A serious discussion about abridging the story quest 1-50 (discouraging new players)

[Luvbunny]

What other MMO expansion has ever locked out players who reached the level cap? This is just going to piss off returning players and give the game less exposure from websites who can't conduct a review in progress.

FFXI is one, and it used to be their main flagship online RPG. The first two expansion for FFXI locked out some areas from players - and Chains of Promathia main story is a nightmare to complete when it was first launched. All of our complaints about FF14 is pale in comparison when you have to deal with FFXI expansion and add ons. FF14 is a walk in the park in comparison, SE went out of their way to spoon feed you and put a comfort blanket on all of us.

FF is not your "totally mainstream Activision - EA - Bethesda" type of games. It caters to specific taste and demographic, and I am ok with that. I can understand trying to bring friends to enjoy the game though. They should treat the main mission as "a break" from the break neck pace of dungeon grinds. What they should do is, log in, complete all the duty roulette, take a break in between those doing 3-6 main missions each session. It will take awhile but its better than trying to do a marathon session of main story. Again, this game is not to be completed in 3 days...