Please Allow 50's to Enter Ishgard w/o having completed MSQ

[Samcaesar]

And how can they know you are not an enemy, when you haven't done a single thing for them?

It's an issue of desperation (And the issue with having "You're the hero!" focused narrative if we're talking design. I mean, I got welcome into Ishgard through all my brave deeds, but how did all you other adventurers get here?!). Perhaps Aymeric and House Fortemps goes "Calling all DoH/DoL, House Fortemps is looking for eager craftsmen/gatherers to provide to the Dragonsong War in the name of Ishgard! But be warned, at the slightest sign of suspicious activities, we've got a ravine that welcomes heretics, suspected or otherwise, with sharp rocks with your name on it."

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It's the issue with a single protagonist story focused game being an MMO (You're the sole WoL doing all this! The rest of those nerds are just nameless adventurers). I mean shoot, technically I could save Ishgard from Vishap and just not play any more and I'm sure Aymeric would have still talked to the higher ups by that point.. But I still wouldn't be allowed into Ishgard because I haven't seen all the Cutscenes of the stuff at Ul'dah. And additionally, whenever the quests will eventually ask me to "Gather your fellow adventurers and prepare for some rough in tumble in Alexander/Raid/Scenario" where do those guys come in? They certainly didn't help House Fortemps in Coeurthas with the falsa Inquisitor. They didn't stop Lady Iceheart from wrecking the place as Shiva. They didn't stop Vishap, Ultima, or any of the other stuff, so... How did those fellow adventurers get there and why does Ishgard act like they exist?

Really, SE is having an issue with the progression of areas and meshing it with story. Think about Mor Dhona for example, it didn't always look like the way it did, yet if a level 20 PC goes there, Mor Dhona has received all the changes it did due to the events of the story. "But you didn't help the scions move there! Mor Dhona was still a dinky camp until you helped change it" It's a similar sort of boat. In 3.0, just add the quest "Ishgard in need!" giving the player a brief run down of the events that allowed Ishgard to get so desperate, then position it as a way to allow DoH/DoL in. House Fortemps still exists as an open

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Well that's the issue with this kind of story and MMOs. "We" have access? No you don't, the WoL has access and in my version of the game, I'm the WoL, the rest of you guys are nameless schmucks, I don't recall all those people rooting out the Inquisitor with me, heck it was only me and Alphinaud meeting with Aymeric or Haurchefant at the end of 2.55 too.. Only about 3 others stopped those Heretics in Snowcloak.. And Only about 7 others with Shiva and Vishap. What's SE going to do when they introduce the next 24 man raid and at a minimum only one person (The WoL) has access to Ishgard from the outside and at most either people do (The WoL and their nameless buddies)?

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And I'm sure they're not going to give work visas for hordes of adventurers that will be helping me with my dungeons, quests, scenarios, and raids. Additionally, you go through the 2.x series, get to Ishgard and plop your rear down and begin crafting, good on you, you sure are helping Ishgard by taking the front lines aren't you?

Why does the story make exception for those random adventurers and not for those random DoH/DoL?

Cristo there we go.. If anyone is wondering where future responses will be... Well 20 posts of day is incredibly small and I wouldn't mind someone asking SE to increase that with a new thread >_> Like.. to 50 posts at least.