Suggestion for 2.0: Make quest rewards commensurate to time spent

[Anonymoose]

"Rewards commensurate to time spent" is impossible, to be fair. We're investing 35+ hours a week pretending to do things in exchange for imaginary currency. All we're really hoping for is satisfaction with reconciling that; because at this point what's going on is we're investing 35+ hours a week and getting an imaginary kick in the jewels.

I don't even want exp from quests to be honest. I want scrolls, rare/ex items, maps, or other things.

No thanks to the maps/scrolls. Getting around and doing my job are very basic things - I'm glad they're basic features of levelling and existing in Eorzea in XIV. Sinking time to get those basics are archaic mechanics of a time gone by when play needed to be artificially extended between CD-ROM releases. We now have broadband and digital downloads and instantaneous distribution of content via direct patching.

In fact, half of the things I see people clammoring over for "difficulty" and "experience" are just nostalgic whinings for anachronistic mechanics that were only in place to sink your time or act as a digital Skinner Box to ensure subscription/addiction.

[Elexia]

No thanks to the maps/scrolls. Getting around and doing my job are very basic things - I'm glad they're basic features of levelling and existing in Eorzea in XIV. Sinking time to get those basics are archaic mechanics of a time gone by when play needed to be artificially extended between CD-ROM releases.

Irony: Yoshida is in favor of and will be implementing a fog of war system...which is essentially the same as going to a vendor and buying a map or going to a dungeon and opening a chest.

Hell FoW is more work than a quest to unlock maps/portions of maps.

[Anonymoose]

Irony: Yoshida is in favor of and will be implementing a fog of war system...which is essentially the same as going to a vendor and buying a map or going to a dungeon and opening a chest.

Hell FoW is more work than a quest to unlock maps/portions of maps.

Strangely I'm okay with fogmaps. It's a nice balance - even though you don't know where to go at first, once you've been somewhere you know where the hell it is. No wandering Beaucadine Glacier looking for the same ramp 50 times while you wait for a damn frost turnip NPC to show up - and yet you do have to work for it.

On top of that it encourages exploration -- it's not a terrible compromise if he doesn't want us to know where we're going for free. (Though, let's be honest, it's a technologically advanced society and our job exists entirely to go out and kill things. Even lore-wise we should probably have those maps pre-game lol)

[Anonymoose]

EWWWW accidental double post instead of editing my quote box ><

Sorry...

so does this mean quests could be repeatable and also be a source of xp now?

Actually, I'm pretty good with that, too, lmao. It's basically the same as grinding - time in, battle out, gotta learn to rotate your new abilities if you want to win... but SLIGHTLY less mind-numbing. Unless it's just meant to be spammed, in which case they might as well just add 500 new guildleves and call it a day because that's all it'd be, in essence.