Main Scenario Restriction Bloodstorm - Very Very Bad idea.

[AlexionSkylark]

It's not so black and white as "you either love the MSQ exactly as it is, or you hate FFXIV." Please be reasonable.

If the story is great, why you want new players to skip it entirely?
And about it being inflated - Every book has that couple of chapters we skew over, every movie has that moment you use to go pee or something - That's not to say we should scrap the whole thing and just throw players at the ending of the 2nd third of the story. A MAJOR part of the FFXIV experience is in living the story, spending time with the characters, cherishing them, caring about them - and that takes TIME - How do you expect to build that kind of relation with the characters if you skip 2 expansions worth of stories?

[Chalbee]

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Again, you're putting words in my mouth. Please quote where I said I would like new players to be able to skip the MSQ in its entirety. Because I'm pretty sure all I said is trim down the meaningless fetch quests. I didn't say remove characters or plot arcs. Do you realize the ARR MSQ is 284 quests long? Meaning brand new players have to complete 284 quests + job quests + whatever side quests they pick up before they can even set foot in Ishgard and think about taking up AST/DRK/MCH. That's excessive.

It is possible to appreciate something and at the same time offer some ideas about how it may improve.