Quote Originally Posted by magitekLuna View Post
what was they thinking?? its easy. they want to create a situation where lots of people hate it and they don't need to make more if it. the quest line was a pure joy a 11/10. best quest line in game to date. stupid to perfection. but its have no place to be part of the relic. so much people just skipped it and missed out on the best quest ever. over all i think yoshi lose his frip on reality in 6.x , not one thing you can say was well made . some part in them over all was but not the hole thing.
Personally, I would say for me, practically all of it has been "well made", though I haven't tried IS or Criterion/Variant yet. I thoroughly enjoyed the MSQ, loved the music, loved the world-building from the Role Quests (heck, even my least-favorite role of Physical DPS had me getting into the story for it), I've been smiling at all the FF4 references finally making their way into FFXIV, and the list goes on.

What I don't understand is why people seem to be saying there didn't need to be a Manderville requirement for the relic solely because the link them was so minor in Step One...there is still much more to go with the relics, and plenty of opportunities to see them much more deeply tied to the Manderville quests, which would make the link much more apparent.