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?