Refunded for Heavensward.

[DragonSlayer45]

Heavensward is an expansion. It expands on where ARR left off. It's been common knowledge since 2.55, and probably prior, that you would need to complete ARR's main story to access Heavensward content. I am sorry that you refunded HW, OP. Now you are missing out on a great amount of content that will only get bigger over time.

I don't know why people complain so much about this requirement. Had they not imposed this restriction, we would probably have more story complaint threads asking what the hell is going on.

[DreadRabbit]

I will never get the "content is irrelevant" mentality. If you haven't cleared it, then the content is relevant to you. And FF14 is one of the few MMOs out there that actually makes an active effort to make old content to continue to be "important" to do. They might not do the best job, but at least the devs actually care about everything else that isn't end game like other games.

Sorry it wasn't what you wanted, OP. But people really need to research what they buy before they throw their money at it. I am glad you got your refund (or I'm assuming that's what this post is about?) though. No need to stick around if you didn't enjoy it.

[Mikedizzy]

I can definitely sympathize with the OP. I'm not really looking forward to doing the level 50 MSQ stuff at all, once my new character reaches that level. It was hideously boring the first time around, and I'm sure it will be even more mindnumbing the second.
-_-; I just want to get to the new zones and unlock Astrologian. *sigh*

The whole point to this game is the story...the story makes the game and some of these people want to "skip" it. You have got to be kidding me. If you buy that game but don't finish it you are missing out on a ton of the game, why would you want to do that??

[Fendred]

It wouldn't be so bad if the stuff at level 50 was somehow still relevant in a way that got people together in the same place and communicating with one another. The one consistent complaint I've always had about FFXIV:ARR is that it is built around content that doesn't require social interaction and the content that does was slapped in as an after thought. Even in dungeons there should be choices that require people to ask one another what they want to do next. After all, if the game is designed to make social interaction unnecessary why bother making an MMORPG at all? Multiplayer minus the social factor is a lobby game.

[Phydeaux]

Square just got back to me about my refund for Heavensward. I bought the expansion upon hitting level 50 expecting to move on to Ishgard, etc etc. Turns out I still had to play through all the irrelevant lv50 content, but in the meantime of doing that I grew bored of the game and had no interest in Heavensward, hence getting a refund. Kinda felt scammed.

Such a shame. I was pretty excited when I hit lv50, but doing endless fetch quests for virtually no reward (4k exp at lv50) for over a month really killed the game for me.

Thank you for the laughs!

Let's see... You are not good with that "reading" thing - as made obvious before in this thread already with people pointing the plethora of news on the subject and patch notes warnings, states the story and lore they worked on is irrelevant (on a story-driven MMO), and even though each patch added like a couple of hours of main quests each (including reading them, not just running as fast as possible through them), after "a month" you did not finish... And thinks the game should magically just work the way you "think".

The game's story is relevant. You are irrelevant. Well, hilarious - but still irrelevant.

[Intaki]

It's possible to burn through 2.1-2.55 in a weekend if you are a tank or healer, or if you have a tank/healer helping you with the queues. We did it for my best friend just before HW dropped.

Actually you just need a single friend at level 60 to help you plow through the unsynced hard modes and dungeons.

[Elim]

If you don't like the story you can press esc to skip a scene. You also played before the expansion came out... and you clearly know about the forums which was filled with information on heavensward... so I'm not sure how you didn't know that you have to complete the old story to play the new story.

[Hyrist]

Unfortunately in our "customer is always right" culture, people really do think they are entitled to refunds or things exactly as they demand them.... even when they're not right at all.

I have a little sympathy, but having worked in customer service and tech support for a good chunk of my adult life, I don't have a lot. Sometimes the customer made a mistake. Sometimes the customer actually is wrong.

Going to mirror this sentiment. Again I feel as if people treat individuals in customer service often as second-class citizens often. There's a level of common decency I'd like to have show in through my door when people are coming in to be helped. But this dog-eat-dog business world has us pandering this plastic plastered face in fear of a bad survey that has way too much impact on our paychecks then what I think it necessary. There are just some people I feel need to just be turned to the door and realize who they're speaking to are human beings that deserve to be treated well in turn.

In this case, I wonder why people play games they're just going to skip through to begin with. There is literally no rush in this game, no purpose to push hard as the steps you make are either going to get easier while you catch up, and there will always be progress 'upward' to be had.

Take your time, enjoy the game. If you get too sucked into the idea of progression you stop having fun and burn out so much quicker.

[Terribad]

What dungeon was that?

Steps of faith for me, I forgot what dungeon he was waiting on. I was doing doing it after reset, not that I planned that because of the roulettes it just happened to be at that time. Still took me an hour for steps of faith, three times (due to people not following directions, ugh).

And what do you base that assertion on? The Expansion is NOT standalone, it's a STORY expansion, so of course you need to finish the previous story. This is not WoW.

Why does everyone bring up WoW as if WoW is the only MMO in history? I'm basing this off of every MMO I've played and I've played almost everyone out NA, RU,JP and KR servers/games included. Every MMO has a story, every single one, so using "story" isn't a good excuse. Not everyone cares about story and it shouldn't be forced. Because guess what? Those don't care don't read it and in the end still have zero clue what's going on.

[Kaedan94]

LMAO

OP buys a game that is heavily story-based.... complains about having to play through the story.