[Stormblood Budget] Where all the money's gone ?

[Voltyblast]

This is simply no single player game that you might enjoy for the story, this is a MMO.

I also agree and I think the game should just be more about gameplay WITH story elements together: Afterall we have SWTOR to make a good comparison when it comes to storytelling, with their well-done dialogues and ALL voiced cutscenes, even for basic quests. Sure some lines are recycled but they get the job done. But here? For one thing, I haven't seen an MMO with such a lack of voice acting and when there is one, it's usually f2p made by small companies where they rather spend money on other things than voice acting. But this is supposed to be an AAA game...yet there's as much dialogue as a ps1 game? And even then, I'm all for voiceless games - heck I loved Legend of Dragoon and similar back in the day - but at this point, I'd say the dialogue could be just more fluid and better paced: I can't stand a para and half worth of text when it can summed it up in 10 words.

Still, this is also why I usually don't even bother discussing anymore and it caused me so much issues with the game's community in the past (especially in my server, wherein fear of harassment I just name changed for a good year) that I kept most of my opinions of myself, where instead of actually acknowledging the faults of having a "story focused mmo" they simply say "you're wrong you're just mental/hater/etc.

At this point I just "live and let live": if people want more FF story then I guess more power to them, since the stories in the latest games don't make a lot of sense anymore and since 12 (and partially 10) I just dropped them and moved on other franchises. Their plots are somewhat understandable at least.

But to sum up my thoughts, I want a deal between gameplay and story, but if the story is the one getting the most - and people are fine with it (because it's final fantasy, it has to have a story) then I suppose nothing will change and we'll get less and less content, but more and more story...which is good until it's over in those 2 to 5 hours of gameplay for what, 6 months of waiting?

Oh well, at least 1.0 had a great story and even if its gameplay sucked and it lived long enough thanks to it.

PS: yes that was sarcastic.