Discussion regarding quests

pezit

The reason i bring this topic up is because the massive amount of crappy quests in most popular MMO's, i believe most people can agree that the story and execution of most quests in modern MMO's are bad.

First of all one of the most praised things about WoW is the huge amount of quests in the game, as this means you won't have to grind at all. Grinding is generally thought as worthless and boring, most people disregards games completely after finding out they are mainly grind-based.

My theory is that most people doesn't like WoW cause of the awesome amount of quests, but because it's so fast to level. If there was alot less quests, but you still leveled pretty damn fast by mostly grinding i don't think it would be any less popular. When people think about grind they think about Lineage 2, this game takes crazy amounts of time to level, and even with a huge amount of quests offering good xp it would still take a year to get to max level.

The point i want to make is that maybe developers should stop adding huge amounts of crappy quests, and maybe instead have fewer quests, but with alot better storyline and execution(cause these would take time to create). And then in between these epic questlines add a bit of grind.

Whats everyones opinion on this?