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

[Luvbunny]

...I'm only suggesting it because that's old content now and seems unnecessary. Yeesh. I actually enjoy fetch quests to an extant, it's just that new players are going to want to catch up with us which is understandable.

LOL, they will never be able to catch up, 2.0 main story is huge, 3.0 MSQ is double of that. So if these players hate pressing ESC skip CS buttons, they will get double the dose and just flat out quit. There is really not much about 3.0, you have a good 4-6 hours worth of "wall of text story main mission" at least, before you can even fly, then you gotta "attune" - cough cough, go find things on huge map and do more "slave works".

Old content is not "a big waste of my time" - they did a great job keeping the old dungeons 2.0-2.55 still usable (even if you only do it once a day via Duty Finder or farming tomes). I like that they keep everything relevant and make sure that new players can enjoy 2.0 contents as well as hopefully 3.0.

Again, FF14 is first and foremost FF games - which means a good deal of 50-60 hours main story (with some online grouping required to clear dungeons) before you are set free to do things as you see fit. As much as it borrows a huge deal from WoW, Rift and Guild Wars 2, at the end of the day, it is a FF flagship, so we are stuck with having to deal to slog through "wall of text skip CS" ring a ding dong.

I know that most of the comments here wish, can we just make 2.0 story optional, and let us just go to 3.0 with talking to one npc and be done with it, and gimme me flying ability ASAP (and just talking to one NPC) - stop asking me to attune and do bazillion quests. Let us just do dungeons, trials and raid ASAP - don't force us go through the "skipping cut scene" mini games that is 120 hours long (2.0+3.0). Sadly that is not FF14, you can try Destiny, I heard that game has 10% of garbage story and purely action, ASAP nonstop.