Why people call content unlock quests "blue" ?

[Kenarashi]

Cause the quest icon is.... blue?

No Quest icon is gold . The filler of that maybe considered blue with a blue filled cross . The question mark is still gold and border is still golden so calling it blue quest is kinda false.

[Seraphor]

No Quest icon is gold . The filler of that maybe considered blue with a blue filled cross . The question mark is still gold and border is still golden so calling it blue quest is kinda false.

The 'inside' of the quest marker is also part of... the quest marker...

All quest markers have gold trim, blue quest markers are the only ones with, you know, blue in them.


Which of of these is the blue one?

[Breakbeat]

Holy semantics, Batman!

- Some people will see the color blue as the defining element of that quest icon, call it a blue quest marker, and that is completely fine.
- Some people will see the "+" as the defining element and call it a "plus" quest marker, and that's also fine.

You call it what you want in your head ("Q plus blue" quest marker, "banana spaceship" quest marker, whatever) but use the search terms society wants to use if you need to look something up. No need to control how the next person defines that icon.

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This is an issue, why? Let's all quietly stop worrying about what the next person wants to call something. I mean, I come from WoW where folks abbreviate stuff by the first and last letter of a word - something that is done nowhere else on Earth and is mind-numbingly incorrect - but if that's what they want to do, that's what they want to do.

(Example: the word 'heroic' often gets abbreviated to 'HC' in WoW. There are no real-world examples of abbreviating like this. Eh, so be it.)

[Black_Wing]

Because the most notable difference people tend to see is the bright blue background and not the plus. Normal quests have a brown background and the notable difference with MSQ is the Meteor symbol. That background is still part of the quest icon, not sure why you are trying to split hairs on something the community at large has basically have come to a consensus to.

[Pirana1]

The 'inside' of the quest marker is also part of... the quest marker...

All quest markers have gold trim, blue quest markers are the only ones with, you know, blue in them.


Which of of these is the blue one?

This gave me a good chuckle... appreciate it. What's the old saying? You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force them to drink it. lol

Holy semantics, Batman!

Perfectly stated.

If someone is going to start a thread and people give correct feedback, utilize what's in that head of yours.

[Hausti]

Never heard anyone calling them blue in like 8 years of playing.
Is this some new meme like people writing "ggs" lately at the end of a dungeon instead of "gg"?

[Nethereal]

The 'inside' of the quest marker is also part of... the quest marker...

All quest markers have gold trim, blue quest markers are the only ones with, you know, blue in them.


Which of of these is the blue one?

Can't wait to see the reply to this, or lack thereof.

[Catwho]

Never heard anyone calling them blue in like 8 years of playing.
Is this some new meme like people writing "ggs" lately at the end of a dungeon instead of "gg"?

They weren't in the base game anyway. Pretty sure the visual indicator was added sometime in Heavensward, because it wasn't obvious what quest chains were needed to unlock the aethercurrents at first. (Can't be arsed go through all the patch notes to find out when.)

the ggs has been around for years, we're just now seeing more of it because more people from other games are trying this one. FC member would always say "gg" and I believe his primary games before XIV were all first person shooters, so I assumed it came from there.

[Fellgon]

They weren't in the base game anyway. Pretty sure the visual indicator was added sometime in Heavensward, because it wasn't obvious what quest chains were needed to unlock the aethercurrents at first. (Can't be arsed go through all the patch notes to find out when.)

the ggs has been around for years, we're just now seeing more of it because more people from other games are trying this one. FC member would always say "gg" and I believe his primary games before XIV were all first person shooters, so I assumed it came from there.

Im sure that this !+ came in heavensward.

[TaleraRistain]

Never heard anyone calling them blue in like 8 years of playing.
Is this some new meme like people writing "ggs" lately at the end of a dungeon instead of "gg"?

Hasn't been around for 8 years of playing. I forgot what expansion they added them in but it was at least HW. Maybe SB. I believe a big part was so people could find the Aether Current quests more easily. But they expanded it to other content unlock triggers.