Quote Originally Posted by Daethir View Post
I like the game a lot but I'll have a hard time convincing my friends to play it with me because they already quit the game over it a couple of years ago and I can understand why.
Well, guess "muh story driven MMORPG" is not the game for them.Even if they may like parts of the story or other MMO elements of XIV. They could pay for $kip potions since SE is a small indie company with artistic vision and doesn't need to care how their game is when compared to other MMORPGs.

Also somehow people skipping the MSQ, which is mostly a solo experience, affects the enjoyment of the story for the 'hard-core story enthusiasts'.

If nothing changes regarding the number of quests,especially filler content, I look forward to the day when we have over a 1000 MSQ quests and we can tell people things like, "It gets better in Heveansward!" or "It gets better in Shadowbringers!"

To me there's two main problems :
Those quest are supposed to be filler not the meat of your game!...
I think Edax expressed this well:

"It's the same mindset that would have anyone watching a popular anime would have when they skip the bad filler season. Yeah, it makes no sense to just skip every episode of a show and just watch the last one, but there is sense in excising the parts of a series that are utter time wasters.

So what if Waking Sands is a part of Vesper Bay? If Waking Sands got a mini-aethernet, that means the Waking Sands got a mini-aethernet, and not Vesper Bay. It's not like you only have to do one or two quests out Waking Sands, you would end up taking that ferry very many, many times. The plot of FFXIV isn't "Ride the Ferry 50 times" nor is its appeal."

The explanation make sense lore wise, but why did they create such a lore in the first place ? Knowing the reason why you can't teleport into the city doesn't magically make it less annoying. When your lore get in the way of gameplay to that extends it's not a good thing, I wonder how such a bad game design decision made it into the final game.
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