Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
But this isn't changing it's core, it isn't changing anything about the game. It's offering an ARR skip for free, once the game gets too big and there's too much story to slog through.

ARR is the worst part of the game. The quests are too long winded and vacuous, and there's far too many pointless ones, and you'd get to avoid the nonsense that is the Praetorium, if playing the story firsthand doesn't concern you.
In that case you can pay to skip. I never found the story terrible, and I've done it a few times. Endgame is not everything, and is a pretty small part of this games overall content. Especially now, with the 3rd expansion coming out, there is a lot less endgame than there is content leading up to it.