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

[RichardButte]

What I start to find annoying is how's everyone's defense for the story is that "it's Final Fantasy" and that is has to have a story in order to be good... and I would agree on that if this game wasn't once shut down because of 1.0 failure due to its faulty gameplay and overall bad game design.

Exactly.

I've never been a FF fan. I think moogles and chocobos and whatnot are neat and all, but it's FFXIV's great mechanics that ultimately win me over.

The armory system kicks so much ass, and the boss in HW are the best yet. I also love how you can join dungeons and scale down your level so that you can play with your friends without nerfing their exp.

There are a lot of very good design decisions in XIV. Gating all of the actual content behind hours of fetch quests wasn't one of them.

Show me those number because honestly I only see a hand full at most that not a astonishing number that's pure hyperbole.

I'm astonished at the number of posts because I had no idea that this many other people were experiencing the same issue.

If you want to argue that XIV will lose subs if the MSQ is made optional, I'm gonna need to see some proof or you're just arguing based on hyperbole.