Quote Originally Posted by Paladinleeds View Post
Here's the thing, if forced between paying for a skip or having to trudge through the storyline to access almost all the instanced content, most people will just go "Nope! Won't play this game." - Something else needs to be done, and I speak as someone who plays FFXIV for the story. If you want this game to thrive, you need to have a way to incentivise newbies while all the veterans steamroll ahead. Most new players couldn't give 2 hoots about the story and would rather it die in a fire. I don't think you and I will ever agree though.
So we need to butcher all of it for the sake of people who want to skip and don't want to pay real money to skip? Can't really have your cake and eat it too. The issue seems to be people wanting to skip it for free or demand SE change the whole system for their own benefit while screwing everyone else who does not mind how the system is now. Trimming the main story would be ideal but we know SE will not do it due to money and time restraints, the pay off though a skip feature! Take it or leave it.