I totally love this game, but...

[Angelhearth]

All the cut-scenes, the obscene number of quests, quests even to just get a cut-scene so you can get access to dungeons. And even at lvl 80 the MSQ goes on and on and on and on. Even WoW wasn't this crazy with quests. Can you relax, please, or do the Japanese players really love this so much that it's necessary?If so, can't you just give us an upgrade package to get ridd of all these friggin' quests, like the upgrade to lvl 70? I want to play this game as a crafter and gatherer, but I'm being forced to play a fighting class to the very end to be allowed to gather and craft, at least if I want flying in Norvrandt, which I now, finally got, after, as I said, an obscene number of quests, and dungeons and quests and dungeons. I'm completely exhausted. You reach 80, fine, now just open up all the rest of the dungeons and raids and what not, so those interested in it can do that, and those not, can do what they are interested in, don't force the players to play the game according to a specified philosophy.

Now, let the ranting begin.

[Baxcel]

FF14 is a story driven MMORPG.. hell every final fantasy is story driven.. thats why people play FF games.. im sorry if your only here for the combat.. because that's not even 2nd on the list for this game.

[Angelhearth]

FF14 is a story driven MMORPG.. hell every final fantasy is story driven.. thats why people play FF games.. im sorry if your only here for the combat.. because that's not even 2nd on the list for this game.

You didn't even read my comment, did you? I'm NOT here for the combat, I'm here for the crafting/gathering, AND I really love the game. It's just that it's TOO MUCH. Everything in their correct dosages and things are great, but this game passes that, by far. It's like going to a restaurant and ordering the very best on their menu and finding that the entrée was too salty, the main dish too heavy, and the dessert to sweet, so an otherwise magnificent meal was totally destroyed, and you are left with a feeling of total disaster, because the chef just didn't know when to stop.

[Payadopa]

Yeah, must be such a burden to play an MMO that has content. I don't understand people sometimes.

[Angelhearth]

Yeah, must be such a burden to play an MMO that has content. I don't understand people sometimes.

Likewise. If you don't agree, why not just say so, without insulting? As I wrote, I love the game, it's just that I think it goes over board when it comes to quests, and especially cut-scenes.

[Kuroka]

See and i feel we got way too few, wed need more - and more stuff locked behind fights. And the skip potions are the worst...

[Angelhearth]

See and i feel we got way too few, wed need more - and more stuff locked behind fights. And the skip potions are the worst...

At least you didn't insult me.

[Kuroka]

No need to, but still its frustrating that way - it sucks you cant have some progress without it, but at the same time, to me its too few. Id love more dungoens like the castrum, or Baldesions Arsenal...

[Angelhearth]

No need to, but still its frustrating that way - it sucks you cant have some progress without it, but at the same time, to me its too few. Id love more dungoens like the castrum, or Baldesions Arsenal...

More dungeons isn't a problem, but waiting, and waiting, and waiting, through a dialog I'm not interested in, that takes forever, because they have these pauses when handing over stuff or my character speaks, that's killing me. If there was a way to turn off all non-important cut-scenes and dialogues, that would be another thing, but when you use just as much time going through the dialogue (yeah, I know it can be cut short with a mouse-click), or getting into the cut-scene, and then cancelling it, as the quest itself, then things has definitively gone over-board. Just give the quest, and if I need to read up on it, which happens, then I can go to the quest and look, I don't need a long dialogue that I won't remember 1 minute later. I get that it's story driven, but they're overdoing it, that's my point, those interested in the story can rerad the quest, or we can get, as I suggested, the possibility to cut the dialogue, if we choose so.

[EONX_]

I mean, this isn't a crafting focused game. Yes, end-game often does require crafting of some sort (be it acquiring pots, food, temporary gear, etc) but this isn't a crafting focused game, it's about the combat and the story. It's great that you love crafting and all but you have to understand and accept that you'll eventually have to do combat to get through the story. If you genuinely don't care about the cutscenes, then skip the ones you can. If you don't care about the dialogue, skip it. The story in this expansion (imo) was a fair bit shorter than previous expansions and was overall quicker to get through if you were being efficient (especially when compared to ARR). Asking to reduce even more content just because you don't want to do it isn't right. Post launch of SHB has been very dry in terms of how much content we've been getting, we don't need less of it.

If you really dislike the fighting in this game that much, perhaps find a different role to play or a different job. Story progression is going to continue being a requirement to unlock new content.