SE stop doing the "norm"

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You lost me at the bolded text. How can you evaluate the quests if you don't even read them? The story bits are the best part of the quests in most cases, especially in FFXIV. The objectives have been fairly standard but the stories are often quite interesting. Hell they even started the Dalamud storyline way back in patch 1.16 with the side quests.

Are you really saying that if there's no cutscenes there's no way of telling what's going on?

i'm not a new gamer, i'm just accustomed to ffxi. the main part of anything i'm saying is. i want quests/story seperate from my grinding/exp. i want to do the questing/the reading on my own and during days or hours i feel like solo'ing or not doing anything else or got time inbetween events/endgame.

on side note, even cut scenes people try to tell you not to watch and skip them. a note to the devs they should not even have them set up so they are watched b4 entering the dungeon. it's the worste point in the game to put them. they should add them to the last part of the quest that people solo b4 entering so no one is pushed to skip or wait.

if we took a real pole i can bet that almost 70-90%(number out of my butt lol) will have said they didn't read any quests in a box in wow, and sadly just the same i new a lot of players that felt, why do quests in ffxi if there is no good reward to them.

even in games like swtor i didn't watch the cut sceens so it's not just cause it's not a cut scene. i didn't enjoy reading the story with simple body npc's flaming there hands around and talking in cut scenes to why i need to do any of what i'm doing. if they had it seperatly, again i would of at least took the time after i hit max level to do them and read them. heck then maybe 90% of the player base wouldn't be logging out and in for just 3hrs twice a week for some 16man endgame.

so all in all that is the main issue, keeping the grind and my story telling together will remove any want of reading it even if i would like to read at least some of it. so i can evaluate that a block of text is a block of text no matter how compelling the story is. i don't read books, i watch tv and movies. we not at a library we rockin a video game.