Unlocking Content

[Ashkendor]

As a raider? Yes.

Most end gamers only care about the dungeons and loot. Story comes last.

Maybe for you. I thoroughly enjoyed the story behind the Coils, as did the people in my raid static.

You guys are really focusing on the wrong part here its not about the story .I'm talking about how they lock content based on if you cleared previous content. Which older stuff such as T5, Levi Ex, or Ramuh Ex it's harder to get groups for because people are already on T13 or Shiva Ex. So moving forward in HW are they really planning to keep all that locked cus it's only going to make it even harder to get some of that older stuff done just so you can unlock the others. Then you have to settle for using the Duty Finder. Just as a side note if you think the story they've got going in FF14 is good you just don't know good story telling.

It's actually already been eased once; you used to have to clear Garuda/Titan/Ifrit in order to access Levi/Mog/Ramuh/Shiva. I can't see them locking the Heavensward primals behind these any more than they'd lock Alexander behind Coil (which they've already said that they aren't going to do). In any case, it's not hard to get through the old content at all. It just requires effort that a lot of people seem loath to put in for whatever reason. EX primals are probably going to be easier to get through than the Coil content because all of the fights are still pertinent to an extent thanks to the ponies. Even so, I see learning and clear parties for T5 and T9 in PF pretty frequently, which are really the only turns you need to do in order to progress to FCoB. Occasionally I'll see one for T6/7/8 or even one for T1/2/4 offering basically 100 soldiery per clear for your warm body in the party. If you don't see a learning party for the content you want to clear, put up one of your own. Network. Get to know some people and ask if they can help you with it. If they don't know it already, watch a guide then help each other with it. The bottom line is that it's not going to clear itself. You're going to have to work at getting through it just like anyone else that's cleared it.

thirdly mmorpgs are about gearing and gameplay not about watching a CS everytime you do a dungeon or fight a boss.

If this was true at all then game companies wouldn't waste time and money designing the raids, making the cutscenes, or writing the lore. They'd just put a dungeon that consists of a couple of of plain gray corridors out there and tell you to have at it. The bosses could be generic gray cubes or something. It'd save a ton of time on development, that's for sure!

MMORPG's are about entertainment. If your product isn't entertaining, people aren't going to play it or subscribe to it.