Level Progression/Questing

[MrKupo]

Modern day leveling makes leveling a journey, not an obstacle.

You're moving around the world more than you would by just standing around grinding. On top of that, leveling has always been a hurdle to keep you striving for more. In Final Fantasy XI, having to level multiple jobs in a slow way was more of an obstacle than anything. Oh, I can't level my main class because I have to stop everything to level it's sub-class? OH BOY!

What I meant was that as of today, MMOs tend to be more about what there is to do at level cap, not about the levels in between. Look at the gripes people had with SWTOR. Quite a few people complained that there wasn't enough content at release as they all raced to level cap, a few I know that had to cancel their subscriptions because there was nothing to do other than PVP. And I don't think it was completely the developers fault here. Bioware does wonders with RPGs and progression. It is the players. Many of us just want to get to the end as quick as possible. I have even seen a few people that don't even read quest logs for half a second. They go to the guy with the exclamation point and immediately click accept as they stack up a countless number of quests on their quest log.

Even if the devs got rid of the streamlined mechanic of telling you exactly what you have to do, the players will be upset at being felt forced to read through all the text that the writers painstakingly put together. Believe it or not, there's a story in that wall of text! We have a mindset now that all that matters in an MMO is the "end-game content".

On a side note, it has never made sense to me how a mother can lose her child and ask you for help, then immediately mark on your map exactly where her child is! If you know exactly where she is, then you didn't lose her! What is a search type quest when you don't actually have to search?