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6. SE has indicated FFXIV caters to casual/social players. If all I wanted to do was hang out/glam in Kugane with my vet friends, is it acceptable to go through months of MSQ or purchase a skip potion, to do so?

7. A casual/social MMORPG which requires the purchase of the base game,expansions and MSQ skip potions just to access the newest content/areas is not an attractive choice when compared against similar games.

8. If the barriers to the newest content/area in an MMORPG are considered to be unnecessarily tedious, there's a possibility of losing newbie subs. SE then possibly has to increase revenue from existing players and perhaps will do so through non-sub based revenue streams.