Quote Originally Posted by Seif View Post
My thoughts exactly. These flashing arrows everywhere make listening to NPCs completely pointless and they take away all exploration and adventure from the game.

Also they ruin the community. There is nothing on the game for us to figure out or talk about here. The depth is skin deep.
Compare this to Monster Hunter 3 for example that has an awesome community and it's not even an MMO. Mh threads are stock full of strategies and crafting knowledge.

None of that is in XIV as absolutely every activity boils down to:

1) follow the marker
2) hit the action button until the activity be it combat or cooking is over


Repeat the same thing endlessly.
You might want to wait until you actually do some of the more challenging content to make such accusations.

I've recruited quite few new players in the past few days and unless you come from FFXI and hunt down Wiki articles the game does not exactly hold your hand. It could use a little more direction on what to do but certainly not the overboard quest hub to quest hub you find in say Tera.