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    Atelier-Bagur's Avatar
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    Cordelia Emery
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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowdove View Post
    I made it though part of Shadowland. The story is great. But I finally admit defeat to the MSQ. Two hours of cutscenes and dialogue text (only a slight exaggeration) between getting to kill maybe two enemies is just too much.


    I think FF14 is great. I love the combat. I love the community. Far better than WoW's community.


    But this MSQ...I just can't do it.


    So I lay down my sword and give up.


    I'll be back one day. But for now, I need something that is paced a bit better between story and actually getting to do something.
    Surprised that you went for so long without getting invested with the story. Usually thats why I forgive the slow pacing because of the interesting narrative presented. Or at least thats the impression Im getting since you've come this far into Shadowbringers territory. But Its totally ok for you to just quit and come back at a later time. This game's story pacing is the absolute worst if you're not sold into it.
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    Player Kyrj's Avatar
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    Funyun Knight
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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowdove View Post
    I made it though part of Shadowland. The story is great. But I finally admit defeat to the MSQ. Two hours of cutscenes and dialogue text (only a slight exaggeration) between getting to kill maybe two enemies is just too much.


    I think FF14 is great. I love the combat. I love the community. Far better than WoW's community.


    But this MSQ...I just can't do it.


    So I lay down my sword and give up.


    I'll be back one day. But for now, I need something that is paced a bit better between story and actually getting to do something.
    Yeah I usually can do the MSQ a few times through on different characters but EW just sucked in terms of cutscene to playtime ratio. Every single quest felt like it was 30 seconds of running, 10 seconds of fighting and then a 10 minute cutscene. Every once in a while you'll get a solo duty which is the only fun I have had in EW's MSQ.
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    Rexipher Evergrey
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    Odin
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    I simply skip the dialogue.
    I still don't fully understand what we did in Stormblood. XD
    But I at least promised myself to watch the cutscenes that are voice acted.
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    Last edited by Evergrey; 04-30-2022 at 03:48 AM.

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    Saya Finwel
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    Quote Originally Posted by Evergrey View Post
    I simply skip the dialogue.
    I still don't fully understand what we did in Stormblood. XD
    But I at least promised myself to watch the cutscenes that are voice acted.
    I think there was something about an overpriced Katana and the urge to be step on by a dommy mommy or something.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Evergrey View Post
    I simply skip the dialogue.
    I still don't fully understand what we did in Stormblood. XD
    But I at least promised myself to watch the cutscenes that are voice acted.

    I could have skipped the cutscenes. But I did want to know the story. Just wished the ratio between storytelling and actually doing something was less than 1000:1
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    Haven Belle
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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowdove View Post
    I could have skipped the cutscenes. But I did want to know the story. Just wished the ratio between storytelling and actually doing something was less than 1000:1
    you can always skip th dialogue and cutscenes and rush to the endgame and then later on come back to the story via newgame+ and finish it at your leisure so that your also not locked out of content, NG+ saves the quest your on so you can turn it on and off when you feel like it instead of being forced to do it all at once
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    Larirawiel Caennalys
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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowdove View Post
    I made it though part of Shadowland.
    OK, i understand why you do not like it. xD



    Cheers
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    Ryutaro Mori
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    I mean the good thing is you can just drop the MSQ at any point and go do something else.
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    Oscarlet Oirellain
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    For those of us who started from ARR, we only had to do one expansion at a time and then we had 2 years of mostly doing content. You can actually play it the same way by stopping the MSQ after each expansion and doing all of the endgame content that was released in that expansion. That content all has a story as well but they are probably shorter than the the MSQ.

    Each expansion has 12 8-person raids, a trial series consisting of 3 trials, a series of 3 alliance raids, a relic weapon grind which in Stormblood and Shadowbringers includes vast areas with interesting actions, bosses and raids. There are the deep dungeons Palace of the Dead or Heaven-on-High and 3 beast tribes for each expansion. There are a lot of sidequest dungeons up until Shadowbringers too. We also had other content released through these expansions, such as new triple triad NPCs to fight, blue mage updates, new games in the gold saucer and plenty of mount grinds from all of these things.
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    In other news, there is no technical debt from 1.0.
    "We don't have ... a technological issue that was carried over from 1.0, because ARR was meant to kind of discard what we had from 1.0 and rebuild it from the engine."
    https://youtu.be/ge32wNPaJKk?t=560

    Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
    Want to know why new content will never last more than 20 minutes? Full breakdown:

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