Quest Hubs issues

[Dirich]

Agreed....the whole concept/idea behind Final Fantasy is just being "tossed out the window' with this "hurry up and skip content" mindset. Yes..to each their own - but its just sad.

As a note, it's an MMORPG, and the game starts at max level. Unless you wish to play it as a single player, which is also fine, in which case you might enjoy being lower level too. But being max level is also important if you want to play with your friends on content they care about. That is, without forcing them to do pointless content, which is something they might not enjoy, albeit they'd do it just to play with you. It's literally in the game genre (unless you go back to pre WOW when MMORPGS were only levelling).

But this is really beyond the point of the thread. And many, not just you, have misunderstood the topic.
The topic has nothing to do with how you like the game or what we can do now to level fast. It's about feedback on things that I deem to be bad design decision, so that they don't do it again the next time.

Everybody, regardless of play style and taste (rush-to-70 or not), are affected by too much travel time and excessive use of point-and-click type quests (quests not using any interesting mechanic, be it the combat one or some special non-combat one, like the "zoom + search + sleep dart the target").

Everybody that wishes to play FFXIV as a MMORPG (rush-70) is affected by the lack of a skip option for text dialogue that allows to skip the -very long- dialogues and the -very long- pauses caused by emotes (even when performed by other characters). This is mainly an issue for the first job, as you are forced to go through MSQ to unlock content (albeit, personally, I'd use it on the side quests only, many I know would use it on MSQ too, since they don't care about the story at all).