What happened to Goal-Oriented content?

Sort of related to: [dev1002] Storylines and world quests

There was a bit of discussion a while back about introducing goal oriented content, so that there was a reason to log in and actually do things.

NMs seemed to sort of address the issue, but the gear they dropped was not very goal-worthy. Quests sounded like it was going to be really promising... but there are not any rewards what-so-ever, so there are no real goals there.

No carrot on the stick. Just a carrot (guildleves), or just a stick (quests). Just chaining quests together and rewarding with something useful... an item exclusive to that quest chain would be a very simple way to keep players going as other things are introduced.

Lets see the carrot on a stick!

For what it's worth, I agree that there needs to be more goal-oriented content. At the moment I don't know what I'm supposed to work towards in the game. I would probably play a lot more if I had that something. I know I can do quests in order to get more quests, but it would be nice to have some kind of major quests with rewards on par with FFXI's chocobo licence, airship pass, Ishgard access, etc. as you go up the ranks.

Admittedly I havne't got far up the ranks myself so am not 100% sure on what there is on offer, but from the details I've read online, it's not much. There are no people saying to me "omg, you need to get to rank __ so you/we can ________!"

This game = Grind grind grind, there is absolute nothing else to it XD I do other things to keep myself amused such as forums/my xivpads.

I have to agree. The quests were pathetic at best. The "lore" everyone was talking about is about as juicy as cardboard. The rewards are worthless, as I can go out and purchase them in the Market Wards, instead of wasting my time doing a quest that I get absolutely nothing for.

I agree completely that if they had added some rare/ex gear, or class specific gear, or just something to make the quest worth doing... I might not have been as disappointed. But as it was released to be the "content" that would quell our angry forums postings... all it did was make me think that SE completely missed the point.

If that's all quests are going to be, don't even bother writing more.

Obviously, I would hope that in the future, when they aren't trying to fix this great broken thing, they might actually invest some time into the quality of the quests, and think out some decent rewards. Otherwise, we're looking at a waste of time, inside a waste of time.