Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
I'm not suggesting anything of the sort. There's no branching timelines here, just multiple game expansions. The timeline always follows the expansions and patches in order. A given player might get the expansions in another order, just the way a person might read the latest book in a series or the watch the latest episode of a TV series, and later go back and read or watch the rest. It doesn't branch the timeline of the stories. The stories remain fixed in a set order. It just means you read/watched/played a story that came later in the timeline and then might read/watch/play a story that comes earlier in the timeline.

Personally, I prefer to start any series (TV, books, or whatever) at the beginning and follow it straight through in order. But many people don't.
With how they have designed the game that might be somewhat tricky to implement, particularly with areas that reflect things that have happened in the story. It would require an overhaul of a great many aspects of the design including how the game is unlocked. Their system might not be designed in such a way that you can hop back to earlier parts of the story once you have passed them. In addition, unless they have some type of auto level feature, it will still require players to get enough gear and experience to get to the endgame. Even if you skip the story your still grinding to 60 and getting gear to survive the new content.

Its an interesting idea and it would open the chance to allow people to replay parts of the story but I'm not sure how realistic an option to implement it is.