I find it completely sad. (Questing)

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Well when you shorten and describe ANY sidequest in any game, it's like that. Good job.
For example, some of the quests in Shin Megami Tensei IV, using your logic they look like this:
Kill a demon.
Kill a demon.
Kill a demon.
Kill a crazy cultist.

Get the point?

Then at the end of the quest, it explains why. Also at the very beginning, it explains why. I played Persona you know.

Every MMORPG and pretty much every CRPG has filler quests such as "kill 10 boar", even *gasp* EQ, hell in a way they sort of made it the norm for other MMO's to follow suit.
Also, while every side-quest may not be brimming with grandious world lore, most tell a small story, such as a Woodwailer shirking their duties because they joined the order for power and glory but realized that they are a bit of a coward, or that bandits are becoming more bold recently and have been raiding supply caravans in the area so they need food supplies which you can help get by hunting boar. Some of these mini stories are good, some are bad and cliché, but they are still little tidbits that give you information on the world and its people.

Also, I've " heard" a lot of things, it doesn't make them true. From what I have seen with comparisons of the two versions, the only really changes that were made were some slight tonal changes due to cultural differences such as the toning down of Haurchefant's obsession with the WoL and differences due to trying to translate complex ideas between pretty different languages where sometimes direct translation is virtually impossible.

Nobody who plays Everquest ever quested. 99% of the lore was in what citizens would do, say openly and how they would act and how the terrain and environment looked.

For example, Nektulos Castle, there are books scatted all over the place with tons of lore, NOT even quests.

Well, you have to argue with it to them. Since they said the quests are filled "to the brim" with such lore.

[AskaRay]

Then at the end of the quest, it explains why. Also at the very beginning, it explains why. I played Persona you know.



Nobody who plays Everquest ever quested. 99% of the lore was in what citizens would do, say openly and how they would act and how the terrain and environment looked.

For example, Nektulos Castle, there are books scatted all over the place with tons of lore, NOT even quests.

Well, you have to argue with it to them. Since they said the quests are filled "to the brim" with such lore.

Yeah Persona and the SMT main games are..pretty different from each other.
Gathers these apples because I'm hungry.
Kill this demon because I want it dead.

That's pretty much the reasoning behind most of it.