Why is the Post-MSQ Content so Passive in Endwalker?

[Iscah]

Having the characters do an activity while talking would probably take control away from us even further, since any conversation needs to proceed at the rate of the action.

More text boxes would need to be force-timed and automatically proceeding, and you would get more instances like your complained-about "character does a thing automatically in a cutscene instead of the player piloting it".

[HappyHubris]

Having the characters do an activity while talking would probably take control away from us even further, since any conversation needs to proceed at the rate of the action.

More text boxes would need to be force-timed and automatically proceeding, and you would get more instances like your complained-about "character does a thing automatically in a cutscene instead of the player piloting it".

But right now we're not doing anything either. Adding the appearance of action is better than standing around and talking. And indeed you could have the character perform tasks in real time (say by taking a stroll with a character or completing a task, where each step executed triggers more dialog) while the dialog appears in our chat box.