Quote Originally Posted by Morticous View Post
At least someone around here feels the same way I do. I said the same sort of thing a few months ago. NPCs should show up in certain areas at certain times of the day/night. The people at the tables should actually... TALK to each other.... I like your idea about finding the shop owner fishing on a Saturday or something. Just finding NPCs standing for thousands of hours is lifeless and boring. Oh and the "!".... way to take the fun out of finding a mission/quest (and the argument about just looking them up on the internet is a bad one.... It adds to the search, its a quest of its own). Anyway, there are some pretty simple things they could do to make this game a bit more lively and less dull... maybe they will do some of this in the future.

Outtro.
I think the "!" is more for the casuals who don't have time to go looking around from NPC to NPC to find out which quest-giver is the right one. While I agree that people could just look it up on the net, I think this is one thing that isn't exactly a big deal. Plus, we know they won't get rid of it at this point. What they COULD do is have secret quest givers that don't have a "!" above their heads to reward those who take the time to find them.