Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
There would be a difference. Again, the entire thing is a love letter to Ivalice fans. It added more references and tied some of the existing references to FFXIV's version of 'Ivalice' together rather nicely. It took a matter of minutes to complete and every aspect of the raid and content surrounding it has never been advertised as anything but a love letter to Ivalice fans. If you don't enjoy it, that's fine - but you only ever have to do the quest once. I'm sure there's far more tedious tasks that you'll be doing. Running the same duties over and over for a specific piece of loot, perhaps?
I disagree that there would be a difference.

As I said before, if they were insistent on putting this in the storyline, they could have put it in AFTER the raid, or, as Dualgunner suggested, as an OPTIONAL quest chain for interested parties, which fits in even better considering it was meant as a tribute to Ivalice fans, as you said—let people who want the love letter do it, and let others that don’t particularly want it skip it without locking content behind it. I love the lore in this game, but I could not stand that quest chain. It was pointless, in my opinion, and I was not interested in the least.

Re: running content for loot—at least I’m getting something worthwhile out of it. There was nothing worthwhile in fetching wine for people.