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

[Miles_Maelstrom]

I see a lot of people accusing people who complain of being ex-WoW players or that they hate story. The example I gave in the beginning of this thread was neither. My Brother and his GF, aren't planning on quitting over this, they seem to be in for the long haul they have just been slowly becoming more and more annoyed with it. It's understandable really, that long stretch of quests at 50 lack something.

Do you see any threads complaining about the story in the leveling process between 1 to 50, no and why is that? What that has over the long stretch at 50 is your own characters progression. You maybe doing some quests that seem trivial at time, those "fetch" quests, but they seem less boring and monotonous because you are progressing your character. During the level 50 quest wall, you are no longer progressing your character you're stagnating. Players can feel that. The quests themselves basically all give no reward besides story and some don't even give that.

I do not want to be able to skip the story, but they need to streamline it. A lot of the quests during this time were plain busy work to keep us placated until the next patch. Many do not contribute to the story at all. Like when we needed that cart to make a delivery, but the driver's chocobo was smelly and wanted the player to get him some chocobo perfume to help. That is not important to the story arc. SE could go through determine now which are story essential and which aren't and make them side quest or MSQ based on their content. I can help right now a lot of the quests that involve the actual set-up of the new base are not story essential, movers can do that off screen and nothing of value would be lost.

Just food for thought.

Edit: Dumb character limit!