Allow MSQ Fast Track To Latest Expansion

[Belhi]

Here is the problem with an abridged version:

1) It would take a lot of resources:
It isn't just cutting out quests. It requires checking and altering dialog, modifying cutscenes, checking and adapting story flow to insure important information buried among the filler isn't lost and then all the QA that would be involved. That requires developers working on it. That means developers not working on endgame content. To do this they would have to cut back on the patch content we receive.

2) It would be a very short term fix:
The MSQ isn't stopping anytime soon. What happens in an expansion's time when SB has been added to the MSQ? What about the expansion afterward? There is a lot less filler to cut from HW so the actual gains you get will be limited.

Clearly its an issue but cutting back on the existing story won't really work. The other suggested solution, unlinking the story from progression doesn't sit well with me simply because I strongly suspect that such a change will almost certainly impact the story in a way I would find negative, if not simply to the story then to immersion. It would make far more sense to just let people skip forward in the story if they don't want to do it. Let the stories structure remain how it is. Just give people the option to skip forward.

[Zojha]

It would make far more sense to just let people skip forward in the story if they don't want to do it.

Especially if you can profit off it. In fact, if you're planning that, it makes sense to make the MSQ even more extensive at the cost of side-quests - which is exactly what SE is gonna do.

F: In Heavensward, there were a lot of instances where I had to sidetrack from the main quests to gain experience points because I was lacking levels. How will it be this time?

Y: This time, the ratio of sub quests will be lowered and main quests raised. We want to balance it so that you do the main quests, a little bit of side quests and the dungeons that will be available during the quests.

F: So you’re changing the numbers?

Y: The overall number won’t change. For example, if the overall number of quests were to be 500, previously there were 300 main quests and 200 sub quests. Just an example, but this time it would be 350 and 150. The idea behind it is that you gain levels by going through the story. It might have happened because it was the first expansion, but in Heavensward, the first dungeon gave too little experience points, so we had to make adjustments later. This time we have that as a reference, so this time you won’t need to stop with the main quests.

https://gamerescape.com/2016/11/15/f...-fan-festival/

SE is a system provider. First they create a demand, then they offer the solution extra :3