MSQ Needs Further Condensing

[Rasler_Heios]

The game suffers greatly from trying to be both an MMORPG, and single player story focused RPG.

The fact is this game is an MMORPG, with a large focus on end-game content, that being trials, raids, gearing, ect.

Though I agree that there should be improvements in terms to the story presented in the MSQ and the amount of catch-up a player has to do to arrive endgame (in fact I agree to some of the solutions presented)... . the specific above statements are simply not something I agree to.

As SE themselves said so, this is not just an MMORPG, it is a Final Fantasy MMORPG... it is a Final Fantasy game too, a main numbered one to top it... the story needs to be there even if it practically resembles a single player story focused RPG. I think they are already trying to balance both as much as they can though there should be improvements.

[glitteringcosmos]

As SE themselves said so, this is not just an MMORPG, it is a Final Fantasy MMORPG... it is a Final Fantasy game too, a main numbered one to top it... the story needs to be there even if it practically resembles a single player story focused RPG. I think they are already trying to balance both as much as they can though there should be improvements.

THANK YOU. I'm not here to preach and say MSQ is perfection (especially not ARR), but XIV is, before anything else, a Final Fantasy game. People need to get that through their heads. Without the story it wouldn't be what makes FF games so great. And my problem with pruning, even though I acknowledge that ARR is a slog, is that not everyone is going to agree with what gets cut out. For example: the quest "The Warden Works in Mysterious Ways." They cut that from the MSQ for utility, because it was a quest which gave you no significant reward utility wise and made you trek across the span of the map. But I argue that it was one of the quests that SHOULD have been left in, given the emotional impact of that scene and its relation to the story arc then AND the revelations we know now, with post 5.4-o-vision. They're never going to make everyone happy no matter what or how much they prune out, so I say they should just leave it as is now. No more cutting, because inevitably someone, somewhere is going to wish they hadn't done it, and I think leaving it as-is is the fairest way to go about it.

If you don’t wanna play the game buy a skip, don’t wanna spend money play somthing else don’t have the whole game bend at your whim

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