SE's habit of placing limitations on just about everything

[odie]

I understand some limitations exist for a reason. However, I made an alt the other day and found that I didn't have access to the party finder until I had completed Sastasha......WHY?

[Qfox]

I have different opinion .. its that the game dont have enough limitation.. everything is accessible so easily
to the point where .. i have the feeling that i never felt in the old FFXI .. what else left to do.
leveling .. so easy and fast
content .. after couple of wipes become easy and predictable ..
everything is accessible just by 1 or 2 clicks from duty finder feature.
coil night ... all turns in 1 day ..
:/ its sad that i had to go play different games while waiting for new things to come

[Aaron_T]

I understand some limitations exist for a reason. However, I made an alt the other day and found that I didn't have access to the party finder until I had completed Sastasha......WHY?

I guess they just assume you should stick to the mainquestline instead of fate grinding or using pf. I dunno.
But I like how some things are limited. Like the market for instance.

[gamesmart]

Having played SWTOR as a preferred player for the better part of a year, I've learned to simply just try to work with whatever I have - sure, some of these limitations are really minor, almost petty, but everything's done for a reason - you may just disagree with the reasoning.

That being said, I believe the reason for not allowing access to Party Finder until after your first instance is for new people to understand how Duty Finder works as well, and not just have someone else create a party for them to join, and going through the one (tiny) loop for them.

[KraggyKor]

I understand some limitations exist for a reason. However, I made an alt the other day and found that I didn't have access to the party finder until I had completed Sastasha......WHY?

Not true, if DF was locked until you'd completed Sastasha you'd never be able to use it to get into the place to begin with!

All you need to do is unlock Sastasha, which is three simple main story quests on your new alt, no big deal there. In any case, why would you want to unlock DF if you're not going to do at least the first three dungeons and Ifrit to unlock GCs for your Mount ability? Even a non-story-mode toon is going to want mounts, not to mention the other core features like Retainers!

[odie]

Not true, if DF was locked until you'd completed Sastasha you'd never be able to use it to get into the place to begin with!

All you need to do is unlock Sastasha, which is three simple main story quests on your new alt, no big deal there. In any case, why would you want to unlock DF if you're not going to do at least the first three dungeons and Ifrit to unlock GCs for your Mount ability? Even a non-story-mode toon is going to want mounts, not to mention the other core features like Retainers!

I'm talking about the Party Finder, not the Duty Finder.