Alpha First Look: Video 5 - Quests and Combat

[Nox]

Finally have more than levequests? We had quests in 1.0. Have you played it? Quests in 1.0 had way more dialogue than this. We didn't have more quests because they decided to rebuild the whole game. Yoshida has said "this is only alpha" is never an excuse for bad content, so please, stop using it. Animations are horrendously stiff, specially the lancer, but I don't think they'll get much better than that. I hope we can remove that fucking red circle, it looks like shit. The players being higher level but having their HP drop to less than 50% health shows we will either be tackling content that is lower than our own lv when solo, or will be constantly dying attempting anything higher. If those hoglets were lv 15, she would have died. This type of quest is disgusting, but not surprising. Surprising is the reception from the majority of players here, and their brains seemingly unable to imagine ANYTHING that differs from this old formula. It's really impressive how unimaginative you can be. Unfortunately to some of us these quests look boring, uncreative and stupid, we can in fact quite easily imagine something better than this, and we truly wish we had any way to do it. No, there are no other popular MMORPGs with quests that are any better than this, which is precisely why this game is following the trend. It's still shit. Yoshida will not show content that doesn't represent best what the game is going to be, and since it has already pleased most of you, shut it with the "there will be harder more interesting content later on". This is as interesting as you want it. Also, no one but one or two are advocating for vague, impossible to grasp quest content. Your childish arguments all seem to revolve around "if you don't like white then you probably want black", "it's still alpha" and "every kid is doing it". God damn this community and their innate conformism to mediocrity.

then please sir, stop QQing and use your amazing imagination (which according to you is much better than ours) to describe to us what will work in ARR to introduce new players to the game. We are all waiting. please describe in detail how how your amazing idea will 1. be better 2. how it can be produced at a proper pace in order to not just release a handful of quests a month, and 3. how it will help to intergrate new people into the game. The type of quest shown is by definition meant to be easy, not only is it a low level quest, but it is clearly catered towards solo play.

Also, No this is not as interesting as we want it, but it is as interesting as low level stuff is going to get and that is fine. It is essentiallyalmost tutorial like. We already know the type of challenging content we will get at end game, Ifrit extreme, Garuda, and nael Van Darnus (hard) were a clear example of that. Keep in mind that not all content needs to be difficult content.