Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
what you are talking about is not story elements, but gameplay elements. Ffxi was meant to be a more immersive, less solo focused game. the point of something like kazham keys, limit breaks, etc was to create experiences that players had together to achieve certain goals, it was sometimes rough, i was the guy who needed to hunt limit break items for days while other people got their loot and left, but it did the job of creating shared multi player world content.

but thats a totally different discussion. You are focused on how difficult it was to see the story, but im not saying to make ffxiv as difficult as ffxi, i'm saying allow people to get to what content they are most interested in.

you know how you hated all that multi player group stuff getting in the way of story in ffxi? well here, there are many players annoyed that all that story stuff is getting in the way of their multi playet group stuff.

all i am saying, make both player types happy, and the ones in the grey area.
And my point is you can't make everyone happy, by doing the things proposed here it will make people that are happy with how the game currently is very unhappy, it comes to a point where demanding these changes is unreasonable and would require rebooting the game again like they did from 1.0 -> 2.0 if people don't like how this game does they story they have options, they can either skip the cut scenes. pay for jump potions to skip to Stormblood/level 60 though this will probably be skipping to Shadowbringers/70 soon, they can skip the cut scenes, of they can go play something else.

Quote Originally Posted by SilverObi View Post
MPK would usually happen by accident (remember Garlaige entrance camps?) and if you include the LFP process into that three hours then I could see your point particularly if you were a less desired job like thf or drg. While it was annoying when things happened, it usually encouraged communication within the party. Unless they were an ass someone would let the party know if they were leaving within 30-60 minutes. Man I miss talking in parties lol but I digress. XI was/is very much a product of its era but for each thing it did wrong or poorly, it did a lot more right. Same could be said for XIV honestly. I don't understand the sheer outrage and extreme takes in so many of these threads.
Sometimes they would say in advance and I would be able to find someone, sometimes even if they say in advance it wasn't possible to find someone in time, ,many other times someone would just leave.