GM Encounter #3. Chocobo Blight Has Been Lifted.

[Sephr]

I seriously hope they stop doing this and simply use quests/cutscenes as a way of telling story and the goings on of the game's world, because this is just the same as locking players out of game content. No one likes players being left out of particular game content, right?
So why is this OK?

However, this wouldn't be so much of a problem if there were quests implemented for these particular scenarios, with GMs popping up here and there as they do, as this would give everyone a chance.

I don't understand this? It's just flavouring. How is a GM popping in randomly to chat to people and *gather information, not give it out* even remotely as difficult as implementing quests and cutscenes?
This is going to just be the community team, not the developers. They aren't even remotely related in terms of development, the ultimate result will just be more lodestone 'reports' where 'Kipih' (sp?) relays the rumours people have been saying again.

No one really gains anything from this other than a little bit of fun, nothing major. People will complain about anything, really.

Keep it up GMs, it's interesting to read about and reassuring that they're having a much more hands on approach to interacting with the community than other games.

[Jinko]

Yeah yeah, it's great GMs are doing this but come on...
Not everyone is going to be able to meet these, it's a little unfair.

This is just them copping out of putting in a quest which tells how the chocobo blight suddenly vanished so that all players can experience it through cutscenes.
Seeing them cutting corners on this sort of thing (including lodestone lore posts) is getting a little bit annoying.

I'm sure there will be text and different side quests, company quests and more detailing the end of the chocobo blight, you don't think they will just magically say give me 3000 company marks and you get this shiny new horse bird do you.

There is no other MMO out there that I know of that has GM take a hands on role playing approach with its players.