Option to unlock content without mandatory MSQ

[Kenky]

Okay. Then, in your almighty wisdom tell me this.

If it moves from required content to Optional content, then why would SE put time and effort into maintaining it? You're asking for it to be optional and with that territory, comes the obvious issue of it just being neglected. There's no real counter to that, especially when other "optional content" in FFXIV has been left alone for quite a fair amount of time. Said time varying wildly depending on which optional content you're thinking of.

And I've still yet to actually get a response from either of you about why you continue to play, when the main appeal of the game (to many, especially with the games design featuring this, mind!) is the story.

And the "rounding out" part was more aimed at Sauc than you, Skivvy. However the "stupid mindset" you state is rather odd, if not laughable at best. What do you personally expect from a Final Fantasy game, exactly. If not its main selling point?

It wouldn't change, not sure how many times I have to repeat it. You like the msq? Cool keep reading everything, I don't so I avoid it and everybody wins. There's no reason to believe the quality of it would drop down, there's already tons of ways to level your secondary classes ALREADY in game that exist only for that purpose. Roulettes potd/hoh fates sidequests exist almost solely for that purpose the only difference is now you would be able to do those on your starter class as well.

See, here's where you fall into a snag. Yes, you can level up secondary classes doing sidequests, hoh, etc. That's the intent. But you need to unlock said content first and i've yet to find a game that doesn't have some form of progression-gating to ensure players go through a general learning curve. Not to mention you already can do all of these on your starting classes. Infact, you can unlock POTD at 20 and do POTD until you're blue in the face, but you still have to go through that learning curve, regardless of your level.

Unless you pay, that is. Which is its own can of worms I'd particularly like to not go back to.