Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
For new players, CT is now required at its intended point in the story in post-ARR.
And the requirement couldn't have been placed more poorly in my opinion.
At the point where new players notice they need to complete the full CT series, they are a few quests away from Ishgard. Although they condensed the post-ARR story quite a bit, the players clicked their way through over 70 quests only to be stopped last second by a mandatory three part alliance raid.
I would bet my last shirt that most of them will happily skip through all the cut scenes because they just want to start with the HW story. The CT series doesn't start with anything that makes it seem particulary important in the grand scheme of things either. By the time they reach ShB, most will have already forgotten what happened, if they even watched the cutscenes and paid attention to what this is about.