companions were captured. It's the fillers that sucks.

It still doesn't make sense. we have a much bigger problem in Ul'dah, with all of our friends disappeared and what do we do? running around in foreign nation, feeding the dragons and helping people solve their little problems.

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Originally Posted by Alberel

Because you come back there later? You pass through the same region multiple times over the course of leveling 50-60. When you first run through Coerthas Western Highlands it's full of level 50-52 quests. Later on you come back and are treated to a bunch of level 56 quests that take place in the areas that can only be reached via flying.

Do you seriously mean to tell me that you created a whine thread without having actually reached 60 to form an educated opinion based on the entire experience?

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Oh no, this is a "first experience" thread! Don't you know, you can and should complain about the whole of anything after you barely scratch the surface!






Yap! :D

OP has a single job at 51 and the 3 new jobs are not even unlocked.

I can not in any seriousness take into account feedback from such little playtime.
You might consider exploring and experiencing more before making judgement about the negatives and positive.

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Originally Posted by Alberel

Do you seriously mean to tell me that you created a whine thread without having actually reached 60 to form an educated opinion based on the entire experience?

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Do you seriously mean to tell me I should force myself to play when the game is not currently enjoyable and I have friends quitting because of all the tedious senseless quests? At this point, it's faster to exp by doing these senseless quests than to grind instances.

Do you seriously mean to tell me that you replied to a whine thread with an uneducated response that said something like "form an educated opinion based on the entire experience" when the point of playing the game is to have fun? Why does anybody have to start having fun at the end of the game and not the beginning?

Even FFXI not only starts you off running errands, picking up reports from mines and fetching eggs for senators' dinners, but the NPCs even tell you that you gotta do the tedious stuff before you'll be trusted with more important things. Sort of fits with Heavensward as well since we're setting foot into a land that's had its borders closed for a considerable amount of time. You wouldn't even be there at the start were it not for your connections you made in Coerthas.

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Originally Posted by Niqote

OP has a single job at 51 and the 3 new jobs are not even unlocked.

I can not in any seriousness take into account feedback from such little playtime

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Because the main scenerio is boring so far and doing the point a to point b quests are boring. I'm having more fun reading your replies.

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Originally Posted by Wizarus

It's the fact that most aren't interesting at all. Best one so far is the one Little Brother-Big Brother dragon quest line, and that's mainly because it's directly linked to events happening in the main story. Honestly do we really care about putting something on someone's grave across the large map before unlocking flying for some random old lady?

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But that ain't part of main story and is not in line to unlock flying in Western Coerthas. Though the delivering flower to grave quest is boring but it could have been saved for later for easy xp on your other alt jobs once you unlock flying from doing the actual main quests in that area.