Do you complete optional stuff in games?

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I was just wondering what your thoughts are on optional quests and whatnot in games like are you the person that completes it no matter what or do you just ignore it? For me, it depends. If the optional stuff adds more to the story, gives items of use, isn't out of my way and isn't something that will take months to complete then I will do it. Like if you can beat the game with your end characters being around level 60-70 and there's a optional quest where you need to be level 300 (Yes I have played a few games like this)then that just seems ridiculous to do. Getting to level 60-70 took long enough. Trying to get to 300 is just crazy in my opinion. Also some side quests give you crazy awesome gear but you can only do the quest after you've beaten the game that seems useless to me. I just beat the game, there's no point in sweating over gear that I can never use because I've already beaten the game. There's nothing else to do unless there's more side quests after it. For me it boils down to if the optional stuff makes sense. If it seems like a waste then I won't do it.