Dev team, please do not remove the importance of the MSQ

[Jeeqbit]

SE won't remove the story from raids. They understand the importance of attaching a lore and a reason to everything. A lot of "raider" players may not care, but a lot of people enjoy the story attached to them as well, and others just play for completely different reasons like glamour, RP, the story, or more casual content like roulettes, treasure maps, hunting and gold saucer activities and the lore is important to a lot of these players.

What you will notice is that every single interaction with raid NPCs takes you into a full-blown cut scene which can be re-viewed via The Unending Journey. This is because they know a lot of people will skip them and then wish to re-watch them later on when the day-one pressure is off.

It's also the case that you only need to complete 4.0 without its subsequent patches to enter content like Omega, Eureka and non-MSQ dungeons and trials, the cut scenes of which you can skip and re-watch. That's about as far as they can unshackle it I think.

[DBriggs304]

MSQ is what makes FF unique. If people dont want that, there are plenty of other games that offer what you want.

Leave FF the way it is.

[Skivvy]

MSQ is what makes FF unique. If people dont want that, there are plenty of other games that offer what you want.

Leave FF the way it is.

Plenty of games have a solid story, but they don't ham-fist it down your throat.

As I mentioned in the other thread, I prefer how XI handles their story lines, but I can appreciate the fact that disconnected stories wouldn't work in XIV. With that said, I'm sure there is some happy medium that could be met.

[Akonyl]

MSQ is just part of the leveling experience, you have to level in any MMO to get to the endgame raid content, and if you want to skip it, you can just pay to do it (in FF and other MMOs like WoW)

They're never going to remove leveling entirely when it's an MMO of all genres, and if leveling is still in the game, is MSQ really what's killing you or is it that leveling to max takes a while? Would you really just rather grind POTD forever?

[van_arn]

As true as if they don't mind they'll do it.

Besides, as much as there are quest that could be remove, the whole MSQ isn't FedEx as you say.

Or tell me, why are you playing a game that you think is a waste of time. I don't get it.

Because even if the questing sucks, the content is fun. I can skip the cutscenes.

A new player has to go through 150+ hours of fedexing that crap to even get to anything moderately ok. And yes, pray return to the waking sands is a meme for a reason. It's a crappy fedex msq.

*note: 150 hours of crappy fedexing is pretty much not even playing the game. That's wasting time between cutscenes or overnerfed, outdated content.

[Reap00]

I agree with you 100% OP. The story is one of the main reasons I play the game. I see all the tears about ARR but it isn't justified. Its a Final Fantasy game. All FF games are heavily based on story. You knew what you were getting into. I have leveled through the entire story on 5 different characters and loved every minute of it.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Because even if the questing sucks, the content is fun. I can skip the cutscenes.

A new player has to go through 150+ hours of fedexing that crap to even get to anything moderately ok. And yes, pray return to the waking sands is a meme for a reason. It's a crappy fedex msq.

You mean a new player has to play the game? The horror! How dare they play what they paid for!

[SerLuke]

You mean a new player has to play the game? The horror! How dare they play what they paid for!

Yeah! 150 hours? It’s almost like we’re playing a Final Fantasy game with 2 full sizes expansions or something! I would never buy a Final Fantasy game expecting it to be as long as a Final Fantasy game!

[LaylaTsarra]

You do you. If people want to start at a more recent era, without needing to waste their time with 150+ hours of teleporting FedEx quests, then mind your own business and they'll skip it if they want.

You can skip it ... there are skip potions. Be sure to skip all of it so you can then sit around in game and complain you have nothing to do. That's an option for sure. Nothing magical about the new content... it's all new if you haven't done it.

[Ramesses]

The MSQ is not going anywhere because it forms one of the three main pillars of FFXIV's overall concept... the over-arching main storyline is one of the elements that makes it a superior MMORPG on a global level.

As mentioned a few times in this thread, if you find the MSQ unpalatable and not to your liking, please purchase some skip potions.