Quote Originally Posted by Tommara View Post
I know for a fact that the game loses level 50 players who get bored with having to do 80 more MSQs before they can progress to Heavensward.
I know players who were not bothered by it at all, many actually enjoyed it. Personally I LOVED that there was so much story content to do. It's one of the major things that made me keep playing. Even on alts I have never found the msq to be a slog.

And games lose players all the time. That is normal. You can't please everyone, it's impossible to. Almost everyone has picked up a game and found they didn't like it. For most people it's several games.

The msq isn't going anywhere. You might not like its place in FFXIV but the increasing popularity of this game means many disagree with you. SE are not going to drop a formula that works. It would be stupid to.

Quote Originally Posted by Tommara View Post
There is a lot of free MMO content that is more fun than paying to avoid content that is not fun in an MMO.
Then why not play that instead? Why spend your time trying to advocate for a change when what you want is already elsewhere?

I didn't enjoy Persona 5 due to a primary mechanic it has and I didn't go to forums and essentially say "hey these other games don't have this mechanic I hate, why can't this game be like them instead?" I just went to play those other games. It's a waste of time to complain that a strawberry milkshake doesn't taste like chocolate when you can just have a chocolate milkshake instead.