Quote Originally Posted by Azurymber View Post
i'm really surprised everyone is so against this.
All this would do is turn a very long solo-grind -that already exists- into a solo story-mode. Put another way, all it would do is make the very boring solo grind into something fun to do.

But I guess people who play this game don't like stories and would rather mindlessly grind on the same few mobs for days.......

And honestly maybe its the players who are holding this game back then. Because the most successful and most demanded upcoming MMOs out there are heavily quest and lore base (WoW, SW: TOR, etc)

Maybe SE's "unique" thing will be that its a 1 button mashing grind fest. I just never realized there were that many people who enjoyed that o_o
WoW has never been an MMO that concentrates strongly on story. The story IS there, but you ask most of the player-base in WoW what the story is about and they'll reply: "Who gives a ****?!" and honestly, if you played through it you'd seriously wonder where the story is, all you will experience is: *quest, go kill 10 orc* *quest complete* *quest, go kill 10 goblins* *quest complete* *quest, go collect 10 flowers* *quest complete* and so on and so on. WoW is with quest grinding as FFXIV is with leve grinding. It's all the same thing, just with a different wrapper.

Though yes SW: TOR is apparently going to be heavy story-based, but we'll wait and see.

But wait a second, hold on! Didn't I just spend 6 hours the other day playing through the La Noscea storyline with Ren along with all the side-quests, and going all the way up to rank 16 Archery with it? Yes I do believe I did! And did I feel like it was a grind? No I don't think it was because there were so many cut-scenes and things thrown around that I barely even noticed when a side-quest told me to 'go kill x amount of crabs'.