Quote Originally Posted by Aldath View Post
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.