New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Kalise]

For one, people play games for different reasons, and one of the main draws of an mmorpg is to do actual endgame content

Then they'll not particularly like FFXIV.

Since end-game content for it is not particularly great. Which is why many people get to max level, spam out raids until fully geared and then unsub until the next bit of MSQ gets released...

You may like doing that, but not everyone will, and having the option to skip this for players who want to play the mmo side of the mmorpg should be allowed, especially when the expansions keep stacking up. New game+ is nice , however.

The option is there. For a price.

If players really want to play the "MMO" side of things (Whatever that means in this context... I played with plenty of people doing the duties necessary for MSQ...) they can pay to skip all the stuff that makes FFXIV an actually good game and what gives it the edge over its competitors - Many of which do things better than it (ESO does far better open world content, BDO does far better combat, WoW does far better end-game Dungeon/Raid/PvP grinds).

FFXIV has its spot in having THE best story in an MMO. I'd even argue that it beats out Star Wars the Old Republic (Which is another story driven game... I hesitate to call it an MMO because 99.99% of the game and literally the entirety of the game that's worth a damn, is solo content. I.e. Doing your personal stories for each class and then the main story for each expansion. Dungeons and group content was/is trash in that game)

If people feel the need to skip that to get to the end-game grinds... Then they really do need to consider why they're playing this game as opposed to one of the other ones that caters to that gameplay better.

It's sort of like buying a book, then just reading the last chapter and saying "Well, I can read the rest of it later" but then you've only got the Epilogue left to actually read, which can be decent, but will always pale in comparison to you know, actually reading the story proper throughout the entire book.