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.