Gating the whole expansion

[Seryl199]

Think of it like dessert, you'll get your sweet fix (classes, skills, new areas), but you have to finish the meat and popotoes first. It'll be worth the effort.

Don't be so mean guys.

A good chunk of the population are just mmo players, not extreme die hard ff fans. Gating an entire expansion with jobs and such behind hours upon hours of useless dribble and fetch quests is a bit extreme. It's not common with MMOs.

And yet, MMO players ought be more familiar with bland fetch quests than FF players. You can burn through them pretty quickly, and combat is no sweat for anyone who's level 50 and has acquired a modicum of gear. The only players who ought to complain are newbies who have the entire MSQ before them, and even then, it hand holds them to level 50 anyways.

[Terribad]

And yet, MMO players ought be more familiar with bland fetch quests than FF players. You can burn through them pretty quickly, and combat is no sweat for anyone who's level 50 and has acquired a modicum of gear. The only players who ought to complain are newbies who have the entire MSQ before them, and even then, it hand holds them to level 50 anyways.

Being familiar with fetch quests doesn't really hold in this case. It's a new map, new classes and so on. Having to do hours of it before you can get to the new stuff isn't really smart imo. Me and my guild decided to return to give it a try. You know pop in for an xpac, see if it's worth staying now, etc. But since we left so long ago (Back when i90 was the highest) we can't. Luckily for us, unlike OP, we decided to read before we actually bought it.

to be fair SE went to great lengths to help new players- double exp, faster ques, more items, only one type of tome to collect.
also if this was a regualr mmo - it is still an expac that would require completion of 2.0 or would u rather them charge a fee to fast word people to level 50/ishgard

Hours of doing fetch quests, doubling exp doesn't help speed through the quests.
Majority of other MMOs do no require anything to be completed before accessing content with expansions. If they do it's usually a level requirement before you can enter a certain dungeon (which is understandable) or completing a handful of quests.

In the end, it is what it is. I just think it should've been handled way differently. Gating some stuff is completely understandable. Gating all of it is odd, but eh. *Shrugs*

[AzraelX]

I get it it suxs. I hate to do it on my alt whos only level 30 cuz i want to be MACH/AST so bad. yea I complained and yelled. But initially SE wasn't going to do ANYTHING to help you gear/speed through- only thing they said was-"better start playing now." So it me 2 months to get to 50. And only completed 2.55 after the huge nerf.

basically it sucks-but at least they did something. best thing to do is just do MSQ-skip all cut scenes. doubt they will change it if they haven't changed how to get rogue at level 10 to start at 1- to get a secondary class to level 15 just to get a job- don't think they will this. It is what is.....at least the game is awesome.