Quote Originally Posted by TwistedTea View Post
I fail to see how skip potions are a service. We buy the game, the expansions and pay a subscription.
"I bought Witcher III and it's expansions, I should be able to play Blood and Wine with my character decked out already on my first running of the game!"

See the problem there? Expansion is called that because it expands on what is already there. It is not stand-alone content. It is story for when you complete the stories BEFORE it. Most expansions offer something small extra for earlier content, but the bulk of it is ALWAYS after most or all of previous content is finished. That's the whole point.

I agree that there is a whole lot of trash quests in ARR. I know that. I begun playing sometime during Heavensward so I did all those quests in that horrid stretch at the end over two days myself. But however much we want to dismiss it, it is part of the game content. You buy the game with its expansions. Not the expansions. If you want to skip majority of the game, then pay for that service. You should be glad you have that option. Outside of MMO's with item mall such option just doesn't exist because it completely invalidates the entire point of the game existing. In MMO's it's only "valid" because the actual content is what you do with other people.

Current skip potions are a lazy and profitable way for SE who chose to gate nearly all of the content behind the MSQ.

Some people will point out that XIV is an FF game before it's an MMORPG but at some point in order to compete with other MMORPGs for subs, the MSQ is a gate to end-game raiding/crafting/chilling out in new areas etc.[/QUOTE]