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

[Madjames]

Or like, as an example, a multiplayer FF VII, where you have to follow the story to unlock the world and can do the dungeon fights together with other players.

Again gating is fine.

Gating the expansion to level 50 or higher is fine. Requiring say level 20 to get the new jobs, is again is fine.

Gating the expansion to level 50 and the 20+ Hours EXTRA of time in irrelevant content before you can get any jobs, fly, or even go into the expansion is not. That forced issue here is a big problem and I have already seen a turnoff from friends and family because of this very reason which does nothing but hurt the stability of this game, hurts SE with a loss of funds, which in turn hurts development costs to make new content, which in turn hurts us.

I would rather allow new players to skip the MSQ entirely and give them that CHOICE in how they want to play the MMORPG then not get any players at all and have this game not grow to its full potential.

I would also like to be able to skip the MSQ on my alt so I can level it up and have fun and not have to worry about some story that is not relevant to my character as my character makes his own story and destiny in the game everyday wakes up to go out into the world.

I already had to downgrade my sub and my wife's sub due to this MSQ issue which in turn SE lost out on an extra $4 a month. Now imagine how many others have done the same thing. It is never good when players stop supporting the game entirely or partially.