Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
People complaining about lack of endgame now. I'm sure you can find them yourself.
If you can see complaints in spaces dedicated to FFXIV, they're most likely still playing or come back regularly for raiding.
There is still a lot more time to be spent doing endgame content that MSQ content. Prog and reclears take time.
And MSQ being optional wouldn't remove it from the game, it would change literally nothing aside not forcing people who don't want to read a point and click visual novel to do so.
As Alaray said, the MSQ offers no fun gameplay, as someone who spent over 8k hours on the game since mid-5.0 without giving a damn about the MSQ, there is still plenty of enjoyable things to do that could keep MMO enthusiasts who enjoy crafting, or housing, or raiding, or glamour, or leveling, or achievement hunting, or in general just doing stuff with their friends, roped in.

The only reason you don't hear people complain about FFXIV's MSQ much is because most people who are unhappy with it got filtered and don't frequent XIV communities, but it's a recurrent criticism in communities centered around MMORPGs as a genre.