Exactly what I think!
thatās what I like to hear. I love options. I think ill play hard core mode first to see how it goes cant wait 
As it is mentioned in the current streamvideo, you have some trouble about a game without questmarkers. This makes me sad, because a game with questmarkers destroy the immersion.
It makes quests to be a kind of meta-game where you donĀ“t listen to people, donĀ“t look at the world and only search for questmarkers in your HUD. Your world is to detailed and done with love to do such a thing.
If you have to search for people, this is an important part of the game. So please stay at a thought on the hardcore-mode without questmarkers.
I have an Idea:
To have a world without questmarkers is difficult, because you have to ask people about other people and places. This canĀ“t be avoid, there will be a lot of text and voice. But I have an idea to avoid inflated dialog options: link it with your quest journal. Make people and places in the quest journal selectable as āsearchedā objects. So you could have one searched object at the time and this object will be an option in the dialog.
So you can ask everyone you meet for this objects. For example āthe Blacksmith of Samopseā.
You could ask someone in Rataje about him, and you probably will get the standard answer: "I donĀ“t know about him."
There could be tree types of answer:
1) unknown Every voiceactor should have the possibilty to say: āI donĀ“t know know about him/her/it.ā so you have 90% of all answers in one sentence.
2) uncertain information People who know it or him, but are not so important can answer something like this: āWell, look in Samopse about him/her/it.ā Every character should know every city or village in Kingdom come. In most cases this would be enough information to have a start point. This would be an manageable amount of sentences, because there are only nine locations with individual names:
Rataje, Sazava, Ledecko, Talmberk, Mrchojedy, Samopse, Vranik, Uzice and Stribrna Skalice.
Maybe you also could add some more uncairtain locations given as answers: In the forests, near the river, near the bridge, on the streets, near the fields, at the white house, at the wooden house, at the castle, at the church, in the village, in the town, at the mill, at the tavern and at the store So every Voiceactor should be possible to name this in a sentence, this unknown and uncertain informations.
3) accurate information Some characters should know more and answer specific things: "Oh yes, i know him. He lives in Sampose and often wears his red gugel, during the day you probably can find him at his forge at the center of Sampose."
Try to be as accurate as possible here. For example the in Alpha, the Bowmaster: āCome later to my archery range near the wood.ā, what about āCome later to my archery archery range UP near the wood.ā So everyone knows you donĀ“t have to search in a wood in a valley. But it is absoultly okay to let people search for someone or some place, this is an interesting part of the game!
This system could also be helpful to ask for a constant Quest:
Maybe you could select the get āa jobā object to get this as an dialog option. So you can ask everyone for a job. And as it is with other āsearchedā objects, also here could be the standard answer: āno, I havenĀ“t.ā, an uncertain information: āNo, maybe ask the blacksmith/miller/ barkeeperā, and of course, the accurate information: āyesā¦ open questline hereā.
Maybe there could be also an idea to make it possible to ask for food, money or a place to sleep with this system, and this question could lower your social status and of course most of the people would say āNo!ā
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I would really appreciate the possibility switching the modes.
look at the alpha. no quest marks. it works fine. we even discover some things not specifically mentioned. so i think itās possible without markers of any kind. compass can go as well 
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Yeah, its fine at the alpha. Beautiful, I love it. Really, but Dan is not sure if they should keep it this way, he talk about it during the streamvideo of the alpha.
Therefore we must persuade him.
Questmarkers are pure evil. They suck the joy out of the game. And they somehow negates the beauty of open world games and make them corridor like. You can give the player all information needed more creatively without doubt.
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Id like no quest marker option as wellā¦ but I want hand drawn maps that I can write on
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I donāt think that will be so hard find somebody even in larger town after npc daily cycle and stuff will be fixed.
Now you donāt know if bowman sleeping in the field or sitting on the roof.
Give us info, find XXX, he is XXX, he likes to go XXX and do XXX. Nice, letās go. No problem. Small challenge, maybe. But i like it. I hate going from marker to marker aka Skyrim.
- it add game beauty in exploring, finding stuff, new ways to do something etc.
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Exactly. 
Actually even for Skyrim there are mods that tries to get rid of the quest marker and update the quest descriptions the good old Morrowind way.
Actually at first I felt quite lost in Samopse in alpha. But soon I learrned the geography of the village and can orient myself even unconsciously now. I played the alpha for just maybe an hour. Itās similar even in case of big cities - e.g. Lost Heaven of Mafia. At the beginning of my first gameplay I got lost often. But after while I got used to the geography of the town and now I can orient myself even at high speed of automobile traffic without problems.
Why? Because the geography of Samopse (and Lost Heaven) makes sense. I suppose the geography of the whole game area would make sense (at least thatās something Dan talked and wrote about) - therefore we should be able to orient ourselves quite easily. Notice the peculiar shape of the hill on the other side of Samopse - perhaps you would be able to see it even from distance and therefore you will know there is Samopse at the foot of the hill. Or you would know that little stream tends to go down to the river. Etc. Perhaps you would like to hide yourself in the forest but at the same time need to orient yourself outside of it? Brilliant possibilities of emergent gameplay. In fact quite similar to my memoires of Flashpoint.
In the end you would be forced to scout every village and town before you would be able to navigate through it easily. And thatās surely good think. Itās immersive and only natural that in case you are a new person in a town you will have to know it before you can e.g. perform some thievery there without problems.
I would understand the need of quest markers for more casual players used to them. But please design the game with āno markersā approach in mind and let us at least choose whether we want to use them or not.
I would definitely prefer to play without them and even without the compass. 
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This is unnecessary if the game is what i expect it to be. Nobody gave anybody clear directions in Dark Souls, for instance, and the game is amazing nonetheless. Discovering the story on your own from tiiiiiny fragments is always fun. But back to the point: you only need semi-exact directions, just like in real life, provided the people and places stay relatively the same. I mean, in a realistic, no dragons game, such as this, some landscape elements will become your minimap. I just started playing and I am not looking at the compass at all (mainly because Iām not used to it; if I had a minimap or a lay-over minimap like PoE, I couldnāt help it) and it took me a few runs around the village but I can go to the forest at night and reach the witch and all and it feels great).
Therefore, super-exact directions are needed just as much as you need them in real life. Not really at all, if you can read roadsigns and people speak your language and you know WHAT youāre looking forā¦
I think we can have a personal journal (quest journal) which contains update-able entries about each quest. You can update those standard information pieces about each quest at will, as you find out more about the quest. The updated info should be standard-ish and easy to enter, no typing involved.
Every quest is a WHAT. And it needs a WHERE and a HOW. Thatās it. Usually you get a very distinct WHAT and a vague WHERE and/or HOW in the beginning. So every quest should have some standard changeable information that you can enter or not for you to view later.
For example, letās say you have to retrieve someoneās lost necklace. Thatās the WHAT. You also get some basic WHERE (āI lost it at the fare, I thinkā) and a hinted HOW (āI was with so-and-so, maybe you could ask themā etc.). Therefore, you should have the option of entering a new quest in your journal or not. Letās say you want to: now a new semi-standard quest page opens up, with some semi-strandard fields usually regarding the WHAT, WHERE and HOW. The WHAT field is the quest title and/or background story, the WHERE field contains standard details about location - village, house, person, place etc. and the HOW maybe some miscellaneous details related to your quest and maybe some personal strategy notes, donāt know. The information of any of those fields should be changeable. Hereās a way: from a few preset options/names generated based on the dialog that prompted the quest.
I think this is how quest markers and automatizations could be avoided. The game deserves a try in that direction and Iām sure better ideas than these can come about, by the way.