Quote Originally Posted by Chiramu View Post
Are people upset because this is the first MMORPG to actually have a main storyline and they don't understand why they are suppose to follow along the story?

Every other MMORPG has never had an overarching story, this is the first one. Why don't people realise that this game is not WoW, WoW has never done anything like this "gating" but then WoW has never had a proper storyline. This is the first MMORPG I know that has story linking it with the expansion, the other story linking WoW with its' expansions was lore from previous games and novels.
Plenty of other MMOs have an overarching story (yes, even WOW). However they also appreciate that a significant number of players don't give a crap about the story, and would rather the NPCs just shut up and tell them how many space moose they need to kill for the next quest, and that from a purely gameplay perspective it's horrible design to force people to do excessive amounts of story quests, because when they're put up as an obstacle to content people will resent them and see them as a chore. MMO is probably the worst genre to try and make story-oriented because so many players are only interested in having a conveyor belt of shiny loot pinatas to have a whack at.