Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
SE provides the "opportunity"? I do not think it's an "opportunity" to pay SE a decent portion of money just to skip past hundreds of hours of story, just to play the mmo aspect with friends. Them not providing other alternatives, other than a skip/boost, and with expansion after expansion making the trip to endgame longer and longer, is just one means of getting more money from players, in my opinion.
Skip books ARE an opportunity. They are, essentially, a time travel of sorts. Depending on your pace you would arguably spend more than 50$ just on a sub by the time you reach 5.0. Skip options save your time by taking money you would spend on a sub otherwise.

It would be simply weird to give people free ride to end game while taking money for a sub from those who decide to go through the story manually, playing the game the way it was intended to be played. You want to skip the game in order to save time? Pay for it then, since there's no other option. Either this or spend a week or two skipping through cutcsenes, which is also an option if you're that unwilling of both experiencing the story and buying skip books.