Quote Originally Posted by jagermeister_redbull View Post
Wow didn't introduce a jump potion until 5 expansions in, SE are already introducing one. If it's to combat turning off new players this early it makes me think the game may not be doing so well in the first place to attract new players.
it hasn't anything to do with the quality of the game in this case, simply the progression path of story and gating of systems.
FFXIV is EXTREMELY story centric so every new feature or unlock is done via quests, usually the main one. The only way you unlock most dungeons is by doing the main story quests.
The problem here is that even if you power level to max level, you still have to go back and do every.single.quest in the main story, as well as class quests to unlock things.
Secondarily is the fact that you can play all classes on the same character; meaning once you exhaust quests, you're stuck with 1-2 very repetitive processes to level, that in some cases is worse than alt-ing in wow.