Quote Originally Posted by SamRF View Post
I'm pretty sure this option would open up the game to (quite a lot) of new players who are for example only interested in combat/crafting/instances/raids/art and don't want to experience forced visual novel.
Though, how relevant "Opening Up" the game to these people is, given of all the things you've listed there, the only ones that FFXIV does WELL is Art and the forced Visual Novel.

There are MMO's with much better combat than FFXIV.

There are MMO's with much better dungeons and raids than FFXIV (Heck, WoW's Raids are like the only good thing in the damn game)

There are MMO's with much better crafting than FFXIV.

The only thing that makes FFXIV stand out from other titles, is that it has an absolutely fantastic MSQ.

Now, are there people who don't care about the story and just skip through to go and Craft or Raid? Sure. But it's likely not a particularly large audience.

As for optional skipping of MSQ for alts? Well, MSQ is one of the better ways of actually leveling a class, even if it can take a while to get through.

I mean, your alternative, is spamming Duties ad infinitum. Which is already hard enough stomach on alt jobs (In my opinion). Which personally, leaves me questioning about MSQ being a factor against leveling alts...

Heck, if we could get exp from NG+, I'd be jumping with joy as it would allow for a not so tediously long leveling trip for my alt jobs...