New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Voltyblast]

News flash FF14,WoW,eq, rift all have the same option for reaching current content. 1. Level up the old fashion way 2. Buy some kind of boost or skip draw back they put you 10 levels below the cap of the previous expansion, EQ brings you with in about 20-30 levels of the current cap.

And all of them locks major gameplay features behind main story quests?