I believe I finally understood why some people have issues with Dawntrail

[Aldath]

I see, I thought it was because of the awful amateurish writing, the horrible pacing, the insufferable Mary Sue being shoved in my face every five minutes or how old favorite characters have been completely lobotomized, but I see now that I was wrong and actually it's just because of fetch quests which comprise less than 5% of the time spent are mildly annoying.

Minigames would solve every problem, it is true.

Thanks for opening my eyes to this.

Because that way if you skip the god awful story at least there works be an actual game. OP is just using minigames as an example.

You can skip the horrid plot and still have to deal with hours of walking without anything interesting happening in between. Skipping the cutscenes you still have 2 to 3 hours of what amounts to nothing before the first dungeon.

[Tethan]

Because that way if you skip the god awful story at least there works be an actual game. OP is just using minigames as an example.

You can skip the horrid plot and still have to deal with hours of walking without anything interesting happening in between. Skipping the cutscenes you still have 2 to 3 hours of what amounts to nothing before the first dungeon.

The thing is that the MSQ is the major draw of the launch period. Why do you think the raids aren't released until later? To give people time to complete the story. The story takes precedence over everything else in this game.

How much of the budget is put towards the story? The writing, animations, voiceworks etc etc. A lot, I bet. This is BIG deal and FFXIV is billed as THE story focused MMO, if skipping is optimal, indeed the only tolerable way to play, something has gone very, very wrong. I've been around for every launch since Stormblood, I have never seen anything like this.

I'm all for improving the MSQ gameplay, but "just skip" is not an acceptable solution.

[Aldath]

The thing is that the MSQ is the major draw of the launch period. Why do you think the raids aren't released until later? To give people time to complete the story. The story takes precedence over everything else in this game.

How much of the budget is put towards the story? The writing, animations, voiceworks etc etc. A lot, I bet. This is BIG deal and FFXIV is billed as THE story focused MMO, if skipping is optimal, indeed the only tolerable way to play, something has gone very, very wrong. I've been around for every launch since Stormblood, I have never seen anything like this.

I'm all for improving the MSQ gameplay, but "just skip" is not an acceptable solution.

And I agree with you. What I suggest is just a band aid solution.
I believe a good game with a bad plot still remains a good game, but it's true we're paying for the full package and they expect us to care being that we spend a lot of time in them.

I just hope this is a wanna up call for both the fan base and the dev team.

[TKOtheKDR]

Because that way if you skip the god awful story at least there works be an actual game. OP is just using minigames as an example.

You can skip the horrid plot and still have to deal with hours of walking without anything interesting happening in between. Skipping the cutscenes you still have 2 to 3 hours of what amounts to nothing before the first dungeon.

Those are the words of a de facto Wuk apologist.

Yes, let's skip the main reason we've all just paid ~$60...

/s