Quote Originally Posted by Buki_jo View Post
So, me and some friends decided to start playing this game together after reading good reviews online. But quit after a day of quests, quests, quests, quests. There has got to be a way to streamline these quests to where you can get a good story, but at the same time not grinding endless quests that 99% of people skip the dialog anyway.
99% of people don't skip the dialogue, because it's a story-driven game and the story is part of what drives the excitement for the new content and patches. Everything is inspired by the story - the music, the mechanics, the dungeon design, the visuals, all would not be what they are without the story and knowing the story makes you more excited to do the content.

Those who do skip the dialogue usually get bored and quit, because the game is designed to enjoy the story. Even following the story but feeling that you have to rush to the end can cause you not to absorb the story properly and burnout.

As the name suggests, this game is the 14th and there were 13 more before it, most of them single player that were all about story and that is why this game is too.

Is there traditional MMO content such as raids, pvp and open world content? Yes, all of it has a blue story quest that unlocks it and depending on what you want to do, you need a certain amount of main story progression to do it. The main story quest (MSQ) is the one with the fireball.

My suggestion is to either try to enjoy the stories, or the game might not be for you because even unlocking basic menus involves a story quest. You can do what some people do and buy a story skip, or skip through all cutscenes, at the expense of knowing the context of what's going on and reducing your enjoyment/excitement for future patches.

Also, the free trial is a joke. it's almost as if SE wants to punish people for playing the free trail and not paying. You can't even invite people to parties.
All MMOs do this because of RMT (criminal activity), although it's effective at getting people to pay so that is probably a part of it too.