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

[LineageRazor]

So what you are saying is if they make the story line optional or streamline it you and the others who are against the idea are going to cancel their subs.

That's a good point: exactly what part of the subscriber base is being sacrificed in order to appeal to this theoretically non-existent other part of the subscriber base?

Let's assume that SE makes the storyline optional. People can skip it, or save it for later, or whatever, and delve into whatever content they choose, whenever they choose to.

Who, exactly, are we losing as a result of this? People who like the story, still have the story. People who like the story, but have other priorities, can save the story for later. People who don't care about the story at all, have the choice to bypass it. I'm not seeing a lot of unhappy people here.

As near as I can tell, the ONLY people who could possibly be unhappy about a change like this are people who endured what they see as a horrendous ordeal, and are enraged by jealousy at the thought of others catching up to them without having to endure the same ordeal. If they've endured the ordeal, it doesn't sound like these people are exactly what you'd call lore-hungry storyline fans. I'll take the story-haters who don't make a big deal over it over story-haters who are spitefully jealous any day.

[ThanMazus]

the ONLY people who could possibly be unhappy about a change like this are people who endured what they see as a horrendous ordeal, and are enraged by jealousy at the thought of others catching up to them without having to endure the same ordeal.

This is absolutely the case. If you check any of the dozen or so threads on this, several people come outright and say that since they had to do it, so should everybody else.

A question though, to all of the people who cite Lore as the main reason to keep this gating in place: Are you against the skip cutscene option for the MSQ? People get to fly right through the plot without having any understanding, and then they're caught up to you that much faster. Those filthy casuals don't even appreciate that ol' what's her face suddenly disappeared from the story because of something.