Yoshi P - Your next live letter, DT msq and the damage to the brand

[royox]

I'm 99% sure the MSQ would have been received a bit more positively if there was more gameplay on it. More gameplay than "go here to speak to WL, go there to keep speaking with WL, come back to the first point to speak with WL, talk to this NPC about WL, come back to WL and tell her what the NPC said..." lemme press combat buttons! Throw me into a LOT of Solo duties with my WoL and the scions. Make it like a real FF not just the visual novel part. This is FIRST a videogame and the only times the MSQ made me do things was in 4 dungeons and 3 trials...that's like 2 hours of total gameplay in a 40h MSQ. Ridiculous.

[Aldath]

I'm 99% sure the MSQ would have been received a bit more positively if there was more gameplay on it. More gameplay than "go here to speak to WL, go there to keep speaking with WL, come back to the first point to speak with WL, talk to this NPC about WL, come back to WL and tell her what the NPC said..." lemme press combat buttons! Throw me into a LOT of Solo duties with my WoL and the scions. Make it like a real FF not just the visual novel part. This is FIRST a videogame and the only times the MSQ made me do things was in 4 dungeons and 3 trials...that's like 2 hours of total gameplay in a 40h MSQ. Ridiculous.

I think there's plenty of people who are growing tired of the narrative style of FFXIV, as in, over dependence of living expository dialogue with long stretches of walking in between... But I don't think that's ever gonna change. First, it seems that the Japanese audience has zero issues with it, and we know they're the only voice that matters. Second if CBU3 has left something clear is that they should remove the C from the company name, because they're everything but Creative. They haven't tried anything new since HW