Yeah, I will ask my friends to do those fetching quests with me ! Sounds so fun, quality online experience /s.
If all the story quests were about raids/trials/group content I wouldn't mind at all. Except it is not.
Also I like how you nitpick anything and try to twist it.
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zito I get it, your brain can't go further than "final fantasy" and that's why you don't understand anything.
But lemme explain it to you so you can understand : I don't mind doing the story quests when they are relevant aka when FFXIV was just released, I did those story quests and it did not bother me at all because a) i could play the job i wanted and I paid for. b) it was current content.
When Heavensward was released, I did the story quests for the same reason but I was really annoyed that I had to do dungeon farming/fates farming in order to level up my AST but whatever, it wasn't that bad since i already had a level 50 so it didn't take quite as long.
With Stormblood, I will enjoy doing the story quests because it's current .
Now the thing I'm talking about that your brain can't process is : new players see the red mage in the next expac. They're like "yeah ! that job sounds interesting (not everyone knows what FF is about)" so they buy the game, then the expac, then the second expac .... and then they realize they have to do hours of OUTDATED content with a class they may not like.
"but don't buy the game then" yeah... that's a issue. Keep the story mandatory in current content, make old story optional once new expac is out.
You all get to do the story, you make the game more appealing to new players/old players that want to come back after a long break.
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And the worst thing is that after being forced to do those outdated content with a job you don't want to play... you'll have to GRIND the old dungeons/fates in order to level the job you like. Yaaaaaay