The biggest problem with grindy quests... (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Saturday, September 26, 2015, 17:01 (3442 days ago) @ Korny

Is that people will treat them as their main quest.

I remember one of Cody's recent Whine-of-the-day posts that complained about the Dreadnaught shards., saying that such a quest had no place in Destiny. But here's the thing, they do have a place. Quests can't all be "pick this and be done in 20 minutes for sweet loot".
Some are about delayed gratification. Have that quest? Don't track it. Forget about it. Leave it in the background and focus on quests that you want to do, and be surprised when you get a notification that you've made progress, or check on it down the road and be pleasantly surprised at the progress you've made.

No.

A quest is supposed to be an adventure in and of itself. We play video games for fun tasks and challenges. If you want delayed gratification, then delay the steps like with Jolly Holliday.

Everything you ask your players to do should be fun. Period. I'm still on the 'get 50 hadium flakes' portion of the quest Cruel is talking about, but am delaying it because it's so damn lame.

Your suggestion is also lame, since if you can do a quest without even trying to do it then what kind of quest is that?! I guess I'll just incidentally slay that dragon and save the princess while I'm doing some other thing.