Quote Originally Posted by Azurymber View Post
what quests give mats? i don't think i got -any- mats from any of the quests.... And they give almost no lore whatsoever except for a few quests related to the new stuff. Most of them are generic stories that could be randomly placed in any game.

and average player = new player. Most of the hardcore fans already got the game, so most people who will be getting the game on ps3 re-release will be average MMO players lookin for a new mmo to try out. Not avid FFXIV fans who are looking forward to the game (except for a very few who were unable to afford a comp to play the game)
What is your own player name btw? I'm curious because of your first post in the thread.

I received crystals and shards from doing sidequests, tasks and leves, all of which new players can do from the start. The forums seems to have conjured up this idea of anyone not with an axe to grind against SE would defend even Mystic Quest to the death. SE seems to think we are the average player, why else would it have a forum and polls over when we would like to see implemented first as part of their changes? How do you think the cities looked at launch? This happens with most game populations I've played.

And as far as "Generic Stories that could be randomly placed in any game" You do know that most stories in all fiction can be broken down into several related plots. I can make Armageddon sound boring. I'm not expecting Shakespeare when I see a side quest. I want Shakespeare for my main quest, and the main quest takes quite a while for the new player to go through to even this point that people voted for more stuff to do in the interim, hence side quests, hence the task boards and guilds.