Future .5 MSQ

[Hestzhyen]

Have patience and let the Devs pace the story as they see fit... they already have enough on their hands trying to deliver great cutscenes to warp up Stormblood while also working feverishly to get 5.0 completed. If splitting the patches into two parts is what it takes so as to maintain curiosity and interest until this summer, then so be it.

Have some patience.

I don't think OP is being impatient. I had the same feeling of "wait, we're stopping here?" going through the MSQ too. It abruptly comes to a screeching halt as if they only released exactly enough to fulfill the dungeon quota for the patch. I don't feel teased or excited, just slightly confused that they didn't even try to make it less noticeable. Like, okay, I guess I'll twiddle my thumbs until March then... got work to do, other games to play, etc. I remember feeling a lot more amped up around this time in HW.

[Ramesses]

I don't think OP is being impatient. I had the same feeling of "wait, we're stopping here?" going through the MSQ too. It abruptly comes to a screeching halt as if they only released exactly enough to fulfill the dungeon quota for the patch. I don't feel teased or excited, just slightly confused that they didn't even try to make it less noticeable. Like, okay, I guess I'll twiddle my thumbs until March then... got work to do, other games to play, etc. I remember feeling a lot more amped up around this time in HW.

...I see.

Then allow me to juggle your memory.

Almost two months ago during the Fan fest, Yoshi and the Devs clearly let the world know... upfront... that there would be two parts to the 4.5 patch and clearly justified their reasons for proceeding with this direction.

No problem there and most of the player base even cheered to the bloody rooftops.

Fast forward to our present timeline, you have completed part one, reached the obvious cliffhanger... and because you view it as an impasse... you suddenly now have a problem with how the patches have been scheduled into two parts? Sounds awfully like impatience to me.

Your argument would have had much more substance if you had mentioned your dissatisfaction with this schedule and complained back in November.

[Hestzhyen]

...I see.

Then allow me to juggle your memory.

Almost two months ago during the Fan fest, Yoshi and the Devs clearly let the world know... upfront... that there would be two parts to the 4.5 patch and clearly justified their reasons for proceeding with this direction.

No problem there and most of the player base even cheered to the bloody rooftops.

Fast forward to our present timeline, you have completed part one, reached the obvious cliffhanger... and because you view it as an impasse... you suddenly now have a problem with how the patches have been scheduled into two parts? Sounds awfully like impatience to me.

Your argument would have had much more substance if you had mentioned your dissatisfaction with this schedule and complained back in November.

Why are you so aggressive about a minor complaint about story pacing? It's natural to be caught off guard by such a quick end to the MSQ; it's not a crime or even heavy criticism. SE saying "we're gonna do it in two parts" does not naturally lead one to think "they're going to take one patch's worth of story and axe it off as soon as possible to give the required dungeon then save the rest for later". I thought there would be long segments leading up to and following the instance, but we only got the scenes before. If the flow of the narrative had gracefully paused instead of cutting off, I would not have felt much dissonance. As it is, I got out of the dungeon ready to see more talking heads and debates but instead got a quick chat and "To Be Continued". It's not a deal-breaker but it's very obvious they cut it off so they could parcel it out later. Which again, fine, I have plenty of other things to do in the meantime. It left me feeling a bit confused and unsatisfied, but I will be back to finish it when the March patch drops.

[SannaR]

Why are you so aggressive about a minor complaint about story pacing? It's natural to be caught off guard by such a quick end to the MSQ; it's not a crime or even heavy criticism. SE saying "we're gonna do it in two parts" does not naturally lead one to think "they're going to take one patch's worth of story and axe it off as soon as possible to give the required dungeon then save the rest for later". I thought there would be long segments leading up to and following the instance, but we only got the scenes before. If the flow of the narrative had gracefully paused instead of cutting off, I would not have felt much dissonance. As it is, I got out of the dungeon ready to see more talking heads and debates but instead got a quick chat and "To Be Continued". It's not a deal-breaker but it's very obvious they cut it off so they could parcel it out later. Which again, fine, I have plenty of other things to do in the meantime. It left me feeling a bit confused and unsatisfied, but I will be back to finish it when the March patch drops.

Yet this isn't like the first msq to have an abrupt halt and even in the story they say that everyone is getting ready for round two and that we should put Alisaie into the huge bed we're stickin everyone else in. Heck it's not even the hardest hitting abrupt end that we've had at least not in my mind.

[Hestzhyen]

Yet this isn't like the first msq to have an abrupt halt and even in the story they say that everyone is getting ready for round two and that we should put Alisaie into the huge bed we're stickin everyone else in. Heck it's not even the hardest hitting abrupt end that we've had at least not in my mind.

"It's not the worst" isn't a reason to absolve the game of it's little issues. And if this isn't the first time then shouldn't SE know or care how to avoid this by now?

It's not going to stop me from playing or liking the story. But it was really jarring, and SE should do better. They want this content to be meaningful and engaging, so it should be treated with care instead of being lazily chopped off. A few extra scenes to bait more hype wouldn't have hurt.

[SannaR]

"It's not the worst" isn't a reason to absolve the game of it's little issues. And if this isn't the first time then shouldn't SE know or care how to avoid this by now?

It's not going to stop me from playing or liking the story. But it was really jarring, and SE should do better. They want this content to be meaningful and engaging, so it should be treated with care instead of being lazily chopped off. A few extra scenes to bait more hype wouldn't have hurt.

They probably didn't have to avoid it because until this expansion the first part of a patch tended to be top heavy so the major complaint was about the overall patch not just the awkward stop of the msq. The old complaint of basically everything being done within the first two weeks and asking for thing to be more spread out. Now we have it spread out and this time we mostly got story so of course people are going to pick on it's faults more. Course it seems that right now people will complain about anything SE does just because it wasn't what a person wanted to a T. Just look at relics people complained about it asked for how it's done to be changed and they changed it and now people are going no lets go back to the old way.