As a new player that really likes this game ...

[Moonlite]

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Isn't the MSQ enough to stand on its own? Separate from dungeons and adding new CS to areas as you get to them. I am not saying MSQ should be removed. I just want the option to play in a more open style. Imagine if you couldn't get mogmail unless you have done every mogmail quest and then they add more to it. Or a game where we all admit maybe it has some plot holes and cliches add a few more in and let more people be happy.

I think you're being a little too judgy. It's not exactly a good thing- even for the sake of the plot- to lock your players out of content (Like a major city) for a really long time in an MMO, that shit just wouldn't fly and would only piss off more people than it would make the few like you who NEED the lockout happy.

Yet they did it with 3.0 and 4.0 content and the player base defends it. I do believe the whole issue is that SE chooses to lock players out of content because of MSQ. Also other MMO's have this thing called phasing. Maybe if SE wants us to put such blind devotion in the MSQ they should learn to use it.