ARR needs two simple fixes until an actual revamp

[Aelin_Ashryver]

So something I am noticing is not only WoW players who come here but long time veteran salty FF14 telling LITERALLY everyone to boost passed ARR. I find this to be incredibly stupid as you skip some of the most important story aspect in the game and the actual introduction to the MMO but it has happened. As we know they trimmed roughly 30% of the ARR grind but we need further changes until we can get an actual full revamp of it.

1. Voice acting. It is seriously lacking. Some of your FF14 players are actual voice actors and will probably do this for free. Just add it already.

2. Reduce the amount of teleporting. Do this by deleting quest that are effectively fetch quest. This makes the world seem small and it is pretty obvious to notice.

These two fixes would help a lot.

Have you done ARR since they trimmed it down? I am currently on level 46ish MSQ on my alt and I can say it is MILES better than it was, much less fetching pointlessly it feels like. Overall the pace feels much nicer so far and I am really enjoying it. The reason people suggest to Asmon to boost is because the guy doesn't care about story, he has said as much in his streams. If you are a player that doesn't like story and only cares for the raiding aspect. Then boosting past level 50 where the combat is slower is not such a bad idea for that individual.

[GeminiReed]

Have you done ARR since they trimmed it down? I am currently on level 46ish MSQ on my alt and I can say it is MILES better than it was, much less fetching pointlessly it feels like.

Sure they trimmed some irrelevant quests and tightened things up a bit but it's still a huge slog.

Paid skips are not the answer. That screams louder than any words that this is irritating by design to make people pay additional money. This is not acceptable.

[Pirana1]

Sure they trimmed some irrelevant quests and tightened things up a bit but it's still a huge slog.

Paid skips are not the answer. That screams louder than any words that this is irritating by design to make people pay additional money. This is not acceptable.

I only started playing this game roughly five weeks ago, and if it wasn't for the story skip on an alt I leveled up, I would have un-subbed. The purchased story skip is certainly not the answer, but one has to ask themselves, time v money, so for me it was worth paying the $11.00 to skip that mundane ARR quest chain, the portion after the two raids, when the xp drops from roughly 45k down to 5k. I know all about the profession swapping, but I'm also not a fan of having one alt. Something certainly does need to be done about that ARR wall, unlikely it'll happen, simply because people do like having alts, it's only eleven dollars and it's an easy money grab for SE.

On topic and regarding the voice over. Do some research on what it costs SWTOR to develop that game. I played there from Beta until last summer and if I recall, the game itself, cost close to $300 million to develop, so the voice acting probably was somewhere in the ballpark of fifty million, give or take. Almost every aspect of that game has voice overs. It's highly unlikely FF14 will go that route. Only a hypothesis though.