Extra questsssssssssss

[yotsuffy]

Please SE, change something.

When I take them, I take the most I can at once.
When I do them, I smash "next" button without even reading.
When I do them, I sometimes have NO clue about where to continue and complete them. So I fail, do all others I have and start again. Because the one I failed is the only one left so I can see.

Why do I skip them? Why do I smash next button?
When I enter a NEW area, I'm following the MAIN STORY QUEST. And that is fine. But extra quests are SO numberous I just can't take them. I'm following the MAIN STORY QUEST and I ALREADY have a LOT to read, to hear, to play (that, don't change it. It's awesome).

But extra quests... I skip them because I follow MSQ (and blue quests). When I have completed that, I can travel and move around freely. And I go to the next area.

When I have completed MSQ, I read so much, I heard so much, I played so much that I want to play at my own pace. I don't want to spend dozens of HOURS completing extra quests just to remove their icons from the maps. Just to remove them from the maps. Because removing them from the map is finally the only goal about doing them, even if I am levelling up another class. Because if I am levelling up another class, I want to LEARN & PLAY it. Not 1) read some story, 2) go there, 3) read some story, 4) go there... and SOMETIMES try to play my class for 10 seconds just to rescue some random ambushed someone.

Extra quests are only about reading and moving. Even the answer choices we may have have NO influence. So I don't do them. But they're there. Always. And they promise huge exp. So I think: well, they'll help when I level up another class. I won't learn my class, I won't play my class, but eh, extra exp?
So I start them. I don't learn my class, I don't play my class and I just spam "next" and move. For hours. And I get my only reward: removing them from the map. Because, again, instead of that I could have learned and played a new class.

Then I quit the game. To have some fun doing something the little time I can, IRL, grant it. This is the reward for doing your extra quests. Needing to leave the game.

Please SE, change something.

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N.B.: French player, trying to reach english-speaking people.

[SturmChurro]

Very interesting poem. I too don't do sidequests, leave them for leveling other class, to be or not to be, I don't

[Jojoya]

There are going to be limitations in any interface about how much it can hold and display at one time. I doubt it would ever be able to display everything for you.

If it's seeing the icons that's annoying you, maybe SE could create a toggle for show/hide side quest icons? That way you could hide them so they aren't cluttering up your UI when you'd focused on MSQ but when you want to do the side quests, you'd be able to see them again. Certainly that's something I would love for Triple Triad NPCs. I tried Triple Triad, didn't like it and stopped doing it but now I'm stuck seeing the icons cluttering up my map and hiding the icons of things I do want to be seeing, like quests and vendors.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I don't understand what you want them to do?

Not add any side quests? Hide the markers?

They add extra lore and character info. I rather like them, and don't want them to change them


You could just... Not do them...

[RicaRuin]

For a completely different opinion: Please don't change them.

I love the extra information and Lore that is narrated via those quest text.

[ErryK]

The issue here is not the amount of sidequests but your irrational mindset about sidequests. If you don't want to read them, feel free to do that. But don't complain about them being on your map because they're entirely optional, if you feel like you have to do them, then that is an issue for you to deal with, not the devs.

[yotsuffy]

I'm in since 2013. Didn't play during Stormblood.
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Yesterday, I accidently found some Nier Automata quest. Because I focused on those yellow-iconed quests.
I also know something called Palace of the Dead is somewhere.

I'm of those players who like to access game, THEN discover something new and do it. Not because I read something IRL and specifically went for it.
For short-time events, I still check online. Because they're based on IRL time.

I don't want SE to stop working on extra quests. Please keep on adding lore to your GAME.
It is just that, knowing extra quests are ONLY about next-next-next-go there-next-next-next-go there-etc., I don't get ANY fun - worse, it' is painful - doing them. So I force myself to not see them, not do them, IGNORE them.

I shouldn't ignore them. I should be happy to do them. But FFXIV is not a read-read-read-move-read-read-move-etc. game. FFXIV is a battle game. With a great, huge story. FFXIV is a battle game where we can also craft and harvest. FFXIV is a game where we can DO so many things. And those quests are only about read-read-read-move-etc. for HOURS. Rare exceptions are those with ambush and battle. Those where we PLAY.
For all those quests, you can just ignore whatever is said, waste hours and get exp. Just not play. They're just side quests with no impact on the main story quest.

I am wishing SE would stop adding quests where we are to NOT play the game and instead keep on adding quests where we are to PLAY the game.

A quest tells me: blabla-move-"do this dongeon"? Ok, I will PLAY for it.
A craft quest tells me: blabla-move-"craft this"? Ok, I will PLAY for it.
A harvest quest tells me: blabla-move-"harvest this"? Ok, I will PLAY for it.

A quest tells me: "go there, read this, go there, etc."? I already have plenty of books I want to read. You want me to JUST read, and NOT play? Why do you want me to NOT play?

I still remember all the mog quests. I still remember how happy I was to finally have PASSED them. Why should I be happy to be past any long-hardworked content? I should have liked to PLAY it.

So, please SE, change something about your side quests. Let us play them.

[MsQi]

You want more quests to have more than just talking.

[SamRF]

There should definitely be way more combat for side quests imo. Too much talking and too little action. Maybe have fewer quests in total but with bigger objectives. Always long for more action when I get the generic "kill 2 of these" assignment. Let me kill 10.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

There should definitely be way more combat for side quests imo. Too much talking and too little action. Maybe have fewer quests in total but with bigger objectives. Always long for more action when I get the generic "kill 2 of these" assignment. Let me kill 10.

No, I'd rather not have kill x quests, those are terrible.