Confirmed: ARR campaign will be pruned

[Feronar]

Q41:
The level sync feature of the 5.0 sidequests were very helpful while leveling my other jobs. I hope they will be added for sidequests in 4.x and older.

A41:
I understand how you feel, but it would require recreating all the data, so it has a very high manpower cost associated with. The New Game+ that is currently in development also requires a lot of resources, so we’re currently allocating resources there. As a side note, we’re working on adjusting the A Realm Reborn main scenario to be more compact, and are aiming for patch 5.3.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post5126663

So the main story campaign for A Realm Reborn is being compacted. That's great to hear. While I personally wasn't turned off by the campaign, apart from a few egregious examples ("The Things We Do for Tea", I'm looking at you, and also Costa Del Sol quests before Titan), I've been wanting to recommend FF14 to friends and family, but have been hesitant to do so, simply because of how unpopular the 7th Astral Era (ARR max level) campaign is.

Thanks for these changes. I look forward to seeing what you have in the works.

Some suggestions (May contain ARR spoilers):
- Remove "The Things We Do for Tea", "Welcome to Morbol Country" and other quests that, to put it politely, do not contribute meaningfully to the game or the story.
- Remove "Rock-solid Protection" (Run Sunken Temple of Qarn, a level 35 dungeon). While that quest may have had good reason for being added initially (To get people to run the nerfed version after the original had been blacklisted by the community for being overtuned), the quest has long since outlived its purpose and now just feels like a waste of time.
- Remove the quests where you have to locate F'lhammin and persuade her to return, and instead just have her show up in a single quest.
- Convert the entire quest chain about locating and confronting Ramuh, Lord of Levin, to an optional side quest chain. Actually, nevermind on that one. Apparently, Ramuh's story is important later on down the line. I'm only partway through Heavensward so far, and haven't reach Stormblood or Shadowbringers yet.
- Condense and prune the leveling quests in Costa Del Sol leading up to the battle with Titan. They are mostly filler-quality fetch quests, and their story justification is dubious at best.

Again, thanks for the ARR campaign pruning.

[Avidria]

Glad to hear it. Curious to see what they'll actually do.

[Xau]

- Convert the entire quest chain about locating and confronting Ramuh, Lord of Levin, to an optional side quest chain.

i doubt they gonna do that, why?, the 3 original primals hard modes are sidequests and they are obligatory to complete to pogress thro the msq anyway

[Archchancellor]

In honesty all I think they should do is move most of the MSQ to be just a normal side quest this way you can still get all the lore and story if you want and you can do them as another class so you can spread around the exp.

[Penthea]

- Convert the entire quest chain about locating and confronting Ramuh, Lord of Levin, to an optional side quest chain.

Considering Ramuh says some pretty important stuff that is actually relevant even in the msq of the current expansion, I seriously doubt this will happen. It would be a shame for new players to potentially miss out on his very pivotal dialogue.

Remove the quests where you have to locate F'lhammin and persuade her to return, and instead just have her show up in a single quest.

Having her just show up would downplay the idea of her being missing for so long. You're supposed to be investigating a rumour that she is alive after being assumed dead for five years. Instead I suggest that we still go out to look for her, but without the perfume fetch quest because that is tedious.

[Iscah]

- Convert the entire quest chain about locating and confronting Ramuh, Lord of Levin, to an optional side quest chain.

Ramuh is too important to relegate to a sidequest - and it directly involves the Scions who need to all be available at the time. It needs to stay in MSQ for continuity's sake. So do a number of other quests that require rewriting/condensing rather than moving to sidequests as-is.

[Sathona]

I hope they keep the msq of F'lahminn since she has a place in the story.
Good riddance to the fetch quest b4 Titan please?!

[Tint]

Okay we will get new game plus in 5.1, right?

And they will prune the story in 5.3?

Do I have to complete my new game plus before 5.3 hits to experience the whole story again, or is the new game plus meant to stay as an option for the "old style" MSQ in the game?

[Inuk9]

That was confirmed a long time ago, they just need to see at which patch they will do it.

[Hyperia]

I expect them to turn most of the quests that are not a critical part of the MSQ into sidequests that are optional. Easiest solution that requires no quest deletion, just updating which quests link to each other.