Main Scenario Restriction Bloodstorm - Very Very Bad idea.

[Istaru]

Again, you have it backwards. It's because it's true that this thread and others like it exist. The game's main point is playing together with other people. Being bogged down too long from a backlog of quests only serves as a hindrance to players who want to pow around with their buddies in relevant content.

If I want to play with friends and have a good time then the content itself isn't what's relevant, it's the time I spend with my friends.

Example, Aquapolis. I spend a few hours getting FC people and friends together and do it for an afternoon or evening. I pass on every single drop, I don't need anything from there. I do it because they need it and it's fun to do as a group.

[Kosmos992k]

When you're a new player, everything is relevant content. Again...
When you're doing content for the first time, it is always relevant.

It's not as if the MSQ would ask you to grind this content over and over everyday, that would be stupid and boring...which is exactly what "doing your roulettes at max level every day to gain tomestones" is !

Yes, the key point here is that the entire MSQ is a run once quest line - and so everything you do in the quest-line is relevant. As you sai, it's all relevant the 1st time you run it, and to complete the MSQ, you do not need to re-run anything. You don't go back to Cape Westwind 50 times in a day for anything. The entire MSQ is progression, you are progressing through both the story and at the same time leveling one or more jobs/classes.

If I want to play with friends and have a good time then the content itself isn't what's relevant, it's the time I spend with my friends.

Example, Aquapolis. I spend a few hours getting FC people and friends together and do it for an afternoon or evening. I pass on every single drop, I don't need anything from there. I do it because they need it and it's fun to do as a group.

Exactly, this is why I get so frustrated when people talk about needing to skip the MSQ because new players don't want to run through it all alone, and so they won't do it. Why are they alone? Shouldn't someone in their FC have offered to help them, or other befriend them and work on it together...this being an MMORPG you'd hope that at least FC mates could be depended on - within the limits of their time obviously.

[Lewtskie]

When you're a new player, everything is relevant content. Again...
When you're doing content for the first time, it is always relevant.

When you're someone who's never played a MMO before, sure everything looks all shiny and exciting. People coming from other games to join friends however may find it all the same tick and tack. Story is a one-and-done deal yes and going through quests that actually carry the plot forward are good, but when slogging through the fluff, still with anticipation of joining friends, it can become bothersome. This is why if not a "jump" feature, then I agree the MSQ needs to be heavily trimmed.

Then dont make another twink. Twinks are to start over with the full storryline.
You dmt want to go to ilvl 270+ areas as ilvl 90er, or?

Not even sure who you are insulting here. Me? New players? Why are you calling new players twinks? Or telling me not to make a twink? I've never suggested making a new toon, so that came from nowhere. Either case, not really a justified thing to call anyone really, so maybe chill out a bit from that other thread you have.

[Mugiawara]

Even raids would possibly be harder tied to the story. But we don't and it doesn't.

No it wouldn't actually. Look at SoF, that was tied to the story and that got the nerf bat because people were crying tears how they couldn't progress
the game because it was too hard. They toned it down because people dunno how to read and work together after playing for 2 years and acted like
they didn't know what to do. All you literally had to do was communicate to win, couldn't do it....
Raids and such have a baby first step in version for people who want the story.
That's why Alex has two dungeons because people who wanted the 'badly written' [imo again] story that is Alex came to play.
If that's what you meant by the way, if not, sorry.

[Chalbee]

When you're a new player, everything is relevant content. Again...
When you're doing content for the first time, it is always relevant.

That's like saying if someone bought you a typewriter, it would be relevant technology since it's new to you. We know damn well that everyone is working on computers or tablets now, why are we making all the new players start out with a typewriter stick with a typewriter for so long?

[Chalbee]

Then dont make another twink. Twinks are to start over with the full storryline.
You dmt want to go to ilvl 270+ areas as ilvl 90er, or?

Are you saying we need to make more bara daddies?

[Lewtskie]

Exactly, this is why I get so frustrated when people talk about needing to skip the MSQ because new players don't want to run through it all alone, and so they won't do it. Why are they alone? Shouldn't someone in their FC have offered to help them, or other befriend them and work on it together...this being an MMORPG you'd hope that at least FC mates could be depended on - within the limits of their time obviously.

I used to be too dependent on people when I first started, mostly because I wanted to have someone run through shit with me. And there were a few who were always happy to, some willingly put time in to help or join in for company. But eventually did I realize that was putting a burden on others. They wouldn't object to any request out of kindness, but it was clear they had things they were doing and wanted to do themselves. So I don't ever want anyone I know to ever feel obligated to put aside their time. If they are all for it, all the better, but otherwise to each their own until interests coincide.

No it wouldn't actually.

If this was a game that was designed to press story above all else, than things would probably be different. Changes were made to SoF due to the "difficulty" because it was barring players. It was a gate in the story that proved to tall for some. I feel were it the case where story carried more weight than anything else than nothing would have been changed as the impact of the fight, and in turn the story, would be reduced; if story took such precedence then that would be counterproductive to the focus.

[Alleo]

Here's an idea that's probably novel to you: how about many don't have any desire to do 'end-game' with it's phat-lewt grinds and its often aggressive 'community'.

Well I dont really raid either ^^ and I was answering the OP that told us that people wanted to do endgame content after watching a stream..so I am asking how exactly are people going to have high enough ilvl if they jump over the story? She wrote that she wants people to be able to start at lvl60, so my question was how they are going to do lvl60 content if they dont have the ilvl for it? They will have to grind dungeons for it which will be much "fun"..please read my post right if you attack it that much. Endgame is one of the reasons that is discussed in this thread and I was just asking the questions about that. But I am sorry reading posts in their meant context might be novel to you.

@Reynhart: I am also not really sure why he attacked me (I am a female btw ) since I am against such a skipping and I even wrote that endgame is not that great either..People can play the game how they want it but there are always some major selling points to each game..like black desert which PVP, and I believe, even as not much of a long-time FF fan, that this game has is focus on the story. And I just find it counterproductive to want a change in one of its main features..I mean I dont really like dungeons and yet I knew that they are part of the game..I would never go around and hope that they would take any dungeons away from the story or even completely out of the game..

That's like saying if someone bought you a typewriter, it would be relevant technology since it's new to you. We know damn well that everyone is working on computers or tablets now, why are we making all the new players start out with a typewriter stick with a typewriter for so long?

You know he meant that the MSQ and everything surrounding it is new for a new player? And that is true. Its more like someone gets his first tablet and everything is completely new for him but those that already had the tablet for months does not find it that exiting anymore. We all can do every job on one character so no veteran player is forced to create alts. Its everyone own decision if they decide to do so. So Veteran players should not really have much problems with gating content behind a expansion..If those want friends to play with them they could go around and unsynch dungeons with them, transport them around to different places for quests and so on..lots of possibility to help.

Maybe they find out that they don't like the job they are playing or maybe its too complicated for them at that level. What will they do know? Buy another potion? Doing the MSQ or fate grinding your way to 60? I played MMOs before FF14 and yet every game is different and at the beginning I did not like the battle system since I am used to something more active. I can only imagine how lost, stressed out and more I would have been if my first touch with summoner was as a lvl60 with no idea about the job itself..

[Kurogaea]

who is really gonna play a game for years to just do a few dungeons a month. What is exactly wrong with letting players that want to play the game a certain way play with others that think like them

1: Playing 2 dungeons a month (mostly 3-4 months). We're already doing that if you've been playing for a while.
2: Nothing. There is absouluetly nothing wrong with that, but separating people because they decide to play at a certain point in the game is absurd. Its like if I had buddies who played Pokemon White and Black and moved over to Sun and Moon. Now we have newer players that never played White and Black but have Sun and Moon and now for some reason they can't play with their friends because they never played White and Black. See how stupid that sounds???

[Blood-Aki]

All in all this really seems like a cry from people who want to rush alts through the game, Because while i'm not a lore crazy player i still actually paied attention to the story during my very first playthrough, considering when i picked up this game i KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT you don't pick up an action game and then get mad cause there is "to much action". so people starting the game then getting angry cause they can't skip the MSQ seems a little odd.