These quests suck.

[Majidah]

The regular sidequests aren't meant to be these epic quests that have you doing new things. That's what the class quests, main quests, and GC quests are for. The sidequests are just quick little things for some extra xp, loot, and lore. Simple and easy for the coders to make and for the players to do.

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3 words: star onion brigade.

/10char

[Ruri]

This should be an interesting thread...

[Urthdigger]

FFXI had those too. And they definitively were on a different level. So I don't believe this to be acceptable.

You're right, FFXI did have quests like this. Though, I dunno, I kinda feel that learning that building a bridge requires hurling a lalafell to the other side is a better reward than getting a simple thank you from a lady trying to cook in Bastok Markets.

[Raldo]

Though, I dunno, I kinda feel that learning that building a bridge requires hurling a lalafell to the other side is a better reward than getting a simple thank you from a lady trying to cook in Bastok Markets.

What the... what quest is this?

[Urthdigger]

What the... what quest is this?

Bridging the Gap. Or did you mean A Flash in the Pan and Gourmet? Because I hear those quests are pretty epic.

[Raldo]

I meant the FFXIV one. Huh, one of the many I must've clicked through because blah blah blah.

[Arcell]

Oh man, this topic again.

I don't mind the side-quests not having cutscenes or voice acting. If the main story does, I'm fine with that. Even without the voice acting a lot of the quests have been rather compelling. If people took the time to read them they'd know the reasons behind all of the objectives and they'd seem less boring.

Also you can't really compare a quest from an offline single-player FPS with heavy environmental interaction with that of an MMO.

[Urthdigger]

I meant the FFXIV one. Huh, one of the many I must've clicked through because blah blah blah.

Yeah, it's probably a bad idea to do that with most of the FFXIV quests. A lot of them are plenty fascinating. Such as the guard who's lost his diary with some... ah, sensitive musings in it. And then the sequel to it, where one of his partners finds a page you'd missed, and thinks it's a love letter to her!

[Arcell]

Yeah, it's probably a bad idea to do that with most of the FFXIV quests. A lot of them are plenty fascinating. Such as the guard who's lost his diary with some... ah, sensitive musings in it. And then the sequel to it, where one of his partners finds a page you'd missed, and thinks it's a love letter to her!

Or how they hinted at this whole Dalamud thing months before they made it official (1.16 I believe). Everyone was all like "OMFG!" and I was like "Yeah, you didn't know?"

[Vaen]

As Urthdigger is getting at, the quest dialogue for FFXIV is actually quite good. Granted, it's a wall-o-text and that's not ideal, it's definitely the BEST MMO quest text I've ever read, and I've played EQ, WoW, EQ2, Aion, and many other MMOs.

Obviously a LOT of care was put into the accents and colloquialisms, humor, lore, and story of the quest dialogs, even for these minor sidequests the OP is complaining about.

Truthfully, I often skip over the wall-o-texts too, but I try to take the time to read them as much as possible in FFXIV and usually it's well worth it.

p.s. Try to look for all the very cleverly hidden Star Wars and LOTR references in a lot of the quest text! They make it really subtle so it's not glaring or obnoxious like WoW's cultural references, and it's usually quite witty.