Naoki Yoshida's Comment in Regard to Jump Potions/Boost Potions

[Rufalus]

snipped reply to me

One of the examples Yoshida presented is an existing player who is starting Stormblood and wants to invite a friend who is new to the game. Let's just say the friend is an mmo veteran who is neither interested in the FF XIV story nor do they need any slow low-level dungeons to get a hang of this kind of gameplay. The existing player is willing to help their friend catch up a little, but they really want to be playing the new Stormblood content instead of doing old/side stuff like Palace of the Dead. With the option to buy a skip, the friend can instantly be ready for Stormblood content and now both friends are able to be in the same position and have a first-time experience the new content together.

I think ultimately, it's impossible to streamline all of the patch 2.0 to 3.55 scenario quests and gating enough without significant development cost. It will always be a hindrance to players who are not interested in that content, and the length of the quest chain gets bigger every year, putting new players further and further behind the latest expansions. Imagine years down the line when a new person has to catch up thousands of quests through to patch 6.55 or something with no skips available. So we let people skip scenario if they desire. Also services the kind of people who bounce between different mmos just to do the raiding or pvp, who have no interest in story or leveling and would unsub this game if they were forced to do all that catch-up.