New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Penthea]

i can do other things, possibly, but i cant play with them.

What do you mean you can't play with them? Most of the msq is just quests. The solo duties aren't even 10% of the msq quests. If you want to you can run around killing things with them. At this stage you're just searching for reasons to say the msq is a wall between you and your friends.

If you set aside two hours to play with friends, but the game only lets you do it for 40/120 minutes, thats a fail.

So then every trinity based mmo is a fail in your eyes, given that queuing for content will eat into your two-hour window which automatically renders the game a fail.

and 2 hours is 6 dungeons, or all your dailies, or a bunch of gold saucer, or progress in eureka, or 9 maps, or 8 potds. unless they are new, doing msq, then its substantially less time.

A lot of what you're listing here aren't even in daily lockouts. If you're annoyed that you can't fit a bunch of weekly and daily things, and help someone with the msq in a two hour window that's your own fault for giving yourself an unattainable goal. Not the game's. Two hours is a very small amount of time in any mmo.

And its not about me, when you invite a friend to a shared activity, they generally expect a shared activity. Imagine you invite your friend to go somewhere, then ditch them for 2/3rd the time.

But you can do most of the msq in a party. It's literally only the solo duties that can't be done in a party. If you think watching a cutscene or going off to do one solo duty every so often counts as ditching someone then you need to reevaluate what it means to be a reasonable person.

"I can't wait to level my mnk to 70 so I can unlock dancer and level dancer to 70!"

Actually you will only need to get to lvl 60 so buying a boost will be enough to unlock it. Zero effort.

"I can't wait to play 90% of this games story as a class I didn't want to play, so I can play the class I want to play!"

If you only like one class out of the huge choice you get from lvl 1 then that's just your taste not aligning with the game. There is quite a lot of choice from lvl 1. It's rare for someone to like only one class in the entire game.

"I love spending $60 on the game, $15 on a sub, $26 for a story skip, $26 for a level boost, so I can play dancer!"

You don't have to pay for the last two to play dancer. Stop spouting out this misinformation. You're making dancer sound like paid dlc in addition to buying ShB when all you need to do is get to lvl 60. You don't need to buy jump potions to unlock it.