Massively OP: What content in Final Fantasy XIV is optional?

[Lium]

Interesting article over at Massively OP that takes a look at content that is technically optional, but is absolutely required to progress. Such as raids and old content.

Curious to know what the community's thoughts on this are.

[Stanelis]

It's a video game so everything is optional.

[Yshtola]

g a m i n g
j o u r n a l i s m

[Macleod]

Getting out of bed is technically optional, but absolutely required to continue living.

[TheRealQuah]

Getting out of bed is technically optional, but absolutely required to continue living.

That sounds like a challenge to me!

On another note, I think with the ARR rework that is coming, CT will just be added to the MSQ as forced completion, at that point in the story.

[MrThinker]

That sounds like a challenge to me!

On another note, I think with the ARR rework that is coming, CT will just be added to the MSQ as forced completion, at that point in the story.

Adding this for clarification, they said in the last live letter that CT story will be made required to be completed to begin the 5.3 story. Prior to that, they will simply pop up friendly 'reminders' to notify the player of such a roadblock if they have not cleared it. So players can still have the alternate dialogues in ShB's original story.

I'm not sure if it would be actively required - I read somewhere it would just be a prompt to do it if you reached the end of post-ARR and hadn't got to it yet? Anyway, I could see it being something like the setup for the Four Lords or Sorrow of Werlyt questlines where the MSQ "leads you to the doorstep" of the starting point, highlighting the questgiver and discussing it as something you should do without actually integrating it into the MSQ sequence.

This is exactly what we were told, mandatory only for 5.3 story. Also rather than just once after post-ARR, I believe it was after every set of credits the reminder would pop up if you hadn't completed/started.

[Iscah]

On another note, I think with the ARR rework that is coming, CT will just be added to the MSQ as forced completion, at that point in the story.

I'm not sure if it would be actively required - I read somewhere it would just be a prompt to do it if you reached the end of post-ARR and hadn't got to it yet? Anyway, I could see it being something like the setup for the Four Lords or Sorrow of Werlyt questlines where the MSQ "leads you to the doorstep" of the starting point, highlighting the questgiver and discussing it as something you should do without actually integrating it into the MSQ sequence.

[TheRealQuah]

Adding this for clarification, they said in the last live letter that CT story will be made required to be completed to begin the 5.3 story. Prior to that, they will simply pop up friendly 'reminders' to notify the player of such a roadblock if they have not cleared it. So players can still have the alternate dialogues in ShB's original story.



This is exactly what we were told, mandatory only for 5.3 story. Also rather than just once after post-ARR, I believe it was after every set of credits the reminder would pop up if you hadn't completed/started.

I'm not sure if it would be actively required - I read somewhere it would just be a prompt to do it if you reached the end of post-ARR and hadn't got to it yet? Anyway, I could see it being something like the setup for the Four Lords or Sorrow of Werlyt questlines where the MSQ "leads you to the doorstep" of the starting point, highlighting the questgiver and discussing it as something you should do without actually integrating it into the MSQ sequence.

Hmm. So as of August 11th, CT series is a mandatory part of MSQ before you can complete 2.55.

[Iscah]

Hmm. So as of August 11th, CT series is a mandatory part of MSQ before you can complete 2.55.

Have you got a source for that? The most recent thing I heard was still that it's not going to be forced and you can still play up to and through Shadowbringers before being forced to do it. I thought that was coming from the live letter, but I didn't watch it myself so can't confirm.

[Theodric]

I always figured that if someone's interest in a game is genuine, then they'd be inclined to explore as much of the game as possible.