Quote Originally Posted by Blarp View Post
Character progression in RPG's is a staple, but when that progression isn't immersive, rewarding, or engaging it's a problem. FFXIV is missing all three of those. If you sat down to play a single player RPG, and the game manual told you to progress that you must participate in redundant and uninspired tasks for a month, would you still play? I wouldn't. The RPG is missing from most MMO's including this one, and unfortunately the MMO part seems to be synonymous with time sinks to slow players down.

Leveling should be emergent. You shouldn't have to go out of your way to level in an RPG unless that's the way you enjoy playing the game.
o for the love of god please don't start throwing around the term emergent lol. Immersion threads have met the same wall of opposition as this, none of us have advocated a non emergent system or a non rewarding system for that matter.

And the "If you sat down to play a single player RPG, and the game manual told you to progress that you must participate in redundant and uninspired tasks for a month, would you still play? I wouldn't." look into Disgaea you wont like it, but thats pretty much what it is lol, and for the nich market its in it is very popular.