god the MSQ

[Destroi]

its like playing RDR2 and GTAV back to back twice, seriously, the story is great but its a huge freakin road to complete.. its kinda stupid.

vets will say "oh its good and you only get it once just enjoy it"

OK, play the ENTIRE story 1-80 all the way through before you can play your main again and tell me its reasonable.

it would be cool in pieces over the years but for a new player it kind of sucks

[Slaanesh]

So the same with any other mmo than that existed for longer

[galacticcorgi]

Don't burn through it? Like seriously, people who say this tend to blaze it down like it's an oasis in a desert and they're about to die of thirst.

[Walkerk19]

Where are you at now with MSQ?

[Destroi]

Originally posted by Slaanesh:

So the same with any other mmo than that existed for longer

not really

[Destroi]

Originally posted by Anakha:

Don't burn through it? Like seriously, people who say this tend to blaze it down like it's an oasis in a desert and they're about to die of thirst.

cool

[Destroi]

Originally posted by Anakha:

Don't burn through it? Like seriously, people who say this tend to blaze it down like it's an oasis in a desert and they're about to die of thirst.

im at lvl 77 full steam ahead

[Om3ga-Z3ro]

Dear Diary #2317647

REEEE MSQ

[Rob Boss]

this is a story driven mmorpg after all

[Optimus Prime Rib]

Originally posted by Destroi:

Originally posted by Slaanesh:

So the same with any other mmo than that existed for longer

not really

I mean i been playing mmorpgs for a very long time.... Ffxiv def has one of the longest MAIN stories EVER.... most dont or didnt make you follow the main story line to advance in content

[Oberon]

Originally posted by Pvt. BootyClap:

Originally posted by Destroi:

not really

I mean i been playing mmorpgs for a very long time.... Ffxiv def has one of the longest MAIN stories EVER.... most dont or didnt make you follow the main story line to advance in content

Probably because they've added more story to it every three and a half months for the past eight years.

[Ovan]

Originally posted by Destroi:

OK, play the ENTIRE story 1-80 all the way through before you can play your main again and tell me its reasonable.

That's your problem right there. It's the mentality you're bringing to the game.

The MSQ isn't the filler before the game. The MSQ IS the game.

FF14 is a JRPG then a MMO. People that say the MSQ is "too long" or "grindy", are missing the point that it wasn't made to be rushed through AND the "endgame" is there to give you something to do AFTER you played the story, which is the main event.

It's not a fault of the game, it's people wanting to ignore what the game was made to offer.

[DirtyMick]

Then play it in pieces over the years lol. That's what I'm doing. I was a new player when SB came out. Now I'm like halfway through stormblood. Started at lvl 54MSQ about a month ago after a long break. Idk what you mean by before you can play your main again though. Why can't you play your main again?

And man you're not kidding. It is LONG. They've been adding to it for like a decade almost. I compare it to playing ff7, ff8, and ff9 all in a row and going ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this storyline is so long lol. Of course it is.

[Om3ga-Z3ro]

Originally posted by Ovan:

Originally posted by Destroi:

OK, play the ENTIRE story 1-80 all the way through before you can play your main again and tell me its reasonable.

That's your problem right there. It's the mentality you're bringing to the game.

The MSQ isn't the filler before the game. The MSQ IS the game.

FF14 is a JRPG then a MMO. People that say the MSQ is "too long" or "grindy", are missing the point that it wasn't made to be rushed through AND the "endgame" is there to give you something to do AFTER you played the story, which is the main event.

It's not a fault of the game, it's people wanting to ignore what the game was made to offer.

This mentality stems from WoW's playstyle and many other games cultivated that style into theirs while FF14 took some of the ideas off of WoW and made something of their own.

[Drakzen]

That is a problem with any MMO game, especially ones that have lasted a long while and are story driven.

You can always just play it in chunks and not back to back 1-80, you've got 4-5 months to get through the main stuff so you don't need to rush.

[BrokenG3ars]

Originally posted by Anakha:

Don't burn through it? Like seriously, people who say this tend to blaze it down like it's an oasis in a desert and they're about to die of thirst.

Because they have no choice if they want to unlock content? Especially if they want to do things with friends? This isn't a normal MMO. It's either blaze through the story to unlock content, or do it at your own place and basically sit around with your thumbs up your butt the rest of the time once you've done your handful of roulette's at low content level.

Originally posted by Rob Boss:

this is a story driven mmorpg after all

Where does it say that you can't have a story focus AND have it be engaging and not restrictive? Many MMO's have a large focus on "story" and yet don't have this issue. It's unique to FFXIV.

Originally posted by Rob Boss:

this is a story driven mmorpg after all

Originally posted by Ovan:

Originally posted by Destroi:

OK, play the ENTIRE story 1-80 all the way through before you can play your main again and tell me its reasonable.

That's your problem right there. It's the mentality you're bringing to the game.

The MSQ isn't the filler before the game. The MSQ IS the game.

FF14 is a JRPG then a MMO. People that say the MSQ is "too long" or "grindy", are missing the point that it wasn't made to be rushed through AND the "endgame" is there to give you something to do AFTER you played the story, which is the main event.

It's not a fault of the game, it's people wanting to ignore what the game was made to offer.

The MSQ absolutely IS filler for many players. This is an MMO. Meaning players play it for the large amount of MMO content. Not the story. Yet in order to interact with much of that content unlike other games they are FORCED to do 100's of usually filler quests. FFXIV is an MMO. That's it. It is NOT a singleplayer JRPG. If the story wasn't meant to be "rushed through" then why is content locked behind it? Wouldn't it make more sense to allow players to interact with and do the story at their own pace? Again, FFXIV is an MMO. It was made and designed as an MMO. So many of it's continued sub numbers are due to the MMO content. It was made to offer a story AND lots of varying MMO content. Period.

Originally posted by Drakzen:

That is a problem with any MMO game, especially ones that have lasted a long while and are story driven.

You can always just play it in chunks and not back to back 1-80, you've got 4-5 months to get through the main stuff so you don't need to rush.

False. This problem is unique to FFXIV. All other MMO's questing is for the most part divorced and separate from main content. You are largely free to progress through the game and it's content however you wish, interacting and doing the story as you desire because in most cases the only content locks are based on character level or gear level. FFXIV has these AS WELL AS senseless quest locks.