NCWest. Please. Talk to NCSoft and make them reconsider and restore the blue side quests. Do you tear off and burn the previous pages of a book (or manga) you are reading? Do you break and throw away the blue ray of previous episodes of a series (or anime) you are watching? No. If you like them, you keep them lovingly. Because if you like them, you like to reread them, rewatch them, replay this or that part. Don't cut the tongues out of hundreds of citizens of the Blade and Soul realm. They had much to tell us about why and how things happened that the main story line never discloses. What harm had they ever done to you, that you had to silence them forever and bury all their insights and revelations?
Please, restore their voices and their tales and our interactions with them. This is a very sad day if you don't, the day you squeezed something vast and richer into a small space that can only offer a few dungeons to run for the hope of a silver scale drop...