New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[van_arn]

Honestly, I can relate, as someone who has a sister who can't and won't return to the game because of the same reason. It's a shame because there are many ways to fix it - for example making each expansion separate so that you can take your time or, blasphemy, being able to make it optional - but let's be totally honest here: they won't many any changes. They have realized how big of a potential money grab is the story skip and level skip potion and the fanbase will always protect this practice by saying "Oh but it's a final fantasy, it has to have a story, you can't play the new expansion without doing the previous one", so I'm afraid nothing will change: if anything it'll get worse and worse.

I mean all I can say in response is "So you'd be fine if Witcher 3 was locked behind the first two games, because you have to play the first games in order to understand it".
You can replace the Witcher 3 game with anything even movies, but as you might've guessed you can play any sequel game in any order...sure you lose some story parts if you don't play a previous installment but the choice is yours.

PS: Oh and if someone might say that "these are expansions not sequels" then I guess people forgot that SWTOR allows you to skip expansions and directly go to the last ones.

It's nothing more than gatekeeping. These people think everyone should be required to suffer through the same 150+ hours of busywork teleporting, skipping cutscenes, and ignoring text because it builds character for some reason, or something equally asinine.

[Xeronia]

It's nothing more than gatekeeping. These people think everyone should be required to suffer through the same 150+ hours of busywork teleporting, skipping cutscenes, and ignoring text because it builds character for some reason, or something equally asinine.

I must have just imagined that story skip in the store on sale then...oh no I didn't it is still there if you wish to skip everything up to Stormblood. Also before someone brings up "WoW gives you a free one" this game is not WoW is it? Yes WoW gave you a free skip but should you not like that class you boosted guess what you are doing, shelling out tons of money to try a new one or slogging through the game on an alt.