No matter how you shake it Most people don;t wanna be running around with the chicken heads chopped off trying to find X person/place/thing before continuing with quests, its a very huge turn off and people will leave just as quick as they got here.

Quests pointing you in the direction you need to go doesn't stop you from having the best adventure of your life, in fact its no different then " Here's a Treasure map, and X Marks the Spot" the only difference is it's guiding you there. Guiding/non guiding you to places like some of you say doesn't make the game hard! Its the "Quest" itself that makes it hard or not hard, not getting to where you need to get to.