New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Anselmet]

Remove the MSQ slog and your stuck with the level and gearing slog. Gearing up in this game is only fast and easy if you got gil or crafting on your side other wise its months of running dungeons until your eyes bleed.

I'm a little confused by this statement. Atm due to running an overbloated msq players speed through levels especially if they are on a preferred world. Cutting it down would slow you down, but as is you're only running a dungeon once, maybe twice if you're unlucky and out leveling your gear quickly. A way to fix this when removing the msq bloat would be to add gear or merely make a point to have a quest that shows you where to buy from vendors in the city states. That gear is cheap and you don't need hq to do arr.

Do we have a source for this?

Going through the entire plot like that would be quite an intensive process.

Tokyo fanfest, I believe is where it was said. If it wasn't there then it was at Paris fanfest