Hi Punainen,

I used to see you around Camp Bluefog while we all waited for Atomos to appear, although we never spoke. ^^;

I hope quest-based leveling will be one new option while keeping many of the options we already had. But while quest leveling sounds nice, repetitive quests alone are just as boring as anything else for many of the reasons you stated.

To pass the time, I've been playing PSO2 since the End of an Era event, and can echo many of the things you wrote about Tera. I quickly got bored with doing the same quests over and over and over again. Unless my LS friends are around, I have almost no motivation to do anything after playing for a just few weeks.

Even FFXIV 1.0 had a huge variety of things to do if one wasn't focused on getting to endgame as quickly as possible, and I could always find something to keep myself occupied even if playing solo. Class quests. Crafting and gathering, plus their own quests. Various side quests from NPCs. I played practically every day for over 2 years and never ran out of things to do. In fact, when 1.0 ended I still had many things unfinished.

PSO2 is not a bad game. There are many good things about it, just as I'm sure Tera has good points too. But I find it very shallow compared to the FFXIV we had.