Alpha First Look: Video 5 - Quests and Combat

[Delsus]

How are you forced to read the quest dialog? You don't have to read a word of it. You can tell even the person in that video isn't reading it - unless they're a speed reader (not likely).

You can choose to read it, just as you can in WoW, or LoTRO or Rift or any other MMO based on that template over the last 8 years. But by no means are you "forced" to, nor is it even necessary. Every step of the way is clearly pointed out to you. Just follow the glowing map markers and huge golden icons floating around on your screen.

ARR is doing nothing different or better than any of those. It's a copy and paste of those same quest systems... and I use the term "quest" extremely lightly.

What this video shows are nothing more than mindless busy work, making you run around doing mundane tasks for a reward. They could just as well cut out the "running around" part and just give you the reward for managing to successfully click through all the dialog screens.

Here's an idea for a quest, go to x place, jump 20 times run back to the npc, jump over them then get the reward, as people have said they are progression quests, or not supposed to be hard, or would you prefer running around for hours to find the one mob you have to kill for some exp?

As has been said the only other option for these progression quests, or quests designed for leveling, is the FFXI way, "go to Ronfaure and find the ???" "which ???" "THE ???" "Theres about 20 ???s in Ronfaure... Which one?" "Ugh guess your too dumb for this quest remain a lvl 1 noob for your whole life"

Progression quests should not require checking the FFXIV wiki pages all the time, however quests like job quests, any level cap quests should be harder, and they can easily make those ones not tell you exactly what to do.