MSQ Needs Further Condensing

[Ammokkx]

I was just wondering why they left in so much that could have been taken out as well, and made CT series mandatory.

because

The stuff that actually remains in the game all has to do with actual plot, whether it be plot directly related to the ongoing primal threat or plot dealing with the side story of a character, like Tataru.

as for why CT is mandatory, if you'd bothered to actually watch the 5.3 cutscenes, the ending of 5.3 literally can not function unless the ending of the crystal tower raid is reached. Local best boi needs to be taking his nap or else we can't wake him up.

I got a good enough grip on the MSQ I did it right before they trimmed it with a character, and leveled on specifically after they trimmed it to see what got trimmed.

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It's ludicrous it took this many years for them to address the length of time between 2.0 and 3.0 and the result was maybe a net gain or 3-5 minutes of a person's time being trimmed off? Maybe more if they insta queued into CT after doing all the cut scene'ing and running around involved with that series. Sure I'm stupid and a failure at being intimately versed with XIV lore, but too much is too much "dude".

Listen, man, I don't know what to tell you, but you've admitted to not even watching the story of ShB because you think it's "dogshit". Everyone's entitled to your opinion, but if you're going to be this disinterested in the going-ons of one of the game's big selling points, you're not an authority on the subject.

Quests are there because they're telling a story. The ones who didn't advance the story got cut. It's as simple as that. Besides, if each quest took 15 minutes as you say, and they trimmed 20 quests, that's 300 minutes of time cut out, or 5 hours. That's quite a fair amount of filler quests to be cut.

I'm also not asking you to be well versed in the lore, but you fail to have a basic grip on the simple facts of the story laid out in front of you. I'm not asking you what the 6 elements of Eorzae are and which align with Umbral and Astral. I'm asking you "how did 3/4 ascians die on-screen" because it directly relates to a point you were making.

They cut what unquestionably needed to be cut. That's the long and short of it. To argue they needed to cut more, you need to argue why some sections of the story should be cut out. A story you, I'm sorry to say, don't have nearly enough of a solid grip on to make any kind of judgement call.