General MMORPG populace: "We dislike escort quests"

Square Enix: "Lets make every second quest an escort quest and have the NPCs glitch out at least 10 times before reaching the destination, not follow aetheryte transport and reset to the other side of the world if you run too far away from them!"

The only thing that makes running from A to B more dull is by limiting the ways of transport. I appreciate the extra bits of dialogue occasionally offered, but was this really the best way?

I'm not a fan of escort quests out in the world, but the Sharlayan introduction thing was enjoyable. I put it on walk, soaked up the sights, did some people watching, and had a relaxing stroll around the city I'll be zipping around ignoring everything in for the next two years. You only get one chance to experience things the first time.

We're not questing anymore—just doing chores~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw197U1etmk

Sorry but I actually really enjoyed being able to have a party walk around with me in the overworld. It's almost as if this is a Final Fantasy game first and foremost. You do not have to engage with the extra dialogue if you don't want to but I do hope they continue with this new system moving forward.

Yeah I am confused why they went so HARDDDD with escort quest. Shadowbringers it was very very few but now my god.

Okay you know how in ARR - Shadowbringers there are all those quests where the NPCs are like "Lets go to X together!" But they never actually go with you? They are just waiting for you at the destination? Well, Yoshi P said in Endwalker they would actually come with you to all those locations...Is this what they meant? Surely its not working right??

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Originally Posted by Xaruko_Nexume

Okay you know how in ARR - Shadowbringers there are all those quests where the NPCs are like "Lets go to X together!" But they never actually go with you? They are just waiting for you at the destination? Well, Yoshi P said in Endwalker they would actually come with you to all those locations...Is this what they meant? Surely its not working right??

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So the idea is they want you to get the dialogue options in between that are supposed to be optional but because it is designed this way you have to hit those triggers it seems.

I mean, it is the intro to a new expansion. It's to be expected that they put you on rails to show you all the shiny new stuff that you're going to be expected to know about 30 quests from then.

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

I mean, it is the intro to a new expansion. It's to be expected that they put you on rails to show you all the shiny new stuff that you're going to be expected to know about 30 quests from then.

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Played from 6am up to about 1:50pm and yeah it is just about every other quest. It is not really an exaggeration but I get why they are designed like this. They are not doing it for a time sink so that is good. I am wondering if it will ease up later on into this.

The story is stupiddddddddd good right now though.

I like them tbh, gives a feeling of a more rpg game, and gives more time communicating with characters we otherwise barely have time with. I can see why some people might not like it I guess, but I myself enjoy them.

The "Tracks in the Snow" one is by far the worst that I've experienced so far.

Escort Quests > Kill Quests

That said, they need to be designed well, which they rarely are.

I had lost my npcs so many times now.
And long loading problems due to congestion has made it even worse.

I don't mind having the NPCs accompany me.

I do mind having to start the entire walk over from scratch and listen to all the boring dialog bits again because I was needed elsewhere for 10 minutes, or because the NPCs can't be bothered to attune to the aethernet we had passed by 5 minutes ago even though I did.

It's one thing when an escort quest is about protecting the NPC on a trip from one location to another but it's entirely needless when they're doing no more than behaving like toddlers looking for attention and when they lose your attention for 30 seconds they throw a tantrum.

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Originally Posted by Puremallace

Yeah I am confused why they went so HARDDDD with escort quest. Shadowbringers it was very very few but now my god.

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because once yoshi-p does something it just keeps going till you are sick of it, do you remember duty actions on raids? or dual bosses on final bosses for savage? or "shoot that random thing"?

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Originally Posted by DrFlesh

because once yoshi-p does something it just keeps going till you are sick of it, do you remember duty actions on raids? or dual bosses on final bosses for savage? or "shoot that random thing"?

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I don't remember him going as hard on any of those as he has on this though