Thoughts on Isgard Lockout.

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It's becoming increasingly clear as I read these forums(which I don't know why I do) that so many of you just don't understand like, the fundamentals of human behavior. Having new classes locked behind a year's worth of post 50 content is a mind-numbingly stupid decision that I guarantee will make a lot of really bad waves once Heavensward hits. This is a 4 million sub game, bone headed moves like this will get noticed.

Now, WHY is it bone headed? Because expansions are made to expand the content and bring back old players who relapsed and new players with the excitement of what's added. They added two VERY popular new classes, which would get a lot of people talking and thinking "hey maybe I should check out that final fantasy game. You know, the one built off of the ashes of an MMO so bad they burned it all down and made a new one." If they have to get through all this and then all this to try out one of the Cool New Classes that were added, they're not gonna be happy! I don't care if you grumble like a country-club stereotype about "ENTITLEMENTS" and "HANDOUTS," this is how humans behave and they're going to be disappointed that they can't try the stuff they wanted to try from this cool new expansion pack they bought.

As a new player myself I completely agree with you and i'm looking forward to the shit storm that hits once heavensward is released it should be pretty entertaining reading. The ONLY reason I even started playing this game is because I heard about the upcoming expansion and saw the new characters and races and got really excited to play an astrologian. Now originally I was going to just wait until the expansion hit to start playing at all but due to just being bored and impatient i decided to start playing about a month ago and thank god i did or I would have been royally screwed and not just a little bit pissed off at this news. And lemme tell you I only recently found out about this because they do a really great job of hiding it from new players.

It never would have occurred to me "and i'm very sure other new players are the same" that I would have been locked out of new content or would have not been able to play the new class coming into the game as no other recent mmo does this when an expansion hits. Heck the entire purpose of an expansion is to entice new and old players to return but this game is doing it ass backwards imo. I can tell you with 100% surety that had I waited until the day of the expansion to play and then been hit with this horrible news I would have raged hard and gotten my money back and never again looked at another ff game. I cannot believe that they are releasing it in this state and pretty much giving new players a gigantic FU.

From a purely business perspective this is the most retarded decision they could possibly make. The only people I see happy about this are the elitist/entitled players who think they deserve this and have that "new players need to suffer like they did" mentality. To them i say grow up it's not all about you and new players being able to play new content isn't hurting you in any way besides your petty digital pride.