Square Enix blew it for some of us, but I'm still here...

[Xandure]

I'm sorry, but clearly you're craving attention of some kind and I'm here to give it to you.

Oh wait, never mind.

Your point is mute.

Also, Heavensward is a great expansion. The story is great and earning your right to fly is worth it. SquareEnix got this right. Sorry you had a bad first impression. Your lose. You should quit while you're behind.

[Luciano_Bozzelli]

I always found people weird to say a storyline isn't good, or doesn't grab their attention, but they skip all the dialogue. A game is only immersive as you let it. Example, I read damn near everything. Main Scenario I read, fetch quest I read pretty fast, but if you come to an npc press X a million times, and then just go get what they ask and come back, yeah its a fetch quest, but to tie in what they are saying makes it not so much a fetch quest, but just extra dialogue for the main story.

For instance, in Ishgard main city, there was a dude with his head on the table, drunk and slumped over. When I talked to the bar tender he told me that the dude had lost his daughter to an illness. This wasn't even a MSQ, or a side quest. But it gave me a greater sense of the well being of some of the citizens that live in Ishgard, and the treatment of people who weren't highborn, and born of the 4 houses. The game can be very deep, or you can skip a lot of ish, and say to your self, that wasn't much... You say to yourself "I don't read story" but that's all like buying a complete meal, but only drinking the drink, and eating the meat off the burger, cause your in a hurry, forget the other stuff you paid for.

[Lycinder]

I have enjoyed heavensward so far and will normally just go meh to people with different opinions on it but -

5. What happened to what made the Final Fantasy franchise so great? Where is the "HOLY CRAP, THAT WAS EPIC!" part of the game? Final Fantasy 11 did a much better job with the main scenerio in that regards.

How far did you even get in the storyline? There are multiple moments, even wiping to the first primals phase transition is a "OMG THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY THE GREATEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I EVER SAW!!"

[FoxyAreku]

How in the world did you make it to level 50 if you hate fetch quests so much that you'll quit over them?

That's basically all levels 1 to 47 were. Early leveling is way worse and tedious. None of this is new, really surprised you didn't expect it. At least in HW they spice it up a little and keep it fresh. >.>

[Coraline]

1. Flying is so valuable. Questing is not the only thing to do. What about fates,gathering, hunts and look outs? Who know what else they'll add with flying.
You should never be able to fly off the bat in any mmo. The reason wow went back to on ground mounts to give a better feel and exploration to the world. If you could just fly everywhere then you aren't in an area long enough to enjoy its surroundings.

2. Yes the quests have been rather tedious, fetch like and point A-B-C-A-C-B. Very annoying and ruins the flow of everything.

[KaedrianLiang]

OP probably skip-click-spams through quest text. When you play a game like that its going to be boring and meaningless. I wouldn't be surprised if OP plays with sound or BGM off.

I'm taking my time with the MSQ and even side story quests. There's an extreme amount of character development. Once upon a time i read 2-3 books a month, now i play FFXIV.

Immerse yourself into the ffxiv world. When you play, do so in your own free and private time where you can shutout the real world. Get lost in it. I had a very slow time progressing through Falcon's Nest as the BGM combined with the shattered history of Western coerthas, and Legacy players have actually been there once upon a time, kept giving me the feels.

[Alunari]

No game can please everyone. You and your friends will eventually find one you like.

This!

No gaming company whether it be SE, Blizzard, ArenaNet etc can please everyone, they aim for their audience and tell the story/design the game as they envision it. I am not saying that companies are never influenced by their players, but usually not on major game direction.

Saying that I have loved the start of Heavensward, it has engrossed me from the start. Yes there are fetch quests here and there, but they are often the calm before the storm ... love it.

Also as for flying, I enjoy that I have to open flying up in each zone, and I enjoy the way to have done it, it encourages exploring on your main job, but then it is open for you levelling subsequent jobs.

[Gunspec]

After unlocking flying, you will never visit the zone again. NEVER. Not for leve quests, not for gathering, not for treasure maps, hunts, fate grinding, future beast tribe content, future 3.X quests, and certainly not for the dozen classes you haven't been initially leveling as. In fact, the moment you unlock flying, the data for the zone itself is DELETED from your hard drive, because it serves no further use.

[3Jane]

1* Speed and convenience when required. The searching introduces you to the regions in detail on the ground, finding your way around etc. There are some interesting places you come across by doing that.

2* Just normal MMO stuff and not an unreasonable amount of that really, to me anyway.

3* Offering your services to your new host in return for saving your skin by giving you the protection of his house, is really a lot more than running errands. Given the skills of the Scions and your own character, it's the kind of courtesy I would expect.

4* A point of view which seems to have some support on the forums, but something which I personally disagree with Mainly because this is a heavily story driven game, and series in general.

5* Be patient, it's only just started.

[Mooga]

This post! Is so Lolololololol wrong in so many levels, and stupid to say the least but I don't want to be rude.

1 - The way they are doing flying is pretty good and I approve highly. Been given flying out of no where like "WoW.BC" would be disappointing. Having flying just for your lazy sake of moving is not an option that's why there is groundmounts.

2 - You played 1 hour and not 10 hours for sure. Anyway there is always fetch quests, you are being "trialed" after all.

3 - YOU literally didn't play much at all. I had at least 12 HORYY SHITS SPAZMS from the Main Quest Scenario in Heavensward, and that counting was from 50 to 56 only.

4 - Many people want to be iLvL250, so they can weez weez the content and stop playing 2 months until next major patch. I bet you don't even read the text.

5 - Ravanna? Bismark? Vault? Played any of those? HW Fate chains? Then your opinion is not valid!.

Tenku Kibo, I'm from the same server and I'm... so disappointed with you.