Quote Originally Posted by SnowTiger View Post
Some people like grind parties. Sure, it's repetitive, but so is like every FPS, RPG, or sports game on the market.

And those 'quests' were far more annoying to me personally... In a grind party, I can just relax, play, and have fun with a party of other players. Quests in this game are kind of tiresome, with lots of running around and npc spam that I really don't care about, plus overly weak mobs that are really just boring and not challenging at all.

And quests in certain other mmo's I've played were just horrible. Rift and WoW for example. There was no parties, people just quest grinded... And my god it was awful... Run all over the place through crummy looking areas and with crummy game mechanics, get aggro'd by like a billion trash mobs EVERY EFFING STEP, and it's like, they're just ****ing strong enough to kill you if you try to run through a pack of them... And of course, every inch of the zone is covered with packs of them... But they aren't anywhere near strong enough to be worth fighting, nor are any of the quest mobs.

To sum it up, it sucked ass. It sucked a LOT of ass. I loved FFXI, and I'm so thankful there is another FF MMO that is a successor to XI, because I've tried other MMO's... They all use that ****-eating quest grind system, and they all sucked ass to play. Needless to say I didn't stick around very long in them.

So, my best advice? If you're not interested in a game that offers a different niche style, go play one of the other games that offer billions of tedious quests. Because believe it or not, there are players who don't want a game built around that trash. We're a niche, sure... But even a niche crowd deserves at least one game per decade.

And honestly, I don't understand how quest grinding got so popular to begin with... Wtf is the point of playing an MMO if you're gonna solo it? My biggest complaint with this game is that it's not rigidly party based like FFXI was. Shouldn't be able to do hardly anything solo, save for crafting and gathering. But, I cope, and I still enjoy it, because it still offers party based leveling.

Meh. Screw quests imo. I mean, not altogether... But they shouldn't give exp at all if you ask me.
why is it that everyone seems to think questing = solo...is it a learning disability, just poor reading comprehension here it is again so maybe it won't sail over your heads

QUESTING DOES NOT EQUAL SOLO!!

good lord, how many times do we have to say it, we want group content, things to actually do, If all I really wanted was to do something repetitive, dull, and came with an increasing number, I'd turn on a stopwatch and stare at it as my life slowly ticked away...not play a video game,

if you couldn't find any group quests to do in WoW then I have to ask if you ever actually played it, there where tons of them, even had recommended party sizes in parentheses next to the title. I used to run them all the time with my guild.

there is a difference between engaging party play and dynamics and grinding... One is working together to accomplish a goal, the other is skinner box nonsense that we have successfully trained rats to do. (press button, get pellet...whee fun)