SE, no effort anywhere lately.

[CStrife912]

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Sadly it isn't a fact it has the least engaging gameplay for an msq...that's impossible to say without a survey across every MMO player group so it just falls under opinion. I know what you're saying but it is at the end of the day your opinion. I have played visual novels and I don't really consider it the same, I get some aspects are like that but its Final Fantasy every entry has people standing around and talking yet they are all RPGs unless you're saying the franchise as a whole is a visual novel it is not.

You do play your class in the game, sometimes the solo duties require you to use your toolkit completely sometimes less so but you can't 1 button your way to victory. Also if we go from the beginning the classes are told behind their own story where they go through each ability each sort of quest you get. I think you misunderstand we are not blind defending the game and I could list a ton of things I have issue with but what we are talking about here isn't really a core problem. It has always been stated the game is an RPG first MMO second. Or in some cases its story first gameplay second and it must have worked musn't it if people are still here or more players coming in.

In regards to the coop aspect yes it would be nice if my mates could share my quest however I believe this is for one sort of 'copout' thing. That being in WoW your character really isn't that important to the grand scheme of things. You just help when an issue arises and you're constantly thrown aside and no one remembers your deeds. FF14 you are the main character for better or worse (the constant OH ITS THE WOL WE ARE SAVED does get annoying) but it wouldn't make sense in that your the main character environment to have you and your mate coop a story quest. However this doesn't mean they couldn't trial this with the dailies and weekly quests as a testing ground to get more people doing stuff together.
Also sadly to its own detriment it ain't Final Fantasy unless we kill some form of *insert god here*