New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[MistakeNot]

But this highlights the issue that this thread was created to discuss. Not all new players are going to want to sit through hundred+ hours of story in order to be able to play with their friends.

But they don't have to do that. That is the beauty of synced dungeons - people can play with their friends even if their characters have vastly different levels.

[Reap00]

But they don't have to do that. That is the beauty of synced dungeons - people can play with their friends even if their characters have vastly different levels.

Your point makes 100% sense which is why the trolls in this thread will ignore it. This thread is one long troll. This is a FF game and story will always be the main focus. If they don't like that they have other options.

[Skivvy]

Your point makes 100% sense which is why the trolls in this thread will ignore it. This thread is one long troll. This is a FF game and story will always be the main focus. If they don't like that they have other options.

So what makes us trolls? Because we don't agree? This is an MMO with a FF title slapped on it. Story is only a small portion of what content is available in this game. XI is also a FF MMO, and yet they don't force 100% completion on you.

But they don't have to do that. That is the beauty of synced dungeons - people can play with their friends even if their characters have vastly different levels.

Friends can run dungeons and trials with them, but those only make up the tiniest fraction of the MSQ. I would say what you are describing is more just the general leveling up process. Dungeons/POTD are things you do to level, and friends can definitely come around to help you out there. Most of the MSQ is spent running around all over talking to various NPCs, with solo instances dotted here and there as well. It's not exactly something you drag your friends to.

[MistakeNot]

Friends can run dungeons and trials with them, but those only make up the tiniest fraction of the MSQ. I would say what you are describing is more just the general leveling up process. Dungeons/POTD are things you do to level, and friends can definitely come around to help you out there. Most of the MSQ is spent running around all over talking to various NPCs, with solo instances dotted here and there as well. It's not exactly something you drag your friends to.

Most of the game is made for solo-play, true. But that is true for all of the game - it doesn't stop being a mostly solo-game just because you happen to reach level cap, or reach some particular point in the MSQ.
The so-called endgame is mostly just boring filler stuff to keep people busy until the next patch.

[Physic]

But they don't have to do that. That is the beauty of synced dungeons - people can play with their friends even if their characters have vastly different levels.

you cant even do dungeons until you do story. You could be extremely overlevel from leveling roulette, fates, sidequests, potd, or be on a prefered server and you d still have to do 100s of quests to access a dungeon you have the level to do.

Also playing with friends tends to increase your level, creating even more quests to catch up to your own level.