New quest types coming to Final Fantasy XIV!

[Starlord]

http://www.novacrystallis.com/2015/0...l-fantasy-xiv/

“I already talked to the team about the Moogle side quests, because they are quite tiresome and tedious jobs. For the future, we like to remove this type of quest.

There are two points to improve for side quests: First of all, you need to assign a proper story to that side quest. We also want to add more variation to the side quests.

For example, you may need to find the highest building an an area and jump off from the top if it. Or you need to carry a certain item and secretly sneak into a building without being noticed by anyone.

We think that adding that mini-game type of quests to the game should be fun. I actually talked with the team about this last week, before coming to Gamescom. Before moving to 4.0, we have to add more variety to the quests. We want to change this and the flag systems. These are the things we want to improve.”

[MilesSaintboroguh]

All my likes!

[Riardon]

Please YES!!!

[MugenMugetsu]

Sweet! That's great news. Thanks for the update!

[xieathe]

I am so 100000% for expanded and varied quest types. The longform story-driven quest lines have always been my favourites, but mini-game types would especially be welcome. Here's hoping it means more variety and job-specific quests for our jobs, as well.

[WingsOfAzrael]

more quest types=good thanks for the update

[Terrini]

Oh dear... more Sylph carry quests >_< Those are really annoying since they are both timed AND you have to not get hit.

But what kind of quest would require you to jump off the highest building? That seems ridiculous! Any normal person would die. And if it requires a flying mount - you don't 'fall' so why 'jump off'? This just seems silly o.O

Having good reasons and stories is the main thing, I actually thought the moogles were interesting but the searching for things was rough in 3 dimensions.

[Gilraen]

Uh, Starlord... why didn't you just post this all in a single thread? This all seems like parts of the same interview split into specific sections.

[Starlord]

Uh, Starlord... why didn't you just post this all in a single thread? This all seems like parts of the same interview split into specific sections.

Because they all came out in at a different time from the same site, I just posted them as it came. and if there is an original interview, they didn't post it as far as I know of.

Anyways, does it matter? You are getting an update on it, so it really shouldn't matter.

[Lusavari]

I mentioned this idea in a different thread, but I think adding a new type of duty would be great where there are solo duties like this where you have to do a stealth mission, or a competitive guild hest where players race to a prize in a treasure hunt...

I also think a dungeon where players must cooperatively escape from a prison would be fun where all 4 players start in different locations, and have to solve puzzles, and meet at the end, fight the prison warden and escape, but battles would also be discouraged, like all gear is removed, though this could be done with a stat locking drawing weapon, and glamouring gear into prison clothes, and interacting with a chest at the end removes these stats.

That's also something that could be done in an expansion. There are some people complaining about too many new moves and burn out trying to learn all the new skills. In an expansion, to break up variety in new battle skills, Every job could have a few puzzle dungeon skills added like Ninjas can lockpick a door to gain access to places others can't (Or a Warrior can kick down the door, but it makes noise possibly attracting attention) while a Dragoon can jump over obstacles to bypass certain areas.