Option to unlock content without mandatory MSQ

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They could become a true WoW competitor for example. There are right now a lot of dissatisfied WoW players who have nowhere to go because MMO market is very underwhelming right now when it comes to non niche (WoW like) MMOs. They could create some new Final Fantasy fans by welcoming those players, who will perhaps after having a good time and having experienced the combat and beautiful instances become interested to do the MSQ and see what's the backstory and context for everything. The average WoW player will not have the patience to go through the whole MSQ while being stuck with very slow combat (because combat only gets interesting and faster at higher levels).

They can do this, though. Buy the skip book for MSQ, buy the skip book for level, sink into the content, play MSQ with New Game+ mode (ARR coming soon, so they will get an opportunity to replay it from the very scratch).

Now that we're talking about WoW, there's probably a good reason why WoW offers free level boost with purchase of an expansion. They want to keep the newest content populated and make the game more appealing to players who get interested in the game after seeing an ad for their newest expansion for example. All that would lead to more profit in the long term because they decided to offer free level boost instead of charging players. They comply to the demand so they can get more expansion sales and thus make more profit.

It's all good, but there is also 1000 and 1 reason of why people are so unhappy with WoW and Blizzard. And there is a chance, that isn't even nearly zero, that there are people among veteran players who are unhappy with this free level boost system for a variety of reasons - and I personally knew some. Some of those reasons were brought up here already.

Also, we aren't in WoW. And if anything, can we stay FF14, please? If people come from WoW to FF14 to only say things like "In WoW it was better..." - they are honestly free to come back to WoW. Criticism and suggestions are a good thing. Making game A a clone of game B, while actually coming to A because you didn't like the way B was developing is not a good thing. Because mistakes and results will be the same.

Edit. To clarify: I have nothing against WoW. But I came to FF14 to play FF14, not WoW. Keep WoW at WoW, please.