Quest Markers

Hello,

I am getting quite annoyed by these questmarkers. I think they got introduced in WoW. At the time it was new and it was proper. I think the game wouldn't have worked without them.

But I can remember a time where games would instead just play a cutscene at certain points or just automatically engage you in a diaglogue. Where's the point in quest markers? Why are games not doing the old-fashioned way anymore? Seems to me the reason WoW used quest markers was, because it was an open world. Not really the case here, is it?

Is there really a benefit in using them over just making you engage in dialogue automatically? Would it be too much to ask if dialogue was simply flavour and not quest-related? Are quests even necessary for a game like this to work? Does the player get some kind of feeling of agency if you make them click on a person, because they have some kind of giant, weird looking relic-thing above their head?

Anyway, so much about quest markers.



In kind regards