What happened SE?

[Yasuhiro]

Are you upto Heavensward, OP? That's where the story telling gets really good and is on par with the single player games. (but then drops the ball after you defeat the last boss) but what's good or not is subjective and despite saying that I still think XIV is weakest entry in the series slightly beating FFXIII when it comes to story telling and impact.

The localization took me out of the game mostly but I switched to Japanese text midway through 3.2 to help with that, the writing is certainly better I'll have to go through all of ARR again with Japanese text and voices...it wont get rid of the fetch quests though

I would much rather see them add more wandering npc's into the game to make things feel more lively. .

I think they want player characters to do that, that'd imply the game is dead if they start adding in random npc's to fill up some space.

[Jotunhammer]

I think I have to revise my earlier statement, having JUST today come to heavenward and played through the 7th Astral Era Quests there was a LOT better
storytelling and I was feeling more part of it, the only thing is the constant lack of action from the hero, nodding every time and miming is kind of put off

but other than that, sweet lord it has been WAY more fun than the ascent to level 50 and starting machinist and having fun doing tons of FATE etc, it is given me a new set of looking at things.

So yeah, im happy I did not give up every time I felt it was nothing but a ball bouncing grind, and the way 7th Astral Era Quests ended, that REALLY ticked me off.....
so yeah some emotional attachment scored SE, GG and well done.

[Chocolys]

Glad you're finally enjoying the story more. Hopefully Stormblood will not be good too

[MicahZerrshia]

I think they want player characters to do that, that'd imply the game is dead if they start adding in random npc's to fill up some space.

Not all zones stay busy forever, especially starter zones, that's true for just about every game out there. It doesn't imply the game is dead by any means, if anything it means that people are out exploring. It's worse for new players to log into a starter city and see a handful of afk ppl and statue npcs imo. Even if they took the npcs that are there and just made them wander around instead of unmoving, dead behind the eyes types it would be an improvement.

SE tho, they always do their own thing, and usually about 5+ years behind the rest of the worlds game developers so it's to be expected I guess.

[Yasuhiro]

Not all zones stay busy forever, especially starter zones, that's true for just about every game out there. It doesn't imply the game is dead by any means, if anything it means that people are out exploring. It's worse for new players to log into a starter city and see a handful of afk ppl and statue npcs imo. Even if they took the npcs that are there and just made them wander around instead of unmoving, dead behind the eyes types it would be an improvement.

My bad, I see what you mean now I was seeing it in a narrow minded point of view. Now that you mention recently I've come to notice how many static NPC's there are.
In Ishgard there's a couple still wondering what letter is what near the marketboard, wouldn't it be nice to see them move elsewhere from time to time?

[Venjamin]

I will admit, MSQ up to 2.5ish was a little "Trope-filled." I saw a lot of turns coming here and there. Some bits and pieces did catch me off, and they did a good job of making the Scions palpable and the 'source' for your relationship. Once you hit the HW stuff, though, hoo-buddy are you in for a world of emotional journey. I absolutely ADORED the stories for HW, and it's steadily climbed up my 'favorite story-based MMO' list. And it all culminates so well.

Anyways.

I get where you're coming from, but I don't think they dropped the ball too hard on this one.