Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
The interesting part of the cookies quest is not what you're doing, but the comments you receive, which do give quite a few interesting hints on the life in Limsa, on some of the races and other things. Of course, reading comprehension and the ability to resist speedclicking is necessary (not to mention actual interest in the actual lore of the world, not just in the lore of the impending war against enemy X).

What people with poor taste and poor understanding don't really manage to grasp is that realistic worlds are populated with real people, that have everyday problems. Great lore and information about the world can be conveyed very well through those people.
In a realistic world not every headstrong kid needs to be saved to help protect a nation from a beastman onslaught.

In a realistic fantasy world there are both people with their everyday problems, and other people rallying companies of elite soldiers to prepare against the invasion of a ruthless empire of machina users.

FFXIV is building up having both. Immersion is built by a sense of realism, and if there were only quests to save the world, that sense of immersion would go down the drain.

I'm afraid the one with low standards (and no knowledge on how to build an immersive, realistic world), here, isn't me.
alright then, what have you learned from the cookies quest?
People dont play an MMO to experiance real life. People play real life for that
People expect things in a game to be INTERESTING. Spending 1 hour walking around for 2 lines of meaningless lore is not interesting to the average person.