SE, please add "No Story Mode" into the game

[Alicie]

Let me be blunt: it's been over 5 years since I started to play this game. I really don't care about the story anymore. I just want trials and raids unlocked asap.
I'm not interested to do few hours of back and forth every major patch on multiple characters, and I'm even less interested in doing cringy roleplay solo duties with mandatory "oh I will help everyone then will face some big boss that will cast seemingly unavoidable fatal attack but by power of friendship and magic we will cast some giga spell and save ourselves". It was fun one, maybe two times, but when it happens every second patch it becomes outright annoying.

Please give us a button that will just unlock all the patch content immediately. If needed, sell "expansion pass" for like 20 bucks or something that will allow people who buy it press the button and have a patch completed.

Or at the very least, make solo duties optional. They are, at this point of time, nothing more than an irritant.

[Kaurhz]

IMO, they would be best decoupling instanced content from the MSQ entirely. I think it would allow them to offer more in the long run.

[echo78]

I'm even less interested in doing cringy roleplay solo duties with mandatory "oh I will help everyone then will face some big boss that will cast seemingly unavoidable fatal attack but by power of friendship and magic we will cast some giga spell and save ourselves". It was fun one, maybe two times, but when it happens every second patch it becomes outright annoying.

God the eye roll when they pulled this out again this patch. Talk about being creatively bankrupt lol

[Stasya]

God the eye roll when they pulled this out again this patch. Talk about being creatively bankrupt lol

They did not even play test it. Speech bubbles are rendered at like 10 fps, noticeable when you move (or they thought people won't press wasd and read them every time sipping tea in gaming chair).

[TeresaFortell]

God the eye roll when they pulled this out again this patch. Talk about being creatively bankrupt lol

Well, at least Krile got some more screentime, instead of nothing at all.

[MayuAmakura]

God the eye roll when they pulled this out again this patch. Talk about being creatively bankrupt lol

Did they ever have some creativity? One time they make something -> it follows strict formula for the future. It's always "nobody dies, we power up with magical LB and defeat the enemy, the end''. You can now safely assume and play all fights with ease / afk because you know what is going to happen if a boss casts wipe spell. It's mega boring.

Not like their other games are creative lmao, they all follow the same formula of map style, combat and how things work.

[Aidorouge]

It should certainly be an option for people rolling alts to be able to skip everything up to their last completed part of the MSQ on a character. There's already ways to go back and re-watch cutscenes/replay fights if someone really wants to, so its not like the alt is going to miss out, and some people may in fact just want to skip CERTAIN parts in the MSQ while replaying their favorites.

[Minarisweet]

They profit more from selling skips. This is a corpo not a friend.

[RodericWarblade]

In my Opinion, it should be based on your account.

Basically if your account for example is up to Shadowbringers, you don't have to play the rest of the game on an alt to get to the Shadowbringers area. Your alt can just go there at lvl 1 for example.

It'd make it so much easier to have alt's rather then having to play through the story. Just make a new one, level, and catch up to where your main is. Likely with an EXP boost to help.

[ViinaS]

My issue is that Solo Missions are so bad nowadays.
It's either a piss-easy fight or RP as someone else with 3 buttons to do a piss-easy fight.

They have zero creativity.
I loved the one we got in EW, the one in Garlemald, but alas, people lacking basic skills complained so it was neutered. Am surprised the fight with Venat was allowed to keep existing as it did have some neat mechanics you could not ignore.
Heck those kind of people still complain with the DT ones, claling them "too hard" or "impossible".

And sadly SE scales everything around the most possible braindead player one could imagine.
No risks taken, no innovation, no interesting things allowed.