Possible level/story jumps....really?

[Fynlar]

Locking *everything* (primarily the new jobs, but also the new areas) behind 2.x story content was honestly pretty dumb, in both a practicality and business sense. It doesn't encourage anyone who isn't yet through with it all to actually get the expansion.

Expansions could have been handled a little more like how they were in FFXI, where there were actually reasons to get an expansion even if you were not up to date on story content. Even Chains of Promathia, probably the most restrictive of FFXI's expansions in terms of story gating the content, still had some areas you could at least reach without any mission progress.

It sounds like they learned this lesson and will probably be trying to do something more like this in the future, and I only approve of it because it is really the smart thing to do.

As for the automatic levels/story skip though, that's a different kettle of fish. I don't really have that much of an opinion on it. If people wanna pay money to have the game played for them, I guess that's their prerogative. At that point I'd rather just watch a Let's Play on youtube or something... but as we all know, people fork out RL cash for silly things already, so this isn't anything new.