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

[RichardButte]

you nor I have the actual data to back each other claim

So you're saying that every person who has posted here objecting to the length of the MSQ or finds it boring, or has outright been unable to get their friends to play this game are all...lying? Why are they lying? What motive to people have to come into this thread, lie, then leave?

what im against is completely making the story optional ie the preparation quests to rescue the Scions....why? cuse im playing this game because of that.....

Yes, YOU are.

YOU are not every person who ever will or would play FFXIV. Your gameplay experience is also completely, 100% unaffected by whether or not people do the story quest.

It's funny how everyone (only now, mind you) claims that the 2.1-2.55 MSQ is boring and dull and a drag and etc, but these very same people slogged through it, talked about it with their friends / twitch channel, and laughed about the awkwardness all on or around day 1 of the patch. We all did it. We all know its boring, but now, all of a sudden, with presented with the fact that the MSQ are gating something (because this isnt a first for this game) we call B.S and are outraged.

1. Many people did it because it was something to do or it gated content.

2. As the OP mentioned, the content you're talking about was released over the period of two years, hence why it was vastly more tolerable.

Try an experiment: drink one beer a night for 30 days and see how it effects you.

Then, drink 30 beers in ONE night and see how it goes.

When you're busy vomiting up your guts later that night, remember that's what people who try to do all of this in a row are feeling.