Gating the whole expansion

[Madjames]

From where you're at... it'll take you only about 3h to finish the MSQ.

Just crank it out.

Not only that, you'll be getting exp toward lvl. 60.

The point here is that this is a big problem. How can someone be OK with paying for an expansion and being the required level only to find out that they have to run through tons of stupid Pre-expansion bullcrap quests in order to access the main content that they paid for? The answer to me is it is NOT ok and a total stupid move on SE's part. I paid for the expansion and am the required level. Yet I am STUCK doing pre-expansion bullcrap.

[karateorangutang]

The point here is that this is a big problem. How can someone be OK with paying for an expansion and being the required level only to find out that they have to run through tons of stupid Pre-expansion bullcrap quests in order to access the main content that they paid for? The answer to me is it is NOT ok and a total stupid move on SE's part. I paid for the expansion and am the required level. Yet I am STUCK doing pre-expansion bullcrap.

This has been news for a very long time. Now i don't blame you for not knowing it, but it's hardly SE's fault when they have been absolutely forthwith about the new areas being behind the 2.5 story.

Additionally... you payed the same price as you would have anyway. Essentially you are losing nothing by not being able to access the content immediately. Its there and updated for whenever you decide to finish the 2.5 storyline quests.

[Alexia89]

The point here is that this is a big problem. How can someone be OK with paying for an expansion and being the required level only to find out that they have to run through tons of stupid Pre-expansion bullcrap quests in order to access the main content that they paid for? The answer to me is it is NOT ok and a total stupid move on SE's part. I paid for the expansion and am the required level. Yet I am STUCK doing pre-expansion bullcrap.

No offence, but the information has been around for ages that this was what is happening.
As for you jumping straight into expansion content? You are still wearing base artifact gear. If you wandered into the new zones in your current gear, the first mob you see would probably bend you over and end you.

You may be the required "level", but you are not the required item level nor experience level.

This whole raging about 'gating' the expac needs to come to an end. If you preordered the expansion and didn't get through the story prior to EA it really is nobodies problem but your own. The information was readily available, you made a poor decision, deal with it.

Honestly though, people like you are probably just never happy. If SqEnix HAD released the expansion without gating it behind finishing the story- you'd have a different thread entitled "I paid for this expansion I shouldn't be dying to level 50 rabbits SqEnix wth"

Gating an entire area AND new jobs behind the main story is not something that is a good thing nor is it something that I will accept.

Leave then? This is not WoW, this is not another MMO- saying "but THIS game let me do THIS" is just brain dead. That's like sitting there and whinging that you can't use your Yu-Gi-Oh trap card whilst playing the Pokemon TCG.

Shut up. This isn't soulless garbage like WoW where the "story" consists of boring text dumps in quests that you don't read. if you don't care about story, play a different game. People are so entitled it's disgusting. And besides, the lockout serves more reasons than just story ones. Forcing you to play through the main story also ensures that Heavensward players don't get stuck playing with clueless people who can't even play their job.

You. I like you.

[Starlord]

The point here is that this is a big problem. How can someone be OK with paying for an expansion and being the required level only to find out that they have to run through tons of stupid Pre-expansion bullcrap quests in order to access the main content that they paid for? The answer to me is it is NOT ok and a total stupid move on SE's part. I paid for the expansion and am the required level. Yet I am STUCK doing pre-expansion bullcrap.

It's not "bullcrap". It;s a great story you missing out. You should have known that going into a FF game.

[Whiteroom]

The point here is that this is a big problem. How can someone be OK with paying for an expansion and being the required level only to find out that they have to run through tons of stupid Pre-expansion bullcrap quests in order to access the main content that they paid for? The answer to me is it is NOT ok and a total stupid move on SE's part. I paid for the expansion and am the required level. Yet I am STUCK doing pre-expansion bullcrap.

If you had payed any attention at all, you would have known. I mean any. You would have had to intentionally ignored so much to miss this.

[Kaedan]

The point here is that this is a big problem. How can someone be OK with paying for an expansion and being the required level only to find out that they have to run through tons of stupid Pre-expansion bullcrap quests in order to access the main content that they paid for? The answer to me is it is NOT ok and a total stupid move on SE's part. I paid for the expansion and am the required level. Yet I am STUCK doing pre-expansion bullcrap.

It's actually perfectly ok in a story-based MMO. All content is unlocked through quests in FFXIV.

[BreathlessTao]

The point here is that this is a big problem. How can someone be OK with paying for an expansion and being the required level only to find out that they have to run through tons of stupid Pre-expansion bullcrap quests in order to access the main content that they paid for? The answer to me is it is NOT ok and a total stupid move on SE's part. I paid for the expansion and am the required level. Yet I am STUCK doing pre-expansion bullcrap.

If the main story of game of a series that has been story-focused ever since the very beginning is only "tons of stupid pre-expansions bullcrap quests" for you, you might just need another game to play.......

[Tadacho]

How can someone be OK with paying for an expansion and being the required level only to find out that they have to run through tons of stupid Pre-expansion bullcrap quests in order to access the main content that they paid for?

But all those "pre-expansion bullcrap quests" are also a bulk of the content from A Realm Reborn, which is a game you bought and subscribe to. How can somebody be OK with paying for a game and wanting to skip over all the content to play an expansion to a game they paid for?

The expansion is a continuation of the story, in a new setting. If you don't like the story perhaps you shouldn't be playing, or paying for, anything.

[Edellis]

The point here is that this is a big problem. How can someone be OK with paying for an expansion and being the required level only to find out that they have to run through tons of stupid Pre-expansion bullcrap quests in order to access the main content that they paid for? The answer to me is it is NOT ok and a total stupid move on SE's part. I paid for the expansion and am the required level. Yet I am STUCK doing pre-expansion bullcrap.

Why on earth are you even playing this game if you just want to skip everything?

Do you not know how to read? Did you do NO research on this before spending your money? They have stated multiple times that everything in the expansion is story gated, just like everything in 2.0 was story gated, just like I assume everything in 1.0 was story gated.

Why do people keep doing this?

* Players must progress through the main scenario quests introduced in patch 3.0 to access new areas.
* Players who log out in these new areas cannot log back in using a platform that has not registered Heavensward.

This is one of the first things they mention in the patch notes for heavensward. I don't get the whining from people who refuse to read or do any research on stuff, nor do i understand the logic behind buying a game like this one just to literally skip all the content.

This is what the trial period was for, the first thing you should have noticed is that the scenario quests are paramount for progression.

[Imoye]

The point here is that this is a big problem. How can someone be OK with paying for an expansion and being the required level only to find out that they have to run through tons of stupid Pre-expansion bullcrap quests in order to access the main content that they paid for? The answer to me is it is NOT ok and a total stupid move on SE's part. I paid for the expansion and am the required level. Yet I am STUCK doing pre-expansion bullcrap.

WoW sounds like the kind of game you'd like to play. Everything on a silverplatter.