Refunded for Heavensward.

[Kopuno]

Honestly I get it. As much as I love the story line, and me, myself had to rummage through over 100 MSQ's to catch up (which took a week of casual play) SE needs to really make a short-cut. I know several people who seriously got turned off by having to do all the stupid Fetch Quest and pointless A > B ones.

SE whould go through the quest, find the valid ones. (The ones that actually matter to the story) and condense them with an option if the player so wants. Therefore allowing the player to still see the story and be a part of it, while avoid all the not needed filler crap you have to go through to get to 3.0. Lets be real, Out of 100 of the MSQ you need to do (More like 150) only about 15-20 are even important or NOT filler.

[jomoru]

"the level 50 fetch quests and dungeons I have to do in the old world are boring why cna't I do level 50 fetch quetss in new places right away!"

[Irema]

As someone who recently had to go through this I commend you for requesting a refund. I have time so I could easily get through the content and I read up on games a lot so I knew what to expect. They cannot continue to gate expansions behind 100 quests at a single level. Which by the way won't by itself even get you to 51 through quests alone. What are they going to do when the next expansion comes and the one after that? Allow those who like stories to continue on with those quests and others the ability to unlock the expansion after a reasonable amount of effort. 100 quests is excessive and not at all reasonable.

[Ramzal]

Square just got back to me about my refund for Heavensward. I bought the expansion upon hitting level 50 expecting to move on to Ishgard, etc etc. Turns out I still had to play through all the irrelevant lv50 content, but in the meantime of doing that I grew bored of the game and had no interest in Heavensward, hence getting a refund. Kinda felt scammed.

Such a shame. I was pretty excited when I hit lv50, but doing endless fetch quests for virtually no reward (4k exp at lv50) for over a month really killed the game for me.

To be perfectly honest, I would not have refunded you. Kudos to SE for being nice enough to, but you didn't do any research, you just bought the game, assumed everything would just be given to you and wanted your money back. That's your fault not Squares. The minecraft situation with multiplayer was reason enough for a refund/suing. This? This was no one but you who made a mistake that you don't really admit to. :/ It sucks to say it but that's the truth. It maybe better to buy single player games that cater to your liking more.

[LunaHoshino]

If you disliked the 2.0 content enough to not even want to finish it, what made you think the HW content would be any different?

"I don't like this TV show so I never watched the second season, but I'm going to buy the third season anyway." Use some common sense here.

[jomoru]

As someone who recently had to go through this I commend you for requesting a refund. I have time so I could easily get through the content and I read up on games a lot so I knew what to expect. They cannot continue to gate expansions behind 100 quests at a single level. Which by the way won't by itself even get you to 51 through quests alone. What are they going to do when the next expansion comes and the one after that? Allow those who like stories to continue on with those quests and others the ability to unlock the expansion after a reasonable amount of effort. 100 quests is excessive and not at all reasonable.

I had 2 people in my FC go through this who hit 53 before getting expansion so.. I don't believe you that they won't hit 51 doing it.

[Asierid]

As someone who recently had to go through this I commend you for requesting a refund. I have time so I could easily get through the content and I read up on games a lot so I knew what to expect. They cannot continue to gate expansions behind 100 quests at a single level. Which by the way won't by itself even get you to 51 through quests alone. What are they going to do when the next expansion comes and the one after that? Allow those who like stories to continue on with those quests and others the ability to unlock the expansion after a reasonable amount of effort. 100 quests is excessive and not at all reasonable.

Yeah, this is incorrect. The quests get you to 53 easily.

The exaggeration is real.

[Irema]

I had 2 people in my FC go through this who hit 53 before getting expansion so.. I don't believe you that they won't hit 51 doing it.

There are around 100 quests they give 4,800 exp a piece. I believe level 50 required somewhere around 800,000 exp so over half a level. I don't remember any of the dungeons or trials giving exp. I did hit 51 but the quests alone didn't get me there.

[Irema]

Yeah, this is incorrect. The quests get you to 53 easily.

The exaggeration is real.

Not true I'm not sure if this link will work for you but here is my character http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...cter/11818519/
As you can see I've unlocked astrologian so I've gotten to heavensward. And my Scholar which I abandoned right when I unlocked the expansion is lvl 51.

[LunaHoshino]

There's no need to be more than lvl 50 to start HW, though. It was designed so that all of the people who had completed 2.55 before they lifted the level cap could do all of the instanced duties easily.

The people who got to get experience from the 2.1-2.55 MSQ actually had it easier in terms of less grinding required in HW.