Famitsu interview with Yoshida after NA's FanFest

[ErryK]

Do you trully believe people play FFXIV for the quality of its endgame ? Every metrics show the turnover on FFXIV is very high because of poor player retention.

People certainly don't play XIV because of the leveling sequence, specifically the leveling sequence. Endgame is the reason why EXP boost potions are being considered, people are complaining about the 200+ quest MSQ and not wanting to do it to get to play with friends. If they won't get their money's worth out of the MSQ, they will get it out of the potion, or rather, as much as they can possibly get out of it.

Also, there is no way to let people do 4.0 MSQ without having done 3.0 MSQ. 4.0 ties in directly to 3.5 MSQ quests, which tie in to 3.4 MSQ quests, etc. There is no way without massively retconning the 2.0-3.5 MSQ, or introducing a premium to skip said MSQ.