New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The entire point is this is not a single player game. It is a social game, Final Fantasy or no, and the MSQ causes friction between players at different points of that gigantic MSQ.

Furthermore, it's not uncommon for a single-player game that offers expansions to permit a player to start at the beginning of the expansion with an appropriately-geared character, though not optimal.

So yes, demanding a player sink 150+ hours into banal fedexing fetch quests to get to the current expansion is gatekeeping. Keeping the "us" of players that have played the game away from the filthy "them" that might want to just start.

See, you are just bitter at the game. Your very calling the entirety of the base game and 2 expansions "banal fedexing fetch quests" is ridiculous. Thats like saying getting to the final episode of Game of Thrones is sitting through "hours of meaningless, utter crap to get to the finale" They may as well just start releasing everything as one quest, one episode, one hour of content, so we can bypass all the "getting through the crap" to get to the end and see the resolution.


Its not keeping people who have played the game away from people who want to start, its allowing players to enjoy their time through the game and expansions. If not every player wants to go through the story, they can either skip all the cutscenes or get a skip potion. Cutting the game up into an incoherent mess by destroying the story is not the way to go.