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ZAM: Why the choice to have players complete all the old main scenario quest to start the expansion content?

Y: I think of Final Fantasy 14 heavens whereas the second season to a television program, where as a realm reborn was our first season. So when you watch a television program, you don’t watch it from the second season, you watch it from the first season so they know what’s going on. Heavens word that’s the second season. You have your first episode of that second series is heavens word breathe right now. We talk about the story, but story is important part of the Final Fantasy series and experiencing that story is something that we want the players to do and that’s why we decided this way.But I’m as you mentioned before, we understand that it takes a while to get to that 2.55 content and play through it, and that’s why we’ve lowered the hurdle with all those things we mentioned before. We want players to see it, but we’ve allowed players to watch that first season on fast-forward, binge watch it, and get the second season.

There are shows like CSI where people can start in the 7th season, and they’ve made it so that people can start in the 7th season and not be lost. But for us it’s still our second season and we want our players to follow the story. Maybe in the future when we release our 4th or 5th or 6th expansion we can have a shortcut so the players can get to that piece, but that’s way out there – for now we’re focusing on the second season.

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