Why are most allied society dailies just running around talking to NPCs?

[ReynTime]

Computer games are not cars. And developers aren't automobile designers. And a customer unhappy with the way a car is designed (what does that even mean, really?) will not see a revision, ever, if all they say is "I'm unhappy with X" without specifying what should replace X. And, when they finally get to know about Y, it can take them up to five years to bring it to market.

You expect developers to be mind readers. I do not.

They have analysts hired to "read the minds" of player collectives. It's not the player's job to tell them how to fix something if the solution isn't simple. They can only tell what they like and what they don't like.

Nobody in this forum, reddit or bluesky is being paid by SE except their moderators and community managers. And the armchair-designer text wall solutions people think help aren't any more useful than a player complaining they think a job is boring since the developers aren't going to implement anything you suggest the way you think is best.
They can be cool and spark good discussion... but that's all they do.

[ZephyrMenodora]

And that's exactly why they do it. But to be "ok with that" but "not ok" with daily Allied Society quests is just contradictory. (I'm not saying you are - just the concept)

Yes I've completely fine with Allied Society quests. Not all content is going to be overly elaborate, and with 25 years of MMO experience I'm used to dailies designed for players with limited bursts of time to play.

[Iscah]

I feel like yoshi-p has already answered something along with wanting to give us more lore for tural

If "giving more lore" was the intention of these quests, they're not achieving that either. It looked promising early on, delivering additional notes about several locations in the introductory quests and with the trainee tour guide, but it seems to have dried up entirely. The tour guide is stuck visiting only two locations on loop, and half the other quests have us checking in on the tour guides without hearing anything of the tours.

[Destati]

Valid complaint. I enjoyed the Omicron quests, but I agree- it was more about the other races in the Dead Ends than it was about the Omicrons themselves. For me, they worked because I was engaged with all of the races brought back to life in Ultima Thule. I enjoyed the redemption storyline with the bandits, but so far it is the only left turn in this content, and has been a very small part of the whole.

I also wanna clarify with my last complaint - I don't mind if other races are featured in society quests. I see it as a valid way to hit two birds with one stone in terms of adding lore. I love learning about all the different races the game has to offer. But I do mind when there's a relative imbalance on what's being featured, especially when it comes at the expense of learning more about the main subject of the society.

[Emitans]

I just don't get the point of the Transporting quests. Like, "watch out for attacks from enemies!" but you'll never run into any unless you go out of your way to find some.

I've been playing this game since ARR and never taken damage while doing one of these. I don't even know what happens.

[Reimmi]

It is what it is, if you bothered to read the text, you can understand a little more that region local culture, specialty of land/crafts and unique lore of the species residing there.

I'd rather have that and some gameplay

These are not mutually exclusive.

[Valence]

Computer games are not cars. And developers aren't automobile designers. And a customer unhappy with the way a car is designed (what does that even mean, really?) will not see a revision, ever, if all they say is "I'm unhappy with X" without specifying what should replace X. And, when they finally get to know about Y, it can take them up to five years to bring it to market.

You expect developers to be mind readers. I do not.

Not gonna lie, as an ex dev, this take made me chuckle.

[VictorSpoils]

If "giving more lore" was the intention of these quests, they're not achieving that either. It looked promising early on, delivering additional notes about several locations in the introductory quests and with the trainee tour guide, but it seems to have dried up entirely. The tour guide is stuck visiting only two locations on loop, and half the other quests have us checking in on the tour guides without hearing anything of the tours.

And not only is it the same few quests over and over, but the multiple choice NPCs all have the same dialogue response. There isn't much to learn beyond that.

I've been playing this game since ARR and never taken damage while doing one of these. I don't even know what happens.

It shaves a few seconds off the timer, but there's more than enough to walk through an enemy and shrug it off.