What do you want in an MMO?

[Failia]

My first post.

I will keep this specific to FFXIV as it is right now.

I want less hand-holding. It's cool if SE wants to show me exactly what to do, where to go, etc. During the main quest to help keep the progression to end on a nice, smooth pass. But can I please have some challenging, optional side quests along the way to entertain me. Perhaps some puzzles and/or riddles to solve. Easter egg type material.

I am new to this game, so perhaps I am missing something. However, I have not came across topics that discuss anything to the contrary of what i have just referred to in any forum.

One of the best games that I have encountered for a situation that you're referring to is The Secret World. The game play didn't interest me much but it has some of the best and most interesting quests that I've ever been involved with.

[Ecosmith]

One of the best games that I have encountered for a situation that you're referring to is The Secret World. The game play didn't interest me much but it has some of the best and most interesting quests that I've ever been involved with.

I will second this. The Secret World has 'Investigation Missions', where you have to basically investigate mysteries. You might find an esoteric manuscript, for example, which has some sort of cryptic reference. To decipher it, you often have to use real-world knowledge or gooel something. One of them had numbers in a message which turned out to be a code for a certain psalm in the bible, and when you read that it suggested a location in game to go to, and when you got there, there are paintings on the wall, just scenery, but actually one of them depicts something odd that leads you somewhere else, etc.

They are very cool indeed. The rest of the game is also ok-ish, but it has elements I didn't like. Travel is again stupidly slow, and compounding this, mobs attack you no matter what level you are (so you get 'ankle-biter' syndrome when you're lvl 50 and you run through a lvl 1-10 zone and hordes of zombies swarm around you not doing any damage, but if you get attacked Sprint detoggles, so its annoying as hell.