Forcing us to the entire story quest to unlock the new classes is just bad business

I want all the people who think gating the entirety of an expansion behind all of ARR's Main Quest to think about how it's going to be for people in 4.0. Are they going to have to complete all of ARR/HW just to play it? That's a really damned high wall to experience new content.

The lore reason for gating the expansion needs to stop. Why? Ishgard was opened for the Warrior of Light and his/her allies. Not for every adventurer in Eorzea to waltz through the gates. Yet, I see a crapton of adventurers running around the new areas. Gameplay trumps lore in this instance, stop using lore as an excuse to justify such a bad business move.

Speaking of business, an expansion for an MMO is made for all of 3 reasons:

1- To give current players new content to sink there teeth into, so they'll keep paying that subscription fee.

2- To entice former players with the promise of new jobs/areas/etc to return to the game, and thus renew that subscription fee.

3- To entice new players to give the game a shot, with new jobs/areas/etc and yep, pay that subscription fee.

Gating access to the entirety of the expansion behind the completion of the main quest blocks 2 of the 3 reasons the content was made for. That's bad business. Period.

Gating parts of the expansion behindthe main quest, raids/dungeons is fine, but ALL of it? No, that's just asinine.

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I want all the people who think gating the entirety of an expansion behind all of ARR's Main Quest to think about how it's going to be for people in 4.0. Are they going to have to complete all of ARR/HW just to play it? That's a really damned high wall to experience new content.

The lore reason for gating the expansion needs to stop. Why? Ishgard was opened for the Warrior of Light and his/her allies. Not for every adventurer in Eorzea to waltz through the gates. Yet, I see a crapton of adventurers running around the new areas. Gameplay trumps lore in this instance, stop using lore as an excuse to justify such a bad business move.

Speaking of business, an expansion for an MMO is made for all of 3 reasons:

1- To give current players new content to sink there teeth into, so they'll keep paying that subscription fee.

2- To entice former players with the promise of new jobs/areas/etc to return to the game, and thus renew that subscription fee.

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Which makes sens for them to revisit ARR when 4.0 comes out. Remove the gate/lessen the time it takes to aquire for ARR to HW but now have the gate set at 3.X to 4.0. Move the goal posts. Kinda like they have been doing all along with the rest of their content. Right now, it's fine. Down the road, it will be revisited.

And how is it bad for buisness to put something that players want behind at least a months worth of content. Is the MSQ really that hard?

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3- To entice new players to give the game a shot, with new jobs/areas/etc and yep, pay that subscription fee.

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Everything in the game is new content to a new player. Literally everything.

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Originally Posted by MageBlack

Is the MSQ really that hard?

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Steps of Faith. /s

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WoW has no story line or main story line mmkay. Being a player since vanilla I can tell it has way more lore and in depth story than FF has. WoD is, and the direction the game went is the only reason I am playing ffxiv.

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WoW has 10 years of content behind it, AND YET another 10 years on top of that due to the Warcraft RTS games behind it. Of course it has more lore.

It's like stating England has more history than the US.

Regarding WoW having more depth than 14. This is a matter of perception. I believe it to be the other way around.

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I want all the people who think gating the entirety of an expansion behind all of ARR's Main Quest to think about how it's going to be for people in 4.0. Are they going to have to complete all of ARR/HW just to play it? That's a really damned high wall to experience..

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I had the same thought. I don't think HW and 4.0 will require all of 2.0 to do. It's just that storyline wise 3.0 is a direct sequel to 2.0

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WoW has 10 years of content behind it, AND YET another 10 years on top of that due to the Warcraft RTS games behind it. Of course it has more lore.

It's like stating England has more history than the US.

Regarding WoW having more depth than 14. This is a matter of perception. I believe it to be the other way around.

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Yes it does which is why if had read the post I quoted you would realize I was correcting the posters statement about it not having any.

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Steps of Faith. /s

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Has already had a huge nerf. My 9yo son beat it without me even at home to help him out. More nerfs will come to 2.X content as time goes on. I thought MMO junkies would understand that?

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Has already had a huge nerf. My 9yo son beat it without me even at home to help him out. More nerfs will come to 2.X content as time goes on. I thought MMO junkies would understand that?

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Sarcasm; did you not see the /s?

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Sarcasm; did you not see the /s?

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Lol, i was wondering what that /s meant. lol anyway, the last part of my post was more directed to all these people posting here who moan and wail about things in this game as though they will NEVER change.

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Yes it does which is why if had read the post I quoted you would realize I was correcting the posters statement about it not having any.

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Apologies, took it the wrong way. ^^

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Lol, i was wondering what that /s meant. lol anyway, the last part of my post was more directed to all these people posting here who moan and wail about things in this game as though they will NEVER change.

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No worries. Apologies if I sounded rude.

Things will change over time to make it a lot more easier. That's pretty much a given. It's just the mentality that they have to get everything immediately and right now that is the problem. It irks me whenever I see that kind of attitude. Please, just trot through the game at your own pace and enjoy the game. Seriously. There isn't any point in rushing anymore what with the recent changes they made to ARR content.

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Plus, Heavensward isn't going anywhere. You didn't pay for the base game and the expansion to only play the expansion content. :p

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I want all the people who think gating the entirety of an expansion behind all of ARR's Main Quest to think about how it's going to be for people in 4.0. Are they going to have to complete all of ARR/HW just to play it? That's a really damned high wall to experience new content.

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I would hazard a guess they will follow their previous IP and branch out off another aspect of the main ARR story. There are several plot lines still left open that trace back to events in ARR they can build off of. They could easily follow precedent and break off down another story arc linked to something that happened between 2.1 and 2.5, and the requirement would be that they have progressed through to that part of the story--which most of the existing player base already has done, and any new players will still have the extra benefits recently implemented to aid them in getting through to that point in the ARR story arcs--they may even get more of a boost, who knows. There is already a bit of foreshadowing going on in 3.0 that hints that we will be going back and dealing with issues in the three city-states eventually, so it isn't too unreasonable to expect future content will involve those old plot lines.

EVERYTHING you are seeing done here has been done before...and quite successfully at that. Don't see any reason to be worried that they won't continue with those successes in the future.

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No worries. Apologies if I sounded rude.

Things will change over time to make it a lot more easier. That's pretty much a given. It's just the mentality that they have to get everything immediately and right now that is the problem. It irks me whenever I see that kind of attitude. Please, just trot through the game at your own pace and enjoy the game. Seriously. There isn't any point in rushing anymore what with the recent changes they made to ARR content.

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Plus, Heavensward isn't going anywhere. You didn't pay for the base game and the expansion to only play the expansion content. :p

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No worries! That was my fault for not picking up on the sarcasm. But I agree. Take your time, enjoy the game. I'm quite pleased to see this gating to be honest. I wish more games and other mediums would do that. I was reading a book series (Sword of Truth) and a friend skipped the first 5 books then started giving details away and was very confused about some things so he kept asking me cause I was reading them in order. Same with TV series, If you skip the first two seasons of Game of Thrones then you miss out on lots of juicy details.

Gating a game like this is something I used to stress on my kids, Beat the first game first then go to the next one. They got the Jak and Daxter 3 game combo pack and I made them go through each game. in the end they thanked me for it. After that they can pick their favorite and replay but the series makes so much more sense if you play them all through. I have dabbled in many other MMORPG's and they all felt the same to me, empty and pointless. Sure there was content but nothing drew me in to the world and made me feel involved in the lore or its characters. What story and lore they had was all in walls of text and completely skippable and irrelevant. (with a few exceptions, like SWtOR but they died off.)

Keep it up SE, Keep the RPG in MMORPG!

Being a beta tester, and being on the opinion of "Welp thats too bad for you" I took the time to read a lot of these comments from new(er) players.

So my opinion has slightly changed as I gave it a little more thought. The new jobs start at 30, like most of the jobs. So I don't see why it would be an issue to allow access to Ishgard at 30, and thus have access to the new jobs. Hell you can still keep everything else gated and the Cs that plays when you first walk in locked until you walk in with the pre-requirements.

Hell the Machinist's job quest giver is in the 2.0 zone. Dark Knights just hangs out on a walk way.
I dont think this is too much to ask nor is really breaking anything. The only major flag it violate is the whole "Can't go to ishgard blah blah gates of judgment blah blah" hell if you opened it up at 30 that means folks would have to actually make the trip through Coerthas to hit Ishgard. Which isn't even that hard especially with mounts.

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Being a beta *SNIP*

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That should be the logical thing to do. As soon as you reach 30, instantiate some part of Ishgard where the quest givers are, let them give you the quests to initiate the jobs.

I don't mind Ishgard being gated behind story, but the new jobs being gated behind the story, totally duhhh..would love to understand the reasoning behind it from the developers...but like I always say..2 years later we still can't queue with our chocobos out...so keep your expectations low:)

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WoW has no story line or main story line mmkay. Being a player since vanilla I can tell it has way more lore and in depth story than FF has. WoD is, and the direction the game went is the only reason I am playing ffxiv.

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WoW has lore, but only if you take the time to find out and read and immerse yourself in the role play aspect of it. But the game is designed to be more open ended, you are not being put on a roller coaster straight to the finish line level 50 via MSQ like FF14. In WoW you are free to roam, picking up quests in each areas you visited, wandering around and just "get lost in the world". No "Dominatrix Bikini Chick" ordering you around to do her errands and her band of merry useless NPCs who cannot do anything right lol.

As cheesy as FF14 story may be, I like how the game is very structured, extremely linear, and put a big huge training wheel and strap you on a roller coaster ride that you MUST take if you want to unlock the game contents. No OPTIONS. It makes sure that everyone has to experience the same thing as the game creator has intended. Even if you are in favor of SKIP every single CS. We all know most North America player can barely read, even when everything is pointed to you ON SCREEN how you should defeat the boss. And a big HUGE red circle pretty much telling you to MOVE out of AOE range...

Still don't get all these uproars. If you are already play FF14, all you have to do is measly patches MSQ which goes super fast to complete. You also DO WANT to get all level 120-130 gears to better prepare you for 3.0. And why cheat yourself out of the rich amount of content that 2.55 edition has? Every new player has to get to 50, instead of wandering around getting lost, the structure of the game make sure you can get there with minimal effort. Though you will be surprised how many of them reach level 30 without doing any single dungeons (not even aware those exist lol) - or unlocking jobs (they never do any class quests from level 5-30 either). Just to show you, SE can explain everything RIGHT in your FACE till you are BLUE, but you can't do much when players just SKIP everything.

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I don't mind Ishgard being gated behind story, but the new jobs being gated behind the story, totally duhhh..would love to understand the reasoning behind it from the developers.

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That's because you're only taking into consideration from a lore perspective. They could have done something different. So why did they restrict them to Ishgardian areas? You'll have to turn your thinking around. Instead of, "Why did they gate it behind Ishgard," you should be thinking, "Why restrict it to players who have completed the 2.55 MSQ?"

Not going to too much into it, so here's a link. Anyway, from a design perspective, there could have been some restrictions and problems when they wanted to implement the jobs. Mainly because they are classified as jobs and not base classes, nor do they even have a base class to begin with. They are also unlocked at level 30 so you can equip the soul stones. Newer players may get confused when thrown with all those skills in one go. Implementing it in a way that a new player can understand it, would require them to change the level you obtain the job to level one so as to ease them into the job. This is currently impossible as they don't have a base class. That's probably why the developers did so.

The other option I can see is that they put in base classes, but that wouldn't make sense because they wanted to avoid the class system altogether.

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While I understand the rationale behind gating Ishgard and the new classes with the MSQ, it sort of surprises me that the developers didn't include something that wasn't gated.

For instance, a smallish new zone with no MSQ gate. Some part of Thanalan or Gridania that was recently rediscovered. Or that one of the cities decided to try to tame in order to have somewhere to send those darned refugees. Nothing huge like the new Ishgard areas. Maybe include a smallish dungeon.

Some playable content available more easily than that behind the MSQ gate. That could have been done in a way that maintained the story integrity and offered something to new players.

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It would be nice, but then people would have even less of a reason to buy the expansion. Square's goal is to make the expansion enticing enough for people to want to buy it cause money. They can't keep constantly making patches for old stuff for free forever.

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Plus, Heavensward isn't going anywhere. You didn't pay for the base game and the expansion to only play the expansion content. :p

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Actually I didn't even buy the expansion because as someone who is not currently max level there is almost no benefit in me doing so. So I will have to play a class that I'm not wanting to play to level 50+ so that I can unlock a job that I want to play. Maybe I will get bored before that and I'll just end up not purchasing the expansion. How many people will end up doing just that? Missed opportunity on SE's part.

There are SO many trash quests between Ramuh and Before the Fall that they honestly could just put as optional quests without affecting the story. On the other hand I do enjoy the continuity but my god does the 2.0 story get boring as hell at times.

why the hell are people hating on a realm reborn, why is everyone rushing to heavensward, is it that bad terrible and dreadful????? i mean come on, if u hate it that much why the hell did u get the game in the first place? it takes u like 3 days to reach the ending now and do the quests some of the quests are perfect. why are you whining so much? if u like tanking go with paladin or warrior, if u like healing u have 2 wonderful jobs, if u like dpsing u have 6 amazing jobs, u need them anyway for the cross class skills

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Maybe I will get bored before that and I'll just end up not purchasing the expansion. How many people will end up doing just that? Missed opportunity on SE's part.

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Not to sound rude or anything, but if you do get bored of the base game before you reach the expansion, then you will get bored when you reach the expansion. If you didn't like the story now, you probably won't like it later. It isn't really a "missed opportunity" on their part since you actually did buy the game. In the event that you do trudge on and reach the expansion without getting bored, then you have a lot of great content ahead of you. I've barely scratched the surface of the expansion, and it's pretty great so far. I'd say it's a missed opportunity on your part.

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why the hell are people hating on a realm reborn, why is everyone rushing to heavensward

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It's always been the way that old content is considered rubbish while new content is considered good. Doesn't matter how good that content is at the end of the day, it's still 'old' and therefore the loot it gives is 'old' which inevitably translates to 'rubbish' by the modern player.

There's this mindset that exists in FFXIV that if you're not at the bleeding edge of the game, you're left behind in the wake of everyone else. To some degree, that's true since new areas means new things to obtain. New loot to find, new items to harvest. Whatever it is that takes your fancy, that's content gated behind the MSQ. For my part, I really enjoyed the older content. I loved the story, and I enjoyed the journey from humble beginnings to warrior of light.

I'd still encourage anyone playing the game for the first time to kick back and enjoy the ride. There's more to gaming than the endgame.

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Not to sound rude or anything, but if you do get bored of the base game before you reach the expansion, then you will get bored when you reach the expansion. If you didn't like the story now, you probably won't like it later. It isn't really a "missed opportunity" on their part since you actually did buy the game.

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Their missed opportunity is that they would have $40 more from me right now if there was anything worthwhile in the expansion for a lower level character, because I didn't buy the expansion They would be $40 richer whether I liked the story or not simply if the new classes were available to me. Many people have returned to the game for the expansion. There is always a player turnover but there will be a larger player turn over when the expansion isn't even available to many returning players. Not to mention the ones that don't even come back because of this fact.

Has this been dropped in here yet? Is worth to listen.

All this complaining and I bet these complainers are already done with the story >.>

There seems to be a counter argument more or less stating that gating these three classes is crucial to prevent noobs from ruining the dungeon/raid experience of veteran players.

That by gating the classes, the new players can learn all about the dungeons and become efficient at their roles along with the steep learning curve that comes with each respective classes.

So if say little Billy who is new decided to lv grind to 50, did all his quests as a White Mage and suddenly wanted to pick up Dark Knight. Would Billy know the basics of how to play a Tank despite grinding through MSQ and it's filler contents throughout as a White Mage? He might have picked up few things here and there but in all honesty no I highly doubt Billy would be a competent Tank compared to those of us who simply started out with a tanking role from Lv1.

This whole argument of gating classes behind the reasoning is outright ridiculous.

I also can't help but wonder if some of you are mistaken or confused. We aren't asking SE to allow complete noobs to start their adventures at Lv50 as one of the three new classes.

Yes you are right in thinking that some of us feel that the new classes are too complex to learn and overwhelming. Then why not let people play from lower levels with less abilities unlocked instead so that they can get used to the classes gradually? This would solve the problem of having noobs ruining dungeon/raid experience and give them time to learn their class while delivering the 3 classes to everyone. Those who finished the MSQ can start their 3 classes as lv30 as we do already as a nice gesture of SE saying Congrats you're not a complete noob so you get to start at lv30.

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They would be $40 richer whether I liked the story or not simply if the new classes were available to me. Many people have returned to the game for the expansion.

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And your point is? Returning players would most likely have known about the MSQ being a requirement from when it was announced months ago - unless, of course, they live under a rock. They don't have to buy the expansion right away, y'know. Grab a sub, hop into the game, complete what is required, and boom; access to the expansion once they buy it. There isn't any rush unless you make it one.

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Then why not let people play from lower levels with less abilities unlocked instead so that they can get used to the classes gradually?

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This.

It is not bad business at all unless you have proof that more people are quitting over it than staying of which you do not, you can't please everyone all of the time. Some of us like the fact content is gated behind story progression while others do not...however neither has proof they are the majority and SE will continue to gain people and lose people regardless of whether was gated behind story or not. Different people like different things...that's just how the world works and what pleases some would not please others.

90% of you people that "quit" and only came back for Heavensward and its content are gonna end up "quitting" again anyway. At least this way you can just quit again while you're ahead instead of wasting hundreds of hours only to reach the same conclusion you did last time that this game just isn't for you.

I really don't get the complaints. If you haven't finished 2.0 don't buy the expansion. There is plenty of content for you to do in A Realm Reborn and all of the Heavensward content will still be there in a year. Not only that you'll have more stuff to do. I get it that a new expansion is out and you're hyped but like others have stated, if you didn't care enough about 2.0 to finish it you won't care too much about 3.0 either. FFXIV is a subscription based MMO. Getting a few hundreds of thousand people to pick up the expansion and play for a month then quit again isn't as profitable as keeping subscribers and getting tens of thousand of new recurring subs indefinitly.

The classes are in Ishgard because there is LORE to the classes, which is what FF is all about even if it is an MMO. Do you even know the lore of your character being a warrior of light? You can't just have one becoming a DRK without going through the steps. Go play another MMO, Plenty of us like stuff being locked behind the story, It's called progression.

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You actually had to be rank 6 in your starter nation to start RotZ--as in Shadow Lord fight (remember how that tied into DRK's back story? Oh wait...you had to complete most of WotG to fully appreciate it's back story...).

XI's content releases were not "separate"--parallel past certain points in the main story maybe, but not separate. All the other content you mentioned was also gated as well. Most everything in XI was gated behind something---any combination of 1 or more things would deny you access: reputation, nation rank, level, job, imperial standing, allied standing, mission/quest track, time of day (real life or in-game), season (real life or in-game), weather, moon phase... May be more. Those are just things off the top of my head.

Gating is far more common than I think some if you may realize. At least they were up front with Heavensward. Not like there wasn't any disclosure/disclaimer out there telling people they needed to progress to a certain point in the main story for access.

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This.... people complaining or whining must be little children or something, as they are not making sense.

FFXI - had Fame points for each nation that you couldn't even see but every quest you did went towards it. To unlock ninja you had to have a certain fame combination between nations.. and you had to have had a certain part of the expansion completed to access Norg to unlock Ninja and Samurai ( which also had other pee-requsets to unlock).

This isn't WoW or any half arsed game company. This is Square-Enix... the grandaddy of all RPG/game studio. They are known for delivering top notch story telling, visuals, music and art.
Everyone complaining about gated content, grow up, as its not going to change, the story is very important for this game and having new jobs unlock, as a new player, would makes little too no sense... where would dark knight and the 2 Jobs skill missions be, if SE just allowed access from the log in screen?....

Are you going to do them all in Uldah,, Limsa and Gridania...?? Does that even make any sense, or have any logic to it.....?

This is not some 2nd or 3rd rate company putting out some bubble gum MMOrpg for the year, "before we go free-to play".(Square Enix does not do free to play with major triple AAA titles (expressing those A's).

You all should have be with us(Final Fantasy fans from the start). Instead of all this childish whining that I'm hearing.... all of you that had no love for this game, complaining and saying this game sucked.. Now its coool and awesome.... and you want to join in.

Well guess what? You have to play from the start and enjoy the ride and the story, lore behind the world. Just think of FF14 as one big single play RPG and there just happens to be others sharing the same world as you. There is no skipping or never will be any skipping of the main arc as it will not make sense to new people. And all we would get are these new people asking stupid questions on the forums.


....*:rolleyes: sheeesh*

Not sure if this was already posted but ZAM had an interview with Yoshida.
Story was the given reason for the gating.

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ZAM: Why the choice to have players complete all the old main scenario quest to start the expansion content?

Yoshida: I think of Final Fantasy 14 heavens whereas the second season to a television program, where as a realm reborn was our first season. So when you watch a television program, you don’t watch it from the second season, you watch it from the first season so they know what’s going on. Heavens word that’s the second season. You have your first episode of that second series is heavens word breathe right now. We talk about the story, but story is important part of the Final Fantasy series and experiencing that story is something that we want the players to do and that’s why we decided this way.But I’m as you mentioned before, we understand that it takes a while to get to that 2.55 content and play through it, and that’s why we’ve lowered the hurdle with all those things we mentioned before. We want players to see it, but we’ve allowed players to watch that first season on fast-forward, binge watch it, and get the second season.

There are shows like CSI where people can start in the 7th season, and they’ve made it so that people can start in the 7th season and not be lost. But for us it’s still our second season and we want our players to follow the story. Maybe in the future when we release our 4th or 5th or 6th expansion we can have a shortcut so the players can get to that piece, but that’s way out there – for now we’re focusing on the second season.

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If there's one thing I give SE, they are very adamant in their cause which I highly respect them for it.

Let's say the restriction to these classes weren't there. Ok, now what? You can only level up to 50 and all of Ishgard would still be locked off to you. There'd be nothing to do.

Im going to play devils advocate and take the side of OP given that when you buy a product you expect to get said product once transaction is complete. what HS did was basically sell you a candy bar then tell you you cant eat it until next month.
you still get the candy bar but your stuck waiting a month to finally taste it which was the whole point of buying it to begin with...anyone seeing my point.

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Im going to play devils advocate and take the side of OP given that when you buy a product you expect to get said product once transaction is complete. what HS did was basically sell you a candy bar then tell you you cant eat it until next month.
you still get the candy bar but your stuck waiting a month to finally taste it which was the whole point of buying it to begin with...anyone seeing my point.

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But it's not a standalone thing. It's an addition to what's there.

Also, the information was readily available that you had to go through the MSQ.
So it'd be more like the shopkeeper told you you could pre-order your "candy bar" and eat it in a month.
Or I dunno, hold off buying it till next month when you can actually taste it.

There are plenty of better analogies for this where you buy something that requires something else.
Refills, extensions, add-ons. That's what this expansion is, expanded on the base game.
So you can buy the bundle, but you still have to set up the base before utilizing the additions.

You can talk about how much you may or may not like that design, but it's not like they did some bait and switch.
Again, the information was readily available.
Even other MMOs that don't tie the expansion to the story will still level gate the expansion areas.
Though that's less strict, it's still the same idea that you can buy the expansion but you have to do things in the base game (level) to experience what you paid for.

Really a very basic concept.
The difference is that this game has a vision of how the game's priorities that don't just include levels.
And that's what you part and parcel with theme park MMOs, the content is developer driven rather than player driven.
Not understanding that is just Buyer's Remorse.

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Let's say the restriction to these classes weren't there. Ok, now what? You can only level up to 50 and all of Ishgard would still be locked off to you. There'd be nothing to do.

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Though I agree with the gating, I think they should've made the new Jobs start at 50.
They're the Ishgard related jobs and they require you to do 50 content to get them unlocked.

Like a new players wants to play X Job. They have to get to the point of HW to do it.
That seems fine to me, they're HW Jobs.
But then you go back to ARR stuff with the HW Jobs and you're back to 30.

I, also, sort of empathize with people who really need to identify with a Job to play it.
I don't think it's too much to ask them to be open to other classes enough to get through ARR.
I think it's a bit much to ask them to do that then lose 20 levels and climb back up to get back to where you reached in the story.

They should be able to continue the story after unlocking their new Job, at 50.
That's the only thing I think they should've done differently in regards to the gating.

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Not sure if this was already posted but ZAM had an interview with Yoshida.
Story was the given reason for the gating.



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Excellent. Its almost exactly what I figured they would do. Makes sense right now and will make sense to adjust in the coming expansions.

The problem with comparing it to tv shows though is that if you want to start watching the second season, you can. You're not locked out until you watch the first,that would be ridiculous. And really what would be missed in the story, its mostly mindless missions you could sum up the actual story in a few minutes. I could probably do it here in a few sentences.