Surprisingly, The outdated MMO is WOW, not FFXI/XIV1.2

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forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/356964-Please-Reconsider-MSQ-Changes
forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/360092-I-m-not-sure-I-can-do-this-again.

While i definitely didn't read all 90+ pages I feel like I got the idea of the thread I'll toss in my own anecdotal evidence and thoughts.

I played 1.0 when it launched and then quite for a long time before coming back to 2.0 after HW had launched. When I finally got to these two dungeons they had already been around for a long time. Up till that point I had happily watched all the cutscenes and read most of the dialogs that came up through the MSQ. When I queued for the first dungeon and was met with all of the speed runners and scene skippers I did not like it. Being that I played a healer I felt it was necessary for me to skip the scenes and keep up with the group. I really had no idea what was going on in the run. People were mass pulling everything, ignoring mechanics, and standing in AoE. It was just a mess.

The next dungeon was even worse. People skipped all sorts of mobs in front of transporters, didn't wait for others to get on elevators, and again ignored mechanics. I was expecting some of this due to my last run but it was still very frustrating. After that run was over I went to an inn and watched all of the scenes. Watching them in the inn was not nearly as enjoyable as seeing them in person and in context but it got the job done.

Fast forward to when I hit 60 and started running the MSQ daily and I found my self resorting to the same things that I disliked. I skip cutscenes, ignore mechanics, and sometimes stand in AoE. I do at least wait for people to get on elevators and help explain things if someone asks a question.

With the recent change to the MSQ Roulette I won't say that I will never run it again, but I will say that it will be at the bottom of my list of priorities. Having to take that long to complete a run I have done hundreds of times before is not my idea of fun. Having fun is the reason why I play this game. I really do hope they come up with a better solution soon.

I may have rose colored or tinted glasses but I was eager to play XIV during 1.?? It was fun and exciting. The community seemed more involved and they didn’t spoon feed you every little thing. Before the servers went down for 1.0 you had to deal with the difficulty of primals, dungeons etc. I don’t think I’m ready to give up just yet but I am hoping they make another mmo in the future that goes back to those roots.

Modern people asked for easy & fast contents, instant gratification, but they forgot this is a sub game,
you are expected to keep playing it,so SE can keep making money from you,not play & leave.
and it requires development time to make a content，to polish a content

So thats what you get now:Play 100 easy,simple,short & fast,lower quality, same old dungeons every month, highly repetitive & boring.
instead of 50 slower & longer, but higher quality,more challenging, memorable & fun dungeons and open world contents.

And modern people refuse to wait 5-20 more minutes to form a party themself or look for a party,
so you have a DF feature, and the more horrible things: everyone is a random,impatient, unkind, rude and self-seeking stranger(what's this like? the fallen human, something mentioned in the Bible? I don't know)
or like a npc, a toxic community and the loneliness.

Delicious food, every wonderful things, require time to make & wait
Don't want to wait?then here you are：Some fast food, some genetically modified junk. this is the natural law,
oh.. what a good modern life...