As a new player, I really don't want jump potions.

[Shougun]

Point taken...but I still laughed. Sorry...

You are forbidden to laugh! ! It's fine though lol, maybe they thought they were being funny too. Casual text sucks to get across personal emotives.

Regardless of all that fun though, what do people suggest (that are against potions) SE does when we get to say 7.0 or 8.0? Also how plausible for that solution?

For example I think it could be great if they strip out all the nonsense in the MSQ and just let people power through it super easily, perhaps giving free teleports back. But that is a lot of work to make sure everything flows together.. do we think SE would do that? And even if you did that which would probably work great for 4.0 to maybe 6.0, even if you strip it down at a certain point it can't be boiled down anymore and you're still stacking stuff, I suppose that just questions how long the game will last lol.

I personally see potions as the easiest solution to the problem and I do believe it is a problem that may start small (say for example making people do ARR to get into HW, not that big of an issue) and will definitely continually grow until it is out of hand. Having to do 2.0 through 7.0 to do 8.0 would be a massive deterrent, to the point I'd call it an unacceptable deterrent and a financially unsound decision.

As for when the right moment to add the potion I'm unsure, but considering at least using ESA's average gamer online (6 1/2 hours a week) I'm concerned that players would have to a month upwards to get past content they weren't interested in to play content they were interested in (assuming they didn't join for ARR but joined for whatever is currently being put into the media and talked about by friends).

At least that's how I see it, potion is the easiest most likely to be implemented solution to a problem that will grow in scale - easy doesn't mean it's the best or without con, just means I think it will be most likely to be used.