[FFXIV] Main quest: You’re such a very important person that recruiters are banging down your door to get your services, you’re changing the world.

Also Main Quest: Now fuck around with sylphs for an hour and then do an incredibly long and unrelated fetch quest chain all the way to Upper La Noscea

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Hey Squeenix, here’s a formula for a satisfying game loop.

1. Main quest in which I am told to go to a new area because it’s under some sort of threat.
2. I go to the new place and am briefed on the nature of the threat.
3. I do a number of quests in which I investigate and/or make headway dealing with the threat.
4. The new area also has a number of sidequests available.

5. After completing the main quests, a dungeon/trial opens up.
6. After I complete the dungeon, I get congratulations and told of a new area that needs my help.

THERE. DONE. IT’S NOT HARD.

Why the fuck are you making me do a fucking four-part fetch quest to douse a random drunk with a bucket of water??????

ARR story is rough

that's basically the exact loop of Stormblood now that you lay it out