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

[Duuude007]

What are these hypothetical lvl 1 players going to do in Ishgard when they get there? I mean, the way this game is, most everything is locked behind some kind of quest(this is something many of you supporting the silly OP are forgetting). If design of the game stays the same on this front, pretty much all the lvl 1 player will be able to do is sight-see until they inevitably run into the next quest-locked bit of content. I mean all quests have a lvl requirement currently and i doubt even the 'flavor' quests in 3.x are gonna be able to be flagged by any character under 50.

At this point, we don't have to deal with this. For which I am grateful.

That said, if SE decides to someday throw the gates open for content-free map exploration of any level 50 player (50 ilevels undergeared to survive in said areas), I would still expect that npcs within and beyond are unwilling to give players the time of day, let alone access to their technology (aka the jobs you must earn, personal airships, quests etc). As in, they don't want to do content to get in, fine, don't expect to get content inside, either.

But why would they. So much of the past five years has been quests and NPCS effectively giving players the finger to even suggest entry.

BRAINSTORM! Let's undermine our business model of providing effective RPG storytelling for thirteen sequels, and tell the players "forget all that junk, here's your keys to the city"!

Yeah, I don't see that happening.

In the end all these arguments are moot. Those whining aren't speaking for themselves (unless they have bots to catch up), the game mechanics are already established (buy or don't buy, your choice to accept the terms or not) and it is in reality entirely fair if you have to go from poin A to B to get access to C, just like the rest of us.

For someone to say that this is 'poor design' or 'not what the silent majority wants' or 'unfair' is incredibly naive, or coming from someone who would rather play in a sandbox.

To each his own, but if you don't like it, you know where the door is. Gating isn't and by all means shouldn't go away.