New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Berret_Snow]

ARR should be heavily condensed honestly. It's an useless slog and it just makes people want to quit with how dragged out and full of filler it is.

First time I played FF14 I ended up quitting because I just didn't want to deal with ARR story anymore, it was so abysmally bad. When I came back I just bought a story skip just because I didn't want to deal with how pathetic the ARR story is. For the part of ARR that I played(until level 50 or so), I felt like a UPS driver delivering packages to people all over the world rather than doing something actually useful.

I've invited 10 irl friends to this game, none of them remained with it. They like the game, the gameplay, the combat, dungeons, they despise the ARR story.

"The world is going to end RIGHT NOW if we don't do something about it but first bring me some eggs from the other side of the world, now come back, oops, I forgot to ask for milk, go back!"
After leaving the game for half a year after I finish ARR"s horrid patches I jumped into HW and fell in love with the game all over again since the story is amazing. ARR's story can use some work, and you know what? I'll forgive ARR's story and I'll go through it again and I will once Hrothgar are released, but the patches? Please tell me that they are condensing them because they are just horrible.

[SerLuke]

"The world is going to end RIGHT NOW if we don't do something about it but first bring me some eggs from the other side of the world, now come back, oops, I forgot to ask for milk, go back!"
After leaving the game for half a year after I finish ARR"s horrid patches I jumped into HW and fell in love with the game all over again since the story is amazing. ARR's story can use some work, and you know what? I'll forgive ARR's story and I'll go through it again and I will once Hrothgar are released, but the patches? Please tell me that they are condensing them because they are just horrible.

They already confirmed they are going to make some of the ARR MSQ fetch quests into side quests while keeping the main story intact, they said this will probably happen around patch 5.1. I really don't know why this thread is still going on when this is already something Yoshi P confirmed is being worked on but people just want to flood the forums with extra negativity I guess.