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    2.) Story line progression sucks. There I said it. I know everyone likes it and points to it as a great part of the game. Think about it. How many time have you gone to a new area, collected your quest and run off to pick up 3-5 things along some linear pathway with 2 or 3 mobs popping up on the way. Then return to the new city and talk to 3-4 npcs in random locations, fetch something somewhere, a mob pops up again somewhere else and then return to the original npc and now we are off to another new city to start all over again. This is batch questing pure and simple, someone recycled the same stuff repeatedly with a new skin and some new text but ultimately its the same set of 3-5 quest in each area that we are all repeating.
    2a.) To fix: You cant, this game was built as a wow clone with much better graphics and as such its a grind fest of fetching things and going to kill mobs thinly disguised.
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    3.) Lack of foresight with the RMT's and continued lack of doing anything about it. The game is supposed to be an immersive experience, someone pulling me out of this to offer me in game currency for my real world money just pulls me back out to remind me that yes Im not in Square enix's world, im in my living room playing a game that has every intention of sucking every dollar i own out of my pocket. I'm here to have fun and escape my day to day life, not be reminded of it a dozen times every time i entered a new zone.
    3a.) Do something about it and now, not at patch 2.1, not in batches of a thousand, do something now. Hire half a dozen people for every server, have them sit in every major city and start banning immediately and on the spot. This can be done and it should be done.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IronToe View Post
    2.) Story line progression sucks. There I said it. I know everyone likes it and points to it as a great part of the game. Think about it. How many time have you gone to a new area, collected your quest and run off to pick up 3-5 things along some linear pathway with 2 or 3 mobs popping up on the way. Then return to the new city and talk to 3-4 npcs in random locations, fetch something somewhere, a mob pops up again somewhere else and then return to the original npc and now we are off to another new city to start all over again. This is batch questing pure and simple, someone recycled the same stuff repeatedly with a new skin and some new text but ultimately its the same set of 3-5 quest in each area that we are all repeating.
    2a.) To fix: You cant, this game was built as a wow clone with much better graphics and as such its a grind fest of fetching things and going to kill mobs thinly disguised.
    It sound like you skipped the text and just ran around and killed stuff without knowing why.
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    I will
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    Quote Originally Posted by Felis View Post
    It sound like you skipped the text and just ran around and killed stuff without knowing why.
    I actually read through it all up to what Im at in the story. Im at level 40 in the battlecrafts and I took a huge detour into crafting/gathering because it was significantly more rewarding then the storyline was (for being fun) because like I said it just recycled the same things over and over again with new text and new skins/mobs, but ultimately the same exact thing over again, go get item a/b/c and a mob pops up on item b/c, ok thanks now go talk to npc a/b/c/d and come back to me, ok thanks heres lvl 20/25/30 gear for you. Whenever i go back to the story line I just feel like its a burden. Actually if i skipped the text id probably be done with the game by now story wise, Ive been playing every day since pre-trial started and Im not even finished with the quest line yet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Felis View Post
    It sound like you skipped the text and just ran around and killed stuff without knowing why.
    Doing chores to gain people's trust sure make for some interesting context.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Menubrea View Post
    Doing chores to gain people's trust sure make for some interesting context.


    Adventurers aren't welcome, or trusted, everywhere. even in the 3 cities with adventurer guild, in story there is a high turnover rate. Many of the clients you end up meeting have their own problems and misgivings to handle, they're not going to just hand the keys over to you; especially if they can do the ol' "Say, while you are here, why don't you do this?" routine to lessen their load.

    What, you don't like it? It's tedious busywork? That's why your questgivers AREN'T doing it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kallera View Post
    Adventurers aren't welcome, or trusted, everywhere. even in the 3 cities with adventurer guild, in story there is a high turnover rate. Many of the clients you end up meeting have their own problems and misgivings to handle, they're not going to just hand the keys over to you; especially if they can do the ol' "Say, while you are here, why don't you do this?" routine to lessen their load.

    What, you don't like it? It's tedious busywork? That's why your questgivers AREN'T doing it.
    "Hey, you're Mae right? I heard you slayed Garuda and Titan, you're amazing!...Now go give my guards Tea."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tupsi View Post
    "Hey, you're Mae right? I heard you slayed Garuda and Titan, you're amazing!...Now go give my guards Tea."
    You're an adventurer, its what you do. Some of them might even explain why they are having you give the guards tea. They aren't all going to be "Do this now or the Nation is Doomed/War is lost!" the adventurer's guild makes a point of telling you this, its part of your job description.
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    Last edited by Kallera; 10-01-2013 at 01:52 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kallera View Post
    You're an adventurer, its what you do. Some of them might even explain why they are having you give the guards tea. They aren't all going to be "Do this now or the Nation is Doomed/War is lost!" the adventurer's guild makes a point of telling you this, its part of your job description.
    No, it's not what "you" do, it's what "adventurers" do. Kevin Spacey doesn't play back alley theatres; it's what actors do, but it's not what he does. When you've bested Ifrit, Titan and Garuda your time is too damn valuable to spend it on stuff any adventurer could do.
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