Forcing us to the entire story quest to unlock the new classes is just bad business

[Vicus]

Yes, because it's not like every RPG has something that is gated behind story...oh wait.

Gating raid content, new hard dungeons, hardmore this, hardmode that...yeah thats normal and done in every MMO. New classes on the other hand...welp this is the first mmoRPG (btw this is a MMORPG if you forgot) that has required you to beat "the game" before allowing you to try a new class. You know why? Because its a bad business model because it turns new players away from playing the game. Just like Free to Play MMO's that lock out classes to premium members...that never goes well for them either.

[RyuDragnier]

Gating raid content, new hard dungeons, hardmore this, hardmode that...yeah thats normal and done in every MMO. New classes on the other hand...welp this is the first mmoRPG (btw this is a MMORPG if you forgot) that has required you to beat "the game" before allowing you to try a new class. You know why? Because its a bad business model because it turns new players away from playing the game. Just like Free to Play MMO's that lock out classes to premium members...that never goes well for them either.

Except you didn't beat the game...you beat the equivalent of Disc 1. This is Disc 2, one must go through the first disc before gaining access to the new things.

[Gralna]

Gating raid content, new hard dungeons, hardmore this, hardmode that...yeah thats normal and done in every MMO. New classes on the other hand...welp this is the first mmoRPG (btw this is a MMORPG if you forgot) that has required you to beat "the game" before allowing you to try a new class. You know why? Because its a bad business model because it turns new players away from playing the game. Just like Free to Play MMO's that lock out classes to premium members...that never goes well for them either.

yea, because without the NEW jobs, what would a new player be able to choose? Maybe one of the 10 other Jobs that would be NEW to them? That's just insane!

[Vicus]

yea, because without the NEW jobs, what would a new player be able to choose? Maybe one of the 10 other Jobs that would be NEW to them? That's just insane!

People come back to the game due to the excitement of the expansion...not because of the content they already played or experienced over the last two years. MMOs are about living and exploring and playing with friends, not everyone wants to do that by beating all the content...and shouldnt be punished because of this. Bring home a new video game system to your home and then tell your son he can't play it because he didnt beat all his previous games on his older system yet...tell me how that works out.