New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[FoxyAreku]

Honey, I'm the one that decides if I play this game or not-- not you. The same goes for any player that decides they aren't interested in the crappy fedexing through six phases to get to the present day.

If Square feels so passionately that everyone needs to do every quest, then they can make them worth doing. Until then, those players are well within their right to call a crappy series of quests a crappy series of quests.

If you want cutscenes, replace with youtube.

You get offended really easily if you took what I said as 'you shouldn't play this game', "Honey".

Work on that fragile ego first off, second off I was simply proposing that if you don't enjoy the main draw of the entire game, then it may simply not be for you. I wouldn't recommend Sekiro to someone that doesn't like challenging games, just as I wouldn't recommend FFXIV to someone who doesn't want a story driven experience. I'd recommend them Guild Wars or WoW instead, as they do the endgame focus quite a bit better. If you approach this game like those then you're going to be out of stuff to do within a week and be severely disappointed. I speak from experience, here. But, if you REALLY need to reach endgame ASAP, whether it be because playing with friends in the whole 4 raid fights we get every half a year or whatever is your only reason for playing, then the skip potion option IS ALREADY available to you, and there is nothing wrong with using that.

That aside, I actually don't completely disagree with you as I also stated in my previous post. There is a LOT of filler that needs a trim along the course of the plot, and I would be 100% for undoing needless nerfs like to Steps of Faith or other fights so they are more engaging, but I don't believe that will ever happen since this community tends to whine if anything requires more than two button presses to complete.

If I may ask how does having the MSQ be optional impact you negatively?

It doesn't, nor did I ever say it did, you may need to work on your reading comprehension if you thought I was saying it effected me. I'm just in favor of people enjoying their experience with the game. If the game isn't for you, then it's not for you, but there are plenty of games that are!

[Awha]

It doesn't, nor did I ever say it did, you may need to work on your reading comprehension if you thought I was saying it effected me. I'm just in favor of people enjoying their experience with the game. If the game isn't for you, then it's not for you, but there are plenty of games that are!

Was simply asking a question since it seems odd to me for someone to make the statement that a game may not be for them if they wish to bypass the MSQ. So I wanted to know how making the MSQ optional would negatively impact you. Since if you were truly all for people enjoying their experience making the MSQ optional as you said would have no impact so it would be a win all around, more players get to enjoy the game in the way they would prefer.

I never did say that you said it would negatively impact you, was simply a a question.

You mean besides changing the entire structure of the game which is heavily story based which people would know if they weren’t skipping cut scenes?

It will still be the story you love just optional for those that do not wish to take part in it.

[yukiiyuki]

If the game isn't for you, then it's not for you, but there are plenty of games that are!

I have a brilliant idea, let's just tell everyone who would like to play a game but can't bare with ARR quest chain go play TESO or any another MMO. Like that our community will surely help game that we love!
That's how business works, right? Just tell that product that someone wanted to buy from you is not "that person" thing!

[Vercinotrix]

I have a brilliant idea, let's just tell everyone who would like to play a game but can't bare with ARR quest chain go play TESO or any another MMO. Like that our community will surely help game that we love!
That's how business works, right? Just tell that product that someone wanted to buy from you is not "that person" thing!

We also shouldn't change the core aspects of our game and its experience to cater to people from other MMOs either. In the end it's up the developers, and I personally don't have a problem with skip pots or if they cleaned up the MSQs for ARR however changing our game solely for new players or people jumping ship from one MMO to another is a bad idea. I can point to a prime example of that happening, it's called WoW.

[yukiiyuki]

What cores will change if they "clear" and "optimize" early msq quests? How it will affect you directly? You couldn't sniff Chocobo at your alt anymore? Or maybe finding kids at orange circles will ruin experience that you already had. Reworking old stuff is a good thing, but not completely erasing it, just optimizing for easier use. Upgrading old textures, adding new AA, teaching players about their rotation, adding voice lines to scenes without sound. Early start of game need some kind of rework, but not what cataclysm did, just some major improvements and QoL changes.