Need more incentives to do side quests

[MistakeNot]

Side quests, especially 51+, are in a terrible spot of being generally useless.

The only ones that are worth doing are:
Plus quests - they unlock something
Beast tribes - they give massive experience

If the rewards (gear/exp) from the quests are the only reason you do them, then they are indeed near-useless.

But that is not the only thing you get from them. Each and every one of them gives you more information about the world and most of them tell some small story.
If that kind of thing does not interest you, then I'd say you are playing the wrong game.

Personally I do not do them mainly for the rewards, but because I find them fun and/or interesting. If you do not enjoy them, then don't do them - they aren't meant for you in that case.

[CryBloodwing]

I do side quests to somewhat level my DPS classes when I am very bored of POTD.

I also try to do all of them because I am a completionist....

[Squintina]

If the rewards (gear/exp) from the quests are the only reason you do them, then they are indeed near-useless.If that kind of thing does not interest you, then I'd say you are playing the wrong game.

I wish people would quit saying "you're playing the wrong game" anytime someone has a suggestion they disagree with. Is it really that hard to accept that there are multiple reasons to enjoy a game? Is it also that hard to think a person might enjoy a game MORE (they already enjoy it, but they could enjoy it more) if X was done? Or is the only thing people like you are able to do is to just invalidate someone else's opinion by going "just leave"? That's not constructive.

At least your follow-up of 'If you do not enjoy them, then don't do them - they aren't meant for you in that case." is more reasonable.

Also at no point did I say I didn't enjoy the story or other parts of it. I do enjoy the side story quests (the moogle postmaster sidequests gave me quite a chuckle and I enjoyed them despite that they gave no exp whatsoever), and learning about the world, but we also get to learn about the world from other content so once again compared to other content it doesn't offer much. If we get rewarded for doing other things in this game, why can't we be rewarded for doing the side story quests? What would be SO wrong with expanding the achievements to make completionists be able to have a visual for how many side quests they've gone through? If we can have an achievement for killing thousands of S ranks, for doing thousands of front line runs, RW runs, Feast runs (each separate), for various steps of the MSQ, for every dungeon, for all the maps, for doing thousands and thousands of leves, but yet none for doing a thousand sidequest? What's so wrong with wanting that?