Friends of mine, new to the game, becoming discouraged by STORY QUESTS

[dekal]

It feels like they are comparing swtor power lvling with Ffxiv. This game is not about getting to lvl 60 in 1-2 days. It is about story and actually read the skills description and read and pay attention to some CS tutorial to the skills functions.

[Derio]

Its FF, there is a storyline.

Raiding is a very very very small part of this game.

The storyline is what many people enjoy in FF games.

[AlphaFox]

Tbf if they are skipping the story, why are they even playing at all? Do they think that HW isn't about story either? Lol...

Personally I could care less for the story and skipped over pretty much everything around Shiva and through HW. I am here for the gameplay.

[Zojha]

Personally I could care less for the story and skipped over pretty much everything around Shiva and through HW.

Similar - Except I 'stopped' caring about the story and started skipping once everyone I was happy to leave behind made a comeback of sort.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

The story is definately better in small chunks, then trying to power through it all at once. But if your friends aren't having fun at level 50, then I'm not sure they will have fun at level 60 either. Because lvl 60 content isn't much different than the lvl 50 content. It will be interesting to see what they do for 4.0 though as far as story goes. I would suggest them to take a small break from the story and do some crystal tower stuff, or coil.. then go back to the story a bit later.

[Miles_Maelstrom]

I am there with you, OP. I got my brother and his GF to join. The GF is definitely more used to story and final Fantasy games then my brother but still they have expressed their displeasure of the length of guests in the 50 area. Especially cause a lot of them are not that story intensive, a big block there is all about setting up the new base, and your character becomes a errand Boy, not even a glorified one.

Hell one of the ones they love to point out where you have to help a guy with his stinky chocobo problem. That is not story that is busy work to tide us over to the new content is released. SE could do with some streamlining of that content. A lot of quests could be dropped while maintaining the necessary information.

They are also express displeasure in that the quests offer no rewards. With giving gear out worse than the stuff they spoon feed you from the class 45 and 50 quest and pitiful experience gains, it leaves the player believing they are wasting a lot of time.

[Nici]

This is something similar that happened with a few friends i invited to play FFXIV, they came from a WoW raiding background...really hard core raiders, and to make a long story short they didn't even get past level 40...complaint after complaint non-stop lol, there was too much to read, there were too many cut scenes, was there any way to skip all that and power level them lol, it got to the point where it made it kind of awkward to do anything with them or help them...to read FC chat as they bad mouth the game you and other friends are enjoying playing the game, then they just stopped logging in after awhile.

You can't make someone like something, it was sad to see them quit but at the same time a relief cause they were really putting a damper on my FFXIV playing experience and fun.

[Aramina]

Stuffs...

I could have written your post.. *exact* thing happened to me. Oh well, I would have liked for them to enjoy the game with me, but since all they did was bitch about.. well... everything... glad they gave up. :P

[Jynx]

6 months after an expansion players who are at the previous level cap or whatever should get the option to forgo the previous expansions content.


The only issue then becomes of stuff like mount rewards and new system unlocked during progression.

I think it shouldn't be skipped but at least this would be an alternative.

[AngeloFlick]

I am glad that FFXIV is so story driven. It's one of the big reasons I'm here instead of WoW or some other game. If someone wants to jump to max level raiding in 5 days, the rest of the available MMOs on the market that aren't Final Fantasy will let them do that. Leave my MSQ alone and go play something else.