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

[Allyrion]

The Duty Roulette literally exists for this reason, though. So long as high level characters receive rewards, they will queue. The game is going to be top heavy if you keep people from making low characters and the gating of like, dungeons and having to do the intro baby quests doesn't really help with queues.

These things are attempts at confirming a bias, not examining the problem objectively.

You will also note that I said it is largely irrelevant, as if in HW you can level/gear through the MSQ, then it becomes the most efficient way to level and there's nothing wrong with the gate if it's open.

I think you've been objective, but I don't agree with you.
You speak like alts shouldn't have to unlock everything over again with the MSQ.
Part of making an alt is starting from scratch. That's just the nature of it.

You level all your classes again and you get the MSQ back, experiencing it first-hand.
I mean, if it wasn't really about that then they could simply duplicate your character with all classes leveled as high as you got them.
That would be a bit ridiculous though.

There are achievement sharing in other games, but those aren't this game.
The achievements aren't actually related to the locking in this game, like it is in some others.
It's not that simple to take that tech and adapt it to this game.
This game was set up to bypass those comfort systems in the first place, by allowing you to play all the classes into one character.
The whole system is designed differently with that in mind.

So they could do a lot of work to remake that tech for a game that tried to not to need it.
But then there are actually people who build alts to redo everything like a fresh character.
I know a few. I've done it myself. The experience of starting from fresh is part of that.
So I don't think it does justice to people who would play like that.

So I don't really see a problem.
If someone thinks having an alt is worth it, they'd go through the process.
If they don't, don't make an alt.

Making an alt in this game is meant to be a bigger deal because one character gets access and builds up (unlocks) a lot more than other games that have stuff like account-wide achievements.
I don't think that should be overlooked.