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

[Windfall]

My personal feeling as a crafter and gather with all of them 50 (BTN was my first 50) is make the main story a requirement. Will it compleatly keep out bots no but it will help a lot. I much prefer having to finish the story to help rid my competition against bots. If you are truly a crafter gatherer then you should want to keep out those bots. Players only have to do the story once but they would have to for each character bot. Please SE don't give them an inch.

[Reynhart]

Name 1 FF game where you can go everywhere wih just leveling up and without doing the story.

Well, FFXI did a pretty good job at throwing the lore out of the window to allow this.
Not sure if it's a good example to follow

[Velhart]

THE good reason, or actually the best reason for a Final Fantasy game, is the lore.

It's already pretty stupid to unlock Ninja withtout having beaten Leviathan, when the MSQ clearly says that this fighting style is from a foreign country and Yugiri especially offers to teach us.
Like it's stupid that eveybody will be able to play as an Au Ra whereas their existence is clearly a plot point.

There is likely some lore like reason that gives it a pass, even if it may be a poor one. If I can give this game credit for anything, the lore team always has an explanation or reasoning for something even if on the surface it does not make sense.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

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It's funny you bring that up. Every time old content gets nerfed so new or struggling players can catch up, people reacted so violently that they wanted to throw new players under the bus because "they should learn and suffer like us veterans". Now there's a 180 going on here for 3.0 with people saying "WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE NEW PLAYERS!?"

[Cakekizy]

1: toons?

2: leveling them like everybody else is the flipping point. Keep it fair by keeping it gated. Nobody can get an unfair advantage on progressing the new jobs using the enhanced 3.0 MSQ XP bonuses, because one cannot roll said jobs on a new character.

EDIT:

3: TOONS?!



I know... in increasing frequency thanks to the many migrations from WOW to XIV.

It still really bugs me, lol.

We were calling them toons long before WoW.

[Tuathaa]

Name 1 FF game where you can go everywhere wih just leveling up and without doing the story

Can't. You know why? Like the majority of new players this is my first experience with the FF series. Which seems to be something the vast majority of naysayers in this thread seem to forget.

[DragonFlyy]

Wait, you actually think this will slow down botters? Thanks, I needed a good laugh.

Yes it will slow them down. Won't stop them at all, but it will slow them down since to get to the new materials to farm, they have to first farm the story.

[Chukkaque]

"Some of us play the game not for the story."

Good news you still can. Just not in Ishgard. "Battle class only"

[NorthernLadMSP]

They've already stated they're basically doubling the xp from most, if not all, of the quests from ARR. Yet, people are still whining. Sorry, but I'm with the group of people that is totally fine with the new main story and new jobs being gated behind the ARR story.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

5n1p

I always saw the Death Knight as an "achievement" for getting a level 55 character. I wonder why people can't see it like that here. And not only WoW does that, Tera, for example, does it as well with their Reaper Class, and it's class-locked even. But yeah, entitled people are entitled, some delusional customers that believe their money should give them access to everything with little/no-effort and/or the way they want.

They won't change it now and no, it's not a "lesson for the next expansion". As many people pointed it out before, for new players, everything will be new content. Their way from 1-50 will be one experience and their way from 50-60 will be another experience. And now, with dungeons being unlocked without level/gear sync, these guys can get "carried" by a level 50/60 friend. Extra points for being social in an MMO and being in a FC/LS.