Quote Originally Posted by Miles064 View Post
Again, you have not been a faceless hero for some time now in WoW. The last 3 expacs at the very least. Hell in legion you were the leader of your class with a one of a kind weapon(Ashbringer for Ret pally). Npcs call you by title(commander,champion of the horde/alliance,archmage) rather then name likely due to server limitations. That doesn't seem much different then what FF has.
Then that's a design change theyre moving into, not one they were starting with. And this still doesnt change certain aspects because most of the game treats you as a faceless hero. If theyre trying to reverse direction by adopting some of FFXIVs set up, Im not opposed to it. But I dunno if thta would make the difference. Particularly with Gating turned off. Meaning, if Legion I dont care about the events and continue to just lvl, I can skip the back half of it and hit the newest xpac without resolving anything. That makes your actions less important. The world spins on and on regardless of whether you do anything. That isnt the case in FFXIV with the MSQ.


As for the movie, cutscene, it boils down to some of that. But it might be simpler (in some aspects) is start combining quests. For example, Meridianum and Praetorium could be combined, particularly since Merdianum is literally you just breaking into the facility and killing Whats-er-face. You could move her boss fight a lot earlier, remove the whole bit about having to take down the Shield towers, prop it up as it's just a heavily fortified base, and you just cut down a lot of time right there.