Brevity is the soul of wit: Request to fix the horrible writing on XIV's quests

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Originally Posted by Gathol

Also the example on the first page is silly. The first half of the text is lore setup and exposition, nearly the entire second half is quest instructions mixed with a tad bit of rationalization.

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The instruction part might not really be necessary since the journal is designed to take care of this step-by-step. Cutting that part would take a considerable amount of the sting out of the wall-of-text.

As I said earlier, I think the members of the localization team have excellent writing skills. However, most of the characters in FFXIV don't sound very appealing because their dialogue consists of written English rather than spoken English. We need characters who speak like they're speaking.

Essentially, the FFXIV team needs some screenwriters to balance things out. Screenwriting seems to be the skill that's missing.