New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[SerLuke]

the arr story up until the prelude to heavensward stuff sucks. particularly 2.1 to about 2.4. a lot of running around doing unnecessary delivery quests to the point where even NPCs crack jokes about it. i got my fiance into the game recently and all through 2.x i had to tell them that everything gets better in heavensward simply because that bit of the story is just so... tedious. it absolutely turns new players off.

its a bit disingenuous to dismiss everyones issues with the msq as unreasonable

The thing is though, I’ve been a new player too, I didn’t play till after Havensward came out and here is the thing, I enjoyed the ARR MSQ, even the 2.1-2.4 stuff, I approached it not as an MMO but as a Final Fantasy game. It’s not a game for everyone, and that’s totally fine but I love it for what it is. Maybe some of the post ARR MSQ could be streamlined but I still freaking loved it esp the parts with Ramhu. If anything I wish post HW and SB MSQs were longer I love the characters I love the love and I love the dialog and I love how the duties tie into all of that and it’s a bit upsetting when someone wants one of my favorite parts of the game changes just because it doesn’t fit them. Not everything is for everyone, some people like things you don’t and enjoy things you found tedious.

[Mavrias]

The thing is though, I’ve been a new player too, I didn’t play till after Havensward came out and here is the thing, I enjoyed the ARR MSQ, even the 2.1-2.4 stuff, I approached it not as an MMO but as a Final Fantasy game. It’s not a game for everyone, and that’s totally fine but I love it for what it is. Maybe some of the post ARR MSQ could be streamlined but I still freaking loved it esp the parts with Ramhu. If anything I wish post HW and SB MSQs were longer I love the characters I love the love and I love the dialog and I love how the duties tie into all of that and it’s a bit upsetting when someone wants one of my favorite parts of the game changes just because it doesn’t fit them. Not everything is for everyone, some people like things you don’t and enjoy things you found tedious.

i get that not everything is for everyone, but if you find just the notion that someone wants the way MSQ is done to change, think about how upset it must make the otherside to hear "just stop playing this game and go play WoW."