I recently logged into the game again after quite a long break, I didn't picture the game as something really fun. I like the environments and the atmosphere but there was nothing really keeping me in-game.

I appeared in Limsa and started doing my usual stuff, I grabbed some leves, then I hired a new retainer since i'd learned that we were allowed more than one, and organised my sellables into there, then as I was running over to the market wards I saw a symbol I hadn't seen before, the quest symbol.

The quest I was given was to go and spread false rumours about a cake which infatuates the eater with the chef. I found the writing to be entertaining, although the fact that the markers would only appear on an exclusive map, one at a time, made it a bit tedious to navigate.

On my travels during that quest I found loads more quests, including some that took me out of town, so I finished everything I could within town and then ran out of town to do the quests out there. They all involved defeating monsters but one of them had it's own instance in a cave, and they all felt fun and were aimed just about right difficulty wise.

While I was out there I also did my leves, then I tp'd back to town and handed in the quests, and once again the writing here was pretty good. I felt like i'd learned things about Eorzea that I didn't know before, and I can see now that the dev team are starting to make good on their promise to make Final Fantasy XIV fun. Also they're giving the NPC's some character, also they mention places in the world that we didn't know about before.

I went to Gridania and found a whole new set of quests, and I can only assume that Ul'Dah has them too, so i'm pretty happy, these quests are highly entertaining and they compliment guildleves really well. We just need a constant stream of them I guess.

Looking at the planned updates such as the job system changes and the grand companies, new raid style dungeons and OTHER STUFF, i'd say the future is starting to look quite bright for Final Fantasy XIV. Just by adding these quests, they've made the design of the towns shine that much more, so with more and more additions, the existing content will also begin to feel less empty.