Quote Originally Posted by Kansene View Post
The buildup in late ARR patches was some of my favorite content in the entire game. I loved the politics, the intrigue, and Bloody Banquet is still hands down my favorite cinematic in the entire game.
I honestly wish they'd keep exploring themes of internal politics within Eorzea, make the grand companies and their relations actually matter, and create tension within already explored realms. There's literal expansions worth of content in those themes alone, but I think I'm in the minority of people who'd be excited about it. Daringly exploring new horizons every expansion and discovering 2 new cities you can AFK in after an MSQ revolving around them doesn't seem to be a pattern that will ever really change.
I've completed the entire MSQ, and I have an alt that's in ARR.

While I agree that the story was intriguing and exciting, I am stuck doing fetch quests, talking to people I don't care about, and beating up three random dogs. If I was a brand new player, I would be bored out of my freakin' mind. I know this because I am bored out of my freakin' mind.

The filler is the problem. It's 80% of ARR. Minfillia tells you to go here, you go there, you talk to someone, then that someone has something else for you to do, then you go do that thing, then another person tells you they need something done, and you do that something, and eventually you get to a point where Minfillia calls you back to repeat the process.

An entire expansion would be needed just to cut all of the fat.