Quote Originally Posted by zbtiqua View Post
Why not? Because the story will conveniently not require it? I want every expansion from here forward to require all new players to go through all this old story crap I am doing now. You know why they wont? Because people DON'T WANT TO DO THIS! They wouldn't sell as many copies of the next expansion if new players knew they had to go through this additional pointless gate, and that's why it wont be there. And, that is exactly the same problem that still exists here. So while you seem to think you have made a great point against what I am saying here, you may not realize that you have also demonstrated that the problem exists.
no. Because 2 things :

A) Yoshida acknowledged that forcing people to go through years of outdated content isn't going to attract new players

B) future developments of the story will most likely NOT revolve around the war of magi, thus not need HS's story

Quote Originally Posted by zbtiqua View Post
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Devs made a decision. Players as a whole agreed that while bothering for skippers, the lore reasons behind this choice were right and the story was short enough not to be a bother for true skippers (way shorter than the 1 => 50 levelling). There is no need to debate more as it's done now, and next extensions won't require HS's story completion.