Story can't make up for the grind

Unfortunately, this game has an amazing story, specifically on my Sith Warrior. The only problem is it's hard to enjoy it when you have to constantly keep doing meaningless tasks to gain you xp. Before you say, "Well, there's voice-overs and they explain why you're doing it" it doesn't matter. Whether I can have someone explain something to me or not, I keep doing the same repeated style quests over and over.

If you want to talk about immersion, these quests ruin it, the entire game. I want to see more and the end of my class quest line but I can't just work my way through agonizing quests such as "kill x 10 times" or "collect x 15" Then proceed to do bonus quests, which are optional but are so useful they make you feel required to do them, which are typically all grind quests.

An idea to increase interest in quests that are there to just level you up, is to make dynamic events or to increase the entertainment value of the quest, such as, boarding a ship, fighting your way through republic/empire forces an infiltrate a certain ship/area. These, of course would take more time but you could increase the experience value of the quest to make up for the lack of quests (or maybe not) there is because of these.

I just can't keep attempting to play an MMORPG where, like I said, unfortunately, have to keep doing meaningless quests to level up so I can enjoy the part of the game. Since I don't think this game is ever going to change this, I don't feel the need to play it anymore unless I somehow find the desire to push through this chaos.

Also, increase activity on the planet, stale NPC's standing around and just groups of enemy npc's standing around don't really make you feel like you're apart of something epic/big. It's more like "here's the npc's that you need to talk to, here's the npc's you have to kill, here's some boxes you have to collect, here's your xp." It just never ends and I'm extremely disappointed but I'm starting to lose faith in MMORPGs that keep following this same formula where you feel like you're doing more work then having fun.

But but but its not the same quest over and over! You get different lines and choices!

It does for me.

/thread

What grind?

The one I just explained?

^^^^^

You want to play Saints Row the third. You are burnt out on mmo's.

I don't see it.

Actually, I did play that and I don't really like that game either.

Although, you are probably right...I feel like MMO's are just a never-ending copy paste to me now and I'm soo tired of dedicating so much time to them when I'm really not having that much fun. I just want to see max level, but getting there is taking ages.

If doing quests are a "grind" to you then RPG's aren't for you.