Main Scenario Restriction Bloodstorm - Very Very Bad idea.

[AsahinaMyLove]

If my best friend would start to play again... (He was forced to quit due his PS3 stopped working(was old model lol)

3 years later: He is still at ARR quest lv32 story quest. He would had bought a PS4 already IF only HW there Dark Knight class(his favourite) would be playable at once!
Not by doing the whole ARR story... wich takes really long! So he decided to be an XB1 user and dont think about having a SonyConsole
>.<;

Im sure many people didnt bother with new expansion 'cause of the content lock. (people STILL hate Steps of Fate and take 30mins punish instead)
Please dont make the same misstake with 4.0!

[Anzaman]

people STILL hate Steps of Fate and take 30mins punish instead

It's so braindead content nowadays that it's almost impossible to fail.

[Daemius]

Jump potion is going to be a necessity at some point. Unless we want the game to wither and die because people don't want to commit 100+ hours to completing antiquated old xpac stories. I love the FF lore and MSQ but not everyone does. I want to see the game thrive; that means appealing to the broadest playerbase and not catering to the niche hardcore fandom that wants everyone to do x million things before they can catch up to their friends. I've had 6 RL friends join through recruit a friend. I've had 6 RL friends quit before reaching HW endgame. One of them would come back if they could get something like a jump potion so they could hang with me immediately.

Ethys made a good point in his jump potion video, my views pretty much align with his. It's either jump potion or they start reducing story content to cater to people that don't want to watch cutscenes. Why do that when you can just give them the option to skip. All you have to do is introduce a system similar to the one in WoW where you have to test for competency in hard mode dungeons before you can do them. Then you won't have to worry about scrubs slipping through the cracks with jump potions.

[SendohJin]

The problem is we can't have noobs holding us back in high level content. All that time spent before heavensward is useful for learning the things that just can't only be taught.

That's not an actual problem and you don't need that much time to learn the game.

They should have jump potions and using it should tag you with a New Adventurer status for X amount of time or until you complete a certain task.

[bswpayton]

Ive been playing the game about three months I have 4 characters all together for a few reasons. I have no problem with msq but I dont like that the areas are gated, or the jobs, Ive met people in game that literally all they want to do is craft, for them I dont think they should be cut off from mats they need if thats all they intend to do. So id say if they could figure out a way to let you reach areas by level instead of by msq that would be awesome for alot of people. If they cant do that maybe they could for those who just wana skip story just set up specific servers for people that would play with people just like them that just wanted to raid etc , and allow them to just play the content they want and that way it wouldnt effect other players if they sucked are didnt no as much about the game. Its a thought but if they had two or three servers where u could use a jump potion and get to the content you want I think that might work.

[Evumeimei]

I don't think it'd be a great idea to simply skip the base game and the entire first expansion of the game. Well, perhaps players should be able to skip Heavensward (via a clever story transition from 2.x), but they should then have to enter Ala Mhigo at whatever level they are when they finish ARR. Also, if they were able to skip, how would the story explain away all the Scions new looks/ anything that happened that wasn't exclusively restricted to Ishgard?

If a jump potion is ever introduced, then it should level you to 60 but not let you skip story content. So, sure, you'd jump to 60 but you'd still have content gated by main story quest (unless you have a character that has already completed it).

That's just my opinion, though.

[RyuSaarva]

curios question. HW will not be required for entry into storm blood. Does anyone know how SE will bridge the gap between level 50 ARR and level 60 (I presume) Stormblood for those who do not do HW?

yeah, they stay 50 and won't get any new skills if they don't wanna do heavensward.

[Celef]

Well they have till early summur to go through the 2 MQS so that lives quite a time to do so. Come one, it's a Final Fantasy game and people don't want to do the quest I don't get it, for the first time in forever (yes, now you'll be singing it too, don't thank me :3) we have a MMo with a REAL story and people don't want to enjoy it, I don't understand ^^"
Plus, it's really easy to pex from 1 to 50 nowaday and we can imagine they'll do the same with the extension for lvl from 50 to 60

[Daemius]

you should go through story!

people have all this time before xpac to go through story!

This is not a single player FF game. Some. People. Do. Not. Play. For. The. Story.

MMOs bring all types of players, not just fans of the franchise. To have a healthy MMO you have to cater somewhat to people outside the FF fandom.

[Renius]

I need new players in Free Company, they watch my Stream and they like raids, hi-end dungeons and all content what i do. But they play first 30 days and that just boring to make main scenario. I try to find why they do that even if we help them and force to play with us, and i start new characters and i can tell one - most low lvl quest are boring, locations are empty, no one do any fates, for dungeons i wait more than 40 min and i stuck on 42 lvl .

Seems like your FC is trying to just do end game stuff. Why do you not help your new players? It would not take that long to help them with dungeons rather than have them wait 40 minutes as you say. The mentality of the FC is a copy of the leader's mentality. Help them get to your level don't ask that the game get to the point that anyone can join at any time. We all paid our dues and so should new players.