Better communication/quest system etc

[Estellios]

Actually, there is a feature like that buried somewhere deep within the menus. I don't use it given I almost exclusively only party with people I personally know or people I hear shouting for help for hours on end, but I do know i've seen it and, according to many things i've read on these forums, JP groups pretty much ask you to join their group through that feature rather than request a party invite from the leader.

It's, amazingly, in the "party" section of the menu =P

I've been using it a lot lately for Hamlet Defense groups since if you set specific classes/levels the only way people can join is if they actually have it.

I wish there was an option for "X OR Y" for specific slots or stuff like "tank" or "DD" and an auto-translate in the party description but now that they added a lot more purpose options it's pretty nice.

[rina_inverse]

1. If you want to have a private talk, find a phone. Remember, SE watch all of your conversation!
2. "Other games great. SE should be like that". Screw them. I dont play them
3. Walk back to quest issuer.. I dont exactly catch your problem here. Anima? Hamlet got us covered. Remember, we suppose to be role playing. And not all (part) of the quest make us back to issuer, sometime a message come to our pearl, and we continue from that point. Clearly you dont know this. Stop lazying and do more quest
4. Open mails where ever you want.. *ifrit charging hell fire* *a message pop up* *read message* *corpses*

[Churchill]

I always enjoy myself when reading suggestions from people on the OF.

They usually go like this:
Newer player: Hey, these modern features that make the game more playable/fun/easy to access/able to make progress with small playtime would be nice

Players with all Lv50: No way, what are you lazy

[rina_inverse]

I always enjoy myself when reading suggestions from people on the OF.

They usually go like this:
Newer player: Hey, these modern features that make the game more playable/fun/easy to access/able to make progress with small playtime would be nice

Players with all Lv50: No way, what are you lazy

Trust me, Im also enjoying it

[neorei]

YO DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE QUEST, SO WE PUT A QUEST IN YOUR QUEST SO YOU CAN QUEST WHILE YOU QUEST

[Elexia]

Communication system:
- An ingame Messanger where you can create a private chat with friends

- when you receive a new message/moogle mail. a visual signal should come up in the corner

Yet more reason they should have kept POL for XIV.

[Seif]

I'd like them to just make a lot better quests in general where cutscenes aren't limited to a handful of missions.

I'd also like them to make us travel a lot more and require longer commitment sometimes.

Leves do neither of the above and they pale in comparison to games like Tera that have casual quests but they don't treat their players like cows on a meadow.

Casual does not mean pointless nor boring.


Elexia is so right btw. SE should stop taking features away from their products if they don't have anything more or better to offer in it's place.

[Elexia]

I'd like them to just make a lot better quests in general where cutscenes aren't limited to a handful of missions.

:X quest chaining to level means this won't happen as they need a ton of them to even make it possible. They even said doing voice work for cutscenes would push updates to longer schedules and they're trying to get a 2 month? update schedule so that already means there won't be quality quests in this game because if they're making a lot of quests they can't spend time on cutscenes for even a majority of them unless they do it FFXI style with 'pseudo' cutscenes.

This is why even "the ultimate questing experience" of SWTOR was medicore and subpar, because they got lazy with it after the initial areas and questlines because it just can't be done xD

Tera that have casual quests but they don't treat their players like cows on a meadow.

Tera also threw out mob grinding past the starting levels and the quests were essentially all the same, so while you weren't treated like a cow in a meadow, you were treated like an errand boy/girl to do the same task in almost every quest you come across.

Casual does not mean pointless nor boring.

It doesn't but can you blame people for thinking this after seeing what happened to MMORPGs with the push to cater to casual playerbases? No MMO has really done a good balance or quality for casual gameplay/hardcore gameplay yet, especially not GW2.

[Eekiki]

I hate doing this (not really), but again I have to reference Xenoblade Chronicles.

In this game, there are sidequests given by generic NPCs that are your standard (go kill X monster(s), collect X thing(s). Once you fulfill the objectives, the quest automatically completes.

Then there are sidequests given by named NPCs. These are the quests that have a little story to them, and on occasion are more than your typical run-and-fetch fare. These require you to return to the quest-giver, and sometimes they'll want you to do something else before the quest is completed.

This is the way to do it. This way, you don't have to think of some kind of backstory for the "traditional" MMORPG quests, and you still leave yourself with the ability to design more complex quests with good stories and unique objectives.

[Felis]

In this game, there are sidequests given by generic NPCs that are your standard (go kill X monster(s), collect X thing(s). Once you fulfill the objectives, the quest automatically completes.

We have this already. It's called Leves