Originally Posted by
Dirich
You are talking qualitatively, saying that it doesn't take too long. I gave numbers: I played 3 hours, of which less than 15 minutes were combat, the rest was all running around and clicking on non-moving stuff or clicking through dialogues (or watching/reading MSQ stuff).
We can discuss if reading MSQ text is "playing" as it is a necessity for the story to advance (I'd rather not though, as it is a bit out of topic), but the fact that a major activity is "waiting for character to move from A to B" is an issue regardless of it.
The fact that "skipping text I don't want to read" is another not irrelevant part of the time, is another issue, albeit it only affects part of the player base. How much of it, only a proper statistic by the devs can tell.
In my experience in MMORPGS, though, the majority rushes max level without reading, a minority either reads everything immediately or rushes first and then goes back and reads the side quests (maybe on an alt). If your experience differs -and you don't have the habit to be in an roleplay or lore-geek community- then count me surprised. Regardless, neither yours nor mine are proper statistics unless we back them with numbers and proper sources.