Quality of Life Improvements and MSQ Gating for New Players

[Krotoan]

Addressing, "This is a story-based game" arguement:

FFXI also punished you harshly for failing, locked bag expansion behind invisible rep grinds and gated you from getting to later cities with nail biting sneak runs past monsters who would aggro a low level from far away enough that it was almost impossible at beginner levels. My only experience with FFXI WAS early though, so these may have been mitigated later, but there were many time gates in FFXI, just not that one. FFXI did have an incredible story it was based around even if you didn't do it though, I'll admit you didn't HAVE to but you lost out on a lot if you chose not to.