I was hoping for a real AH and the day when we can say goodbye to our useless zombies. Seems like the only story cutscenes will be in the mog battle which means that all the other quests will be leves given by the NPCs.

At this point I think we have enough trash-quests and NMs. I see no reason why we have to wait until 2.0 until they start doing more fleshed out quest-lines(with proper story)? I understand that they'd have to be pretty town based because the map will have more variety in the future but still.