Quote Originally Posted by Voltyblast View Post
B-b-b-b-b-b-but IT'S A FINAL FANTASY, IT HAS TO HAVE A STORY, IT'S SUPER DUPER MEGA IMPORTANT OR ELSE IT'S NOT A FINAL FANTASY - ah you get the gist of it.

In all honesty, I totally agree with you: my sister was one of those who quit the game knowing the amounts of quests she had to do and has never touched the game ever since. We are both huge lovers of stories in jrpgs but the filler was so much she just couldn't handle it - while I managed because I was way ahead of her.

This is basically HW all over again because of that issue and I remember many people I knew were bashed because of their "absurd" idea of skipping the main story and reach the expansion right away, so if anything be sure that nothing will change because...well final fantasy fans are that fixated over defending flaws.

On the other hand, I was having the same idea: give new players a free skip potion to reach 5.0 right away and then let them enjoy the past as they wish - or don't and save it for later. I think it would be a great idea and would definitely pump some fresh numbers into the game.

I mean the worst MMORPG of all time World of Warcraft does give a free boost if you preorder and it's not like you NEED it but hey, that game is the worst MMORPG of all time so if the worst MMORPG of all time can do it, why not the best MMORPG of all time can?

PS: yes that sentence is purposely over the top, I forgot that on the internet I have to explain every lame joke I make.
I said no free stuff for newbies in 5.0 but i never played a SE game before this one and life and strange... so im not a fan for sure.
calling WoW the worst MMORPG is just dumb, without WoW Most MMORPGS wouldnt exist or the player count would be very low, they also do plenty of stuff better than XIV and the other way around too, So it sounds like you are the fanboy here not us.

If people would get a free skip potion they will just drag other people down like Pepsi said above.
Your argument is pretty weak, saying only fans defend the fact that people should either pay for a boost or just do the quests like some of us had to, i know plenty of people who regreted boosting and quit the game becaus they had no idea what theire doing.
Also why are people who try to get free jump potions for newbies also never people who cleared a Ultimate or atleast Savage fight? you are biased seriously. You only think of benefits for Casual players, but you fail to realize that free boosts will hurt Savage & EX Content because people with 0 experience will join up either Duty finder groups or PF groups and drag us down. im not a elitist but start thinking about the entire community instead of just one part of it.

Dont get me wrong, Give people a ARR skip because the content there is just Boring, HW is great but i wouldnt mind if people get a boost there too, that way people would learn the game to some degree and wont be deadweight, but im against getting more than that.