Quote Originally Posted by Velox View Post
MMOs always suffer from these kinds of problems
But they don't HAVE to. The quest could have been rewritten/reanimated to account for the missing character. While it would be less than palatable to treat Lolorito to dinner instead of Nanamo, it would be preferable to the current system.

Folks can talk about canon timelines and sidequest timelines and whatnot however they want, and I'd be willing to accept such a thing as a compromise - however, to my knowledge, there is no indication whatsoever that the Culinarian quests are taking place in the past, or as a flashback, or whatever. You just go in, do them, and Nanamo chows down as if there was nothing out of the ordinary, and that it's perfectly normal for her to be alive.

For us, who have been playing the game for a while and remember that this stuff was added in an earlier patch, that's one thing. But for a new player joining the game, who completed the Main Scenario first (cuz apparently that's what you gotta do before you can get any use out of the Heavensward expansion), and then took up CUL, the sudden appearance of Nanamo will be confusing to say the least. If you were to read a book and something like that happened, you'd think the writer was out of his mind.

I still maintain hope that the CUL quest will be updated sometime in the near future to account for the possibility of a player doing things out of the expected order; SE has been pretty good about this kind of thing in the past, having NPCs that SHOULD recognize you actually recognize you if you've been involved with them previously, and not otherwise. I don't want the CUL quests to become a precedent that will allow for lazy writing in the future.

Bumping off a major character like Nanamo was a bold and unexpected move, and I applaud them for that, but they really need to follow through.