SE stop doing the "norm"

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ffxi quests didn't feel like kill or fetch quests either. they were there but the quests were very diverse. they weren't about experience points, heck even the rewards for them were usually not worth the time. the stories were fun, many connected you to the npc in that house or city or the beastmen in the areas. they were fun to do inbetween all the grinding and crafting and endgame. and then on top of that there was tons of them with mini side bosses. tons and tons of them, ones if done at correct level witch no one really did would of probably took a full group and would be as epic as any boss. but even at max levels were fun to kill. lots of variety in them ...nothing like the ones in ffxiv. even wotg quests were tied to the missions, you did some missions then you couldn't go any farther without doing quests and they all linked story wise. like npc that makes remedies in old quest is tied to the past world to help make another remedy. very well thought out and fun to do.

i don't think you ever really took the time to play the ffxi quests or something, it's totally opposite. while in wow i only played to rank 40 and ran back to ffxi but i didn't read a dang quest in a box ..not a one. no cutsceens, no way of knowing what is true story or side story. all to me were walls of text that i just skiped. so totally 360 in what your saying. on top of all that if wow had side bosses and fights in them, those mobs with a different name lol, they all felt the same to me. no mobs in that games world feel different then the next.

and can't say this enough, making exp and quests the same/as one means no one is reading them, we all want to get to end game and skip it. least it's what most do. keeping them seperated like missions was perfect. you get your leveling, and you get your stories on the side. you could do them or you didn't have to. either way you still got your levels. putting them together is just a slick way to make people feel like they aren't grinding when they are and they are losing out on all the story in the world with it.