Quote Originally Posted by Fynlar View Post
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.
Hmmm have you forgotten that all new jobs was locked behind the expansions in FFXI. Majority of the areas were also locked behind the expansion too.