@dev team ->> Thanks for bringing back party grinding, -really-

[Rhianu]

I don't really think those chain of quests with scrolling text lines of some anecdotal fictional experience about the npc constitute a storyline or lore at least not of the scale that FF fans expect.

Personally I feel the same about the quests currently in the game. The leves aren't so bad because you only have to read them once. Seems to me that most people never read any of that stuff and I'm sure it's their choice not to but those same 'lazy' people will watch a cutscene or read the 50 quest for their class (if there was one).

My point is storyline and lore should occur at significant moments where the player is engaged. I really don't feel like i'm learning anything about the world in these little insignificant quests, even when i read it's just not a significant moment, like a raid or an end-game quest, or a significant main story-line happening in Eorzea.

WoW style quests may not always be quite as cinematic as what FF fans are accustomed to from the offline FF games, but they're a hell of a lot better than the worthless, piece of shit Guild Leve system that Hiromichi Tanaka and friends came up with.

Plus, you've got to remember that an MMORPG needs to have a lot more content than an offline RPG does, which means the developers need to be able to create large amounts of content in a very short amount of time and with an extremely limited budget. I'm sure we would all love it if every single quest could have a beautiful, pre-rendered cinematic cutscene with voice acting and amazing action sequences, but the realities of game development simply make that impractical, infeasible, and unrealistic.

Besides, if you'd ever actually played WoW, you'd know that there are plenty of quests that feel very significant and really add a lot of weight and depth to the story of the game. Yes, there are certainly "filler" quests along the way that aren't really very important to the overall story, but to say that EVERY quest in WoW is insignificant to the story is just sheer ignorance.