MSQ

[Tommara]

We're already....what, going on 4 expansions come when Endwalker releases this year? If they haven't bothered to change their formula years ago, what makes you think they're going to do it now? Clearly they aren't going to. If decide to do the next big FF MMO, whenever that might be, they could change things. Just uprooting with how everything is programed now will take a good chunk of money (no doubt). I'm no programmer, so I can't say for sure how messy ARR's code is. I'm sure changing the code of an entire game, when centered around the MSQ, could take many weeks to months. You can post your views, but SE isn't going to budge if they didn't when HW came out 6 years(?) ago. At least they eliminated all that needless filler in the base game (which is a good direction imo).

Just don't expect change from SE. They won't, probably not until FF14 is over and done with.

Actually, A Realm Reborn's biggest claim to fame is the dev's willingness to correct what wasn't working. That's the only reason why I keep coming back to FF14. Each time I have has been well worth it. I've played most of the PvE focused MMO's since Everquest and FF14 is the only one that play anymore, and has the best MMO community ever (the fact that almost everyone has been civil in this thread is awesome, and I'm in a really nice guild/FC, but there's not much they can do to help get through the MSQ, is there? since the grouping requirements isn't an issue), but I'm currently playing No Man's Sky at the moment and will abandon that when Ark's Genesis 2 is released.

So I'll keep my FF14 subscription active (because I very much want MMO's to survive and I'm betting on this one), even though lately I've been spending most of my time in games that allow me to do whatever I feel like, and every few days or so, log on to FF14 to whittle away the MSQ grind.

Edited Note: by "well worth it", I mean that issues that caused me to quit before have been corrected, for the most part. Only the MSQ being required before moving on to the next expansion remains a reason to quit. (and to be clear, all of the group content should be required before being able to enter a duty finder, it just shouldn't be required for doing the next expansion's content. Any protestions about "but you need to know the story!" fall flat since you can pay to skip them.