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

[Zabuza]

And stop saying the story will be ruined. Cutting out "unimportant" filler quest that have nothing to do with story would definitely help. And stop telling the new players that they shouldn't be able to access it cause they didn't put in the work. Thats like you going to buy, lets say, mass effect 3 and you never played the first two, and not being able to play the game until you complete ME 1 and 2. Its stupid. And my final question, if x player decided to skip story to get to Heavensward...how does that affect YOUR game? Answer...it doesn't. You can experience the same story.

No, your analogy is incorrect. Heavensward is an expansion - a DLC, albeit a rather large one. It is not a completely new game. The Heavensward story builds off of the ARR story. A better analogy would be asking to start at the beginning of disc 2 in FF7 without having played the first disc. You'd have no idea wtf is going on and you shouldn't be allowed to skip a disc. Certainly they need to get rid of filler quests, but allowing you to skip the entire MSQ... just no.

You mean the same people that are frantically mashing the scape key to skip cut scenes and madly clicking through dialog?

So I'm curious, do you also believe it's unfair that the very best gear is gated behind difficult boss fights? Since some people want the best gear without having to go through that struggle, why don't we just give it to them without forcing them to do anything difficult? After all, this is cutting off their choice, right? Do you also believes the levels to be useless? Perhaps we should all start at level 60 as well? Sounds like you want to turn this into a certain other MMO, which it is not.

It's sad to see how brainwashed people have become from a certain other MMO. It has taught them to believe gating things behind raids or meaningless rep grinds or token grinds is ok, but apparently gating things behind a meaningful story that actually makes sense IN THE GAME WORLD is not ok. Gotta love it. If any MMO deviates from this formula, they are wrong and how dare they force people to do this content. And you all wonder why there have been no MMOs with any innovation since the juggernaut of MMOs came out 10 years ago? You guys are why. You clamor for it but you can't even take the slightest change to the formula without whining.