Main Scenario Restriction Bloodstorm - Very Very Bad idea.

[Alleo]

I don't understand some people's mentality. The "I had to do the story so everyone should have to do the story" is incredibly short sighted. If a new player hops in the game but doesn't want to go through months of story just to play with their friends he might quit. That player then goes on to play something else. The player convinces his friends to come play with him. Now the game is losing players and the grind to replenish those players is deterring new blood.

Well isnt this the friends fault too? I mean if I want someone I know to play the game with me I should tell that person about the many story quests that will await them. And if the only way that they can have fun is by running end game dungeons for days end than as a good friend you will help them with the older stuff and make it faster.

Well it matters because the question remains if SE will even put that much money in the story again if they had to take money and time into their hands to change the ARR and HW story to make it fit for those. The HW story had way less "filler" in it and that might be nice if you have to catch up but as someone that enjoyed the story I felt that it was over way to fast in each 3.x patch.

I am just not sure if someone that plays through the story again because they want to level their alt is really a good way to judge if its to bad or not because that person already knows the story while its completely new for someone that never played it before and when I was part of a FC I had more than enough new people that were quite fast in reaching the HW story quests (only took them some weeks) and some of them got bored quite fast too with the end game and stopped playing..

It would be kinda interesting to know how many people truly stopped playing because of the story and how many stopped for other reasons or even stopped because they good bored after reaching end game content..its not like Savage is for everyone and if you are not into gathering and crafting I am not sure if there is much left to do in the game to keep you playing all the time.

@Nestama: I am not really sure how someone is more interested in becoming decent just because they jumped over the story? I mean I had some people that did not care about the story and skipped them (thus probably being the ones that might skip them completely if they have the chance) and I can say for a certain that a lot of them did not play their class very well or even had no idea to play their class. I know that this is only my experience and that can be quite different to ours but I just wanted to write that those exist too.