MSQ teleports - A simple band-aid for discouragement of new players in ARR

[Gemina]

I see no reason whatsoever for the devs to go back and rework old content to condense the MSQs from previous expansions. Don't want to go through it? Buy a potion and call it a day.

As a veteran, if you want to help a friend catch up, do you wanna know how to do it? Join their party and queue as a tank if they are not one themselves. This is something in YOUR power to do to make things easier for a friend or FC mate. You can talk about all these bogus fetch quests for days, but nothing is going to delay their progression more than the queue times, especially if your buddy plays a DPS job. If you're so quick to want the dev team to drop everything they're doing to help new players, I'd stunt the requests if you are unwilling to do the same.

What the game should be doing is incentivizing max level tanks to run their roulettes. That is what is going to help low level progression for new players. Leave the MSQ alone. There's nothing wrong with it other than player impatience.

[Edax]

I see no reason whatsoever for the devs to go back and rework old content to condense the MSQs from previous expansions. Don't want to go through it? Buy a potion and call it a day.

As a veteran, if you want to help a friend catch up, do you wanna know how to do it? Join their party and queue as a tank if they are not one themselves. This is something in YOUR power to do to make things easier for a friend or FC mate. You can talk about all these bogus fetch quests for days, but nothing is going to delay their progression more than the queue times, especially if your buddy plays a DPS job. If you're so quick to want the dev team to drop everything they're doing to help new players, I'd stunt the requests if you are unwilling to do the same.

What the game should be doing is incentivizing max level tanks to run their roulettes. That is what is going to help low level progression for new players. Leave the MSQ alone. There's nothing wrong with it other than player impatience.

What the heck is the point of becoming a tank and joining your friend on a tedious MSQ fetch quest?

[Gemina]

What the heck is the point of becoming a tank and joining your friend on a tedious MSQ fetch quest?

Where did I say that? Don't quote and entire post if you don't even read the whole thing.

I'm saying to stop complaining and just eat the quests like the rest of us have. And if anyone wants to help their friends to progress faster, stop asking the devs to rework old content. Instead, when they get to a stopping point and sit in a specific queue for 40+ minutes, then freakin tank for them.

[Edax]

Where did I say that? Don't quote and entire post if you don't even read the whole thing.

I'm saying to stop complaining and just eat the quests like the rest of us have. And if anyone wants to help their friends to progress faster, stop asking the devs to rework old content. Instead, when they get to a stopping point and sit in a specific queue for 40+ minutes, then freakin tank for them.

Is so many players are just leaving the game because of the AAR MSQ, then telling them to "Buy a potion and call it a day" is to completely miss the point.

[Penthea]

Is so many players are just leaving the game because of the AAR MSQ, then telling them to "Buy a potion and call it a day" is to completely miss the point.

I think you exaggerate how many players leave the game because of this. It is fairly common for people to find this part of the msq irritating but I think SE would have done something by now if "so many" were outright quitting over it.

[Edax]

I think you exaggerate how many players leave the game because of this. It is fairly common for people to find this part of the msq irritating but I think SE would have done something by now if "so many" were outright quitting over it.

I admit, I don't exactly have the figures of how many new players leave the game because of the MSQ. I can only speak for myself that I left the game because of it. Bought it at the same time as a friend, we played together for a bit, but I got bored and left, and didn't come back until like 16 months later after my friend convinced me to try the Trials of Bahamut – Real Escape Game at AX.

[Gemina]

I admit, I don't exactly have the figures of how many new players leave the game because of the MSQ. I can only speak for myself that I left the game because of it. Bought it at the same time as a friend, we played together for a bit, but I got bored and left, and didn't come back until like 16 months later after my friend convinced me to try the Trials of Bahamut – Real Escape Game at AX.

I'm sure the number is few. I can also admit that msq grinding can be quite tedious in more than several occasions. But griping about it is akin to going to a Disney musical and then groan about all the singing.

This is unquestionably a story driven mmo, and if you want to know why in one cut scene everything looks fine and dandy, but then for some reason you are in a fiery ring of doom facing a story boss in the next; you're going to have to do some reading and some viewing.

We all know it's grindy. But it's not so extensive to prevent a player from getting caught up unless it's just too much for them to personally go through. There are the options like the potions for these players. But for those who do want to experience the msq, they should be allowed to do so without pressure to quickly reach endgame.

[bass9020]

What the heck is the point of becoming a tank and joining your friend on a tedious MSQ fetch quest?

You are so hostile to everyone for no reason lol take a chill and relaxxxxxxxxx