Friends of mine, new to the game, becoming discouraged by STORY QUESTS

[Derio]

I wonder how the story will play out for that. Since 3.0 wont be required for 4.0. How will the story transition from 2.55 to 4.0?

[ohmRICE]

I wonder how the story will play out for that. Since 3.0 wont be required for 4.0. How will the story transition from 2.55 to 4.0?

In Mabinogi you could skip the first three Generations (chapters of the game's main story) and you'd get a brief summary of what occurred during each one, but at the cost of any titles/rewards/achievements you'd normally receive.

Edmont de Fortemps narrates Heavensward so they might very well just have you sit through one long cutscene as he tells you what happened and you pick up at the beginning of 4.0. But then that raises the issue of y'know, required levels, the 3 Heavensward jobs...(shrug)

[Derio]

Exactly, if 4.0 starts off at areas LVL 61. Any player who skips 3.0 will have to fate grind until they get closer to lvl 60. But I do think that would encourage people to buy HW, even if by then HW would be less than 20$

[Vaer]

I wonder how the story will play out for that. Since 3.0 wont be required for 4.0. How will the story transition from 2.55 to 4.0?

Could just be a new cast of characters that branch off from there and based on certain story progress their interactions with you could be different. I think they already have some of this with different dialogue depending on certain quests your character did or didn't do.

FFXI pretty much did this with some of their expansions. Most of them branch off to another area that isn't technically a continuation of the previous story line but are related in some way.

I mean even if you play like this and ignored 3.0 something tells me you wouldn't have some of the roulettes unlocked anyways and because of how content unlocks work in this game it would eventually come back to bite you in the butt when you can't access something because you didn't do any Heavensward content.

[MomomiMomi]

I wonder how the story will play out for that. Since 3.0 wont be required for 4.0. How will the story transition from 2.55 to 4.0?

I doubt it will. It'll probably be a branching story that starts after 2.0, not 2.55.