A serious discussion about abridging the story quest 1-50 (discouraging new players)

[Luvbunny]

I agree with consolidating story, or they should have make a BETTER story structure in the first place instead of insane fetch quests. But this is one game where you should take your time, enjoy, and do it slowly. As Yoshi has stated many times, he is building this as if you are watching a TV series - 2.0 being one season. Honestly, if you are focusing on main story, it goes by rather fast, it is not that bad at all. I know this since I have to do it THREE times for my main and alts. But you know, a lot of players are impatient bunch, GIMME SOME HOTFUZZ ACTION KILL KILL KILL KILL everything!! NOW NOW NOW.

I have to say this game is not lacking story for sure. Most players go here to play Final Fantasy game and EXPECT a FF treatment on their story and CS. They are NOT looking for "western action game with barely any story and dungeon grinder". The fans all WANT and DEMAND story driven similar to how all past FF offline games works. Even FFXI gated and locked out contents behind main story - they ease up some restriction eventually - but always lock all the good stuffs behind main story.

[RichardButte]

But this is one game where you should take your time, enjoy, and do it slowly. As Yoshi has stated many times, he is building this as if you are watching a TV series - 2.0 being one season.

As I said earlier, the issue is that most of the MSQ involves very little actual story but is instead a bunch of busy work that involves little to no actual plotline.

[Tuathaa]

As Yoshi has stated many times, he is building this as if you are watching a TV series - 2.0 being one season.

Fair enough analogy but now people have to watch all the episodes from all the seasons in one sitting and they cant skip the commercials.

[Luvbunny]

Fair enough analogy but now people have to watch all the episodes from all the seasons in one sitting and they cant skip the commercials.

I can use the analogy of Games of Thrones, which is now just wrapped season 5. Do I want a 5 minutes version of season 1-4, so that I can catch up to Season 5 NOW ASAP RIGHT THIS MINUTE OK!! Absolutely not! That would be dumb and pointless. I want a rich storytelling (and their inane filler quests). Plus there is always the skip CS button when I don't feel like I want to watch poorly written dialogue. You can't skip cs or loading scene in Destiny, the atrocities!!

[Lewtskie]

I can use the analogy of Games of Thrones, which is now just wrapped season 5. Do I want a 5 minutes version of season 1-4, so that I can catch up to Season 5 NOW ASAP RIGHT THIS MINUTE OK!! Absolutely not! That would be dumb and pointless. I want a rich storytelling (and their inane filler quests). Plus there is always the skip CS button when I don't feel like I want to watch poorly written dialogue. You can't skip cs or loading scene in Destiny, the atrocities!!

A more accurate analogy is FFXIV is like those Shonen Jump series like Bleach or Naruto or w/e where as in every season you'll find ludicrous amounts of episodes where as the only thing to happen is slice-of-life bullshit. I'll admit to watching Naruto, I was curious and it was popular to people. The parts with action were exciting enough and the story was stupid, but interesting. But for every couple episodes where they fought a big baddie, you had an entire episode about the main character having explosive diarrhea and the whacky hijinks that ensues. That show didn't need episodes about shitting, and this game doesn't need quests about going to the market and picking up fucking tea leaves-GOD DAMNIT TATARU, YOU LAZY MIDGET I HATE YOU.