Forcing players through MSQ content makes it un fun.

[ChameleonMS]

Not sure where you get this issue with self-esteem. Ori doesn't come across to me as a person who needs someone to falsely pat his back and tell him how good of a person ...

While I will agree with you that Ori does not come across as a lackey seeking his masters attention for gratification.

I will explain my observation.

... No one is actually forced. It is a Forced 'feeling'....

Not being able to stand up for one self and say, I am going to enjoy this story at my own pace, even if it means "falling behind" his friends, speaks to a lack of independence. Ori, succumbed to the peer pressure, hey we are doing end game now, you need to be here with us too, asap. At which point he blew through the MSQ to get there. Enough of that opinion discussion on player character independence.


The issue at hand, is Square's MSQ locking of content.

And square could have given me the best of both worlds. Letting me play the new content and play with my friends.

With that said. I simply did not enjoy being forced to play it. I have no issue being behind my friend's in level or content. I spent a year at level 48 in 2.0 while my friends were raiding. I enjoyed other aspects of the game at the time. And had no interest in the Raid or end game content at the time.

Now square has essentially punished me for taking my time with the story.

The MSQ was originally a progression of story and gear to complete the story. Entering content with the minimum gear requirements always presented some level of difficulty. At each major patch, SE has made it easier to gear catch up to the players ahead, while maintaining the same number of quests to get there. Since, gear advance is so fast now; several of the quests went from some difficulty to trivial time wasters due to over gearing.
Should SE then remove/streamline the quests to match the pace of the over gearing. I would say "No" because it would require a re-write of the story.
Should SE removing the locks behind MSQ and go with only LVL / iLVL locks. I would say "No" because then a story driven MMO would no longer be story driven and the MSQ would just be left in the dust by a significant number of new/returning players.

[Ori]

Not being able to stand up for one self and say, I am going to enjoy this story at my own pace, even if it means "falling behind" his friends, speaks to a lack of independence. Ori, succumbed to the peer pressure

Literally. I just wanted to do the MSQ later. I was not in the mood for story driven content. I was in the mood to level, gear up, try out alternate classes. and then go back to the story at my own pace.

I beat every single one of my friends to end game. Yes. Even though they had already beaten 2.55 months before me. Work got in the way for them. There was absolute zero peer pressure for me to complete anything.

I simply wanted to do certain content and I needed to slog through the MSQ to get to it. It is that simple.

However I do appreciate you explaining your reasoning for getting that impression of me. I just hope this clears it up.