Quote Originally Posted by Preypacer View Post
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.
Did it ever occur to you that maybe they were skipping through it ON PURPOSE? Developers sometimes do that when they're showcasing something and have limited time in which to do so. Get over it. I'am 99.999999% positive that this is not an actual player going through this content, thus to make the observation that "Oh hey, even they're skipping through the dialogue lolololol" makes you look rather lobotomised.