Main Scenario Restriction Bloodstorm - Very Very Bad idea.

[Reynhart]

I was unaware the only new zone in Zilart was Sky. How about that.

The whole idea of the skip is for new players to play with us...and we veteran players play at endgame 90% of time. So yes gating the endgame is what's most important for grouping withnew players. ZM endgame were Sky and Dynamis...both gated behind City Ranks.

People playing this game don't play for the same reasons (I have DoL friends who were annoyed they had to do the MSQ just to enter new zones so they could Gather items to Craft).

If you don't follow the basic backbone of the game, it's you who need to play another game, not the game to break its identity for you. If they decided to gate part Stormblood behind the MSQ completion (Even if not all of it), that's the identity of FFXIV. It's like saying "Make this game F2P, I don't want to play a subscription based game".

I am aware. Are you aware that my argument you're specifically quoting is about 'accessibility' (exploring zones that recommends you not to be low level in) and not endgame?

See my first point. A new player has no reason to skip content (Since, again, everyhting is new for them) for another reason that play with veterans (Which is a non issue thanks to leveling multiple jobs on one character and the level sync in duties), veterans who play mostly at endgame.

As for what they paid for, the current complete version (ARR+HW) cost less than what players had to pay for ARR at release...

That's not true, if we had the ability to remove ARR from the requirement but start all classes at 30 like jobs in HW all content would be locked for 31 levels.

Yes...and how long would it take to level your fresh new job to 50 to access HW ? Two days ? Three ?