Quote Originally Posted by Gullis View Post
I do wish they would give us more actual gameplay for sure.
Kind of a monkey's paw situation.

Either the gameplay is going to be stepping in a purple puddle and using 3 GCDs, a story fight that takes 60 seconds, or it's going to be a full on sequence like In From The Cold. 'The Community' hated In From The Cold with a passion, despite it being the best bit of storytelling of the MSQ over the last decade. I don't think we'll ever see that again, and if even if we did, SE will go overboard like they always do and half of them will end up sub-par.

I'm only mildly discontent with FFXIV being a feature-barren visual novel. But they've gotta hit gold every time to make it work.

The biggest sin of Dawntrail's MSQ was how stretched out it was. It comes from having a pretty loose idea of what constitutes an expansion. In other games, especially back in the day, an expansion was a huge systems change along with the aesthetics. In FFXIV it's just the aesthetics, so they feel like they have to keep increasing and increasing the length and scope of the story even when the only story they have is on-par with a free update beast tribe quest.