Main Scenario Restriction Bloodstorm - Very Very Bad idea.

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MMOs are before everything a social experience, and filling the servers with obnoxious players will only send the game rock bottom.

My experience in WOW since early 2005 is that it's had a toxic 'community' for most of its life, getting worse post-BC, and yet it hit 10+M players at the start of WOD and Blizzard claim to have hit that number again with Legion. Yes, numbers halved over the life of WOD but at 5.5+M it was still bigger than FFXIV, whose claims of 6M+ players is hard to believe, frankly, given the server populations and other evidence.

As for this thread, I speak as someone who's spent the last 2 months slogging through the ARR MSQ simply in order to be able to even SEE Heavensward zones, it wasn't fun (I'd done up till 2.1 3 years ago) and frankly I'd not do it again if the next expac comes gated by Heavensward content.

And having literally just finished watching the end of ARR videos I'm left with the impression leveling anything else from 1 is impossible, the 'immersion' that content was destroyed by ARR's ending, but it would be too spolier-filled to go into here.

In FFXI only RoZ was gated by having to complete the base game and nothing was gated by RoZ (the final COP/ROZ 'raid' excepted), FFXIV should follow that model.