Quote Originally Posted by Ammokkx View Post
because



as for why CT is mandatory, if you'd bothered to actually watch the 5.3 cutscenes, the ending of 5.3 literally can not function unless the ending of the crystal tower raid is reached. Local best boi needs to be taking his nap or else we can't wake him up.




Listen, man, I don't know what to tell you, but you've admitted to not even watching the story of ShB because you think it's "dogshit". Everyone's entitled to your opinion, but if you're going to be this disinterested in the going-ons of one of the game's big selling points, you're not an authority on the subject.

Quests are there because they're telling a story. The ones who didn't advance the story got cut. It's as simple as that. Besides, if each quest took 15 minutes as you say, and they trimmed 20 quests, that's 300 minutes of time cut out, or 6 hours. That's quite a fair amount of filler quests to be cut.

I'm also not asking you to be well versed in the lore, but you fail to have a basic grip on the simple facts of the story laid out in front of you. I'm not asking you what the 6 elements of Eorzae are and which align with Umbral and Astral. I'm asking you "how did 3/4 ascians die on-screen" because it directly relates to a point you were making.

They cut what unquestionably needed to be cut. That's the long and short of it. To argue they needed to cut more, you need to argue why some sections of the story should be cut out. A story you, I'm sorry to say, don't have nearly enough of a solid grip on to make any kind of judgement call.
It's comical you say I don't have authority to make a judgement call on something, when you don't have authority to tell me I do or don't. I also didn't use a swear word, so the quotation marks aren't needed around your own defining of my view point. I skipped a lot of the cut scenes because they are just run on and ultimately in the way and could be more concise, and less in the way. Which is a MASSIVE reason why they should be trimmed down. My opinion might seem like dreadful to someone who gets excited to watch Game of Thrones or whatever is hip with the younguns but, reality is if I'm paying to play this game, and I feel like something needs to be addressed, I've been given a forum to share/discuss/be as valid/be as stupid/ as I can be and I've got just as much authority as someone who could recite every word from the MSQ and all it's little lore niblets. I don't feel like XIV makes wise use of it's available resources in terms of story/lore/capabilities. I don't need to be a walking Encyclopedia Eorzea to state I feel the MSQ needs massive pruning still.