Stop The MSQ Gate Cash Grab

[Poporito_Popoto]

It's now clear that the MSQ gating of expansions has nothing to do with 'story integrity' and everything to do with pushing 'boosts'.

There is absolutely no reason why someone couldn't CHOOSE to skip old and in good part obsolete content and dive straight into the latest expansion .. there are clearly many way to level a job to the required level .. so SE's locking of content is simply there to coerce new/returning players to pay cash to be able to get into the current content.

Stop it SE, just stop it.

You're not the boss of them.

Your reply shows why you don't see this as a problem, one that'll drive away a LOT of players who don't raid when they can't play the MSW without enduring 24-man raids as 5.3 will force them to do .. likely SE simply wants to see more MSW boosts to those of us who don't raid, hate raiding and will cease playing if there's no way round it.

This post from last year aged well.

[Lunalepsy]

It's now clear that the MSQ gating of expansions has nothing to do with 'story integrity' and everything to do with pushing 'boosts'.

There is absolutely no reason why someone couldn't CHOOSE to skip old and in good part obsolete content and dive straight into the latest expansion .. there are clearly many way to level a job to the required level .. so SE's locking of content is simply there to coerce new/returning players to pay cash to be able to get into the current content.

Stop it SE, just stop it.

They need to survive!

[Titor]

I would like to be able to skip specific expansions though. I have a few alts that I have boosted via the story skip, but when new expansions out it becomes either do the new story or buy another skip that's very expensive since it has it all. I've found it's better to just story skip a new character at that point because at least I get extra retainers and stuff.

[Asari5]

well... if your friends want to play with you... play with them. you can join them for any dungeon. and you can do trials and raids together on lvl 50.

[Pintsized]

The content isn't obsolete. People still do it every day in roulettes

Which were introduced to 'incentivise' players to re-do the group content new players are forced to do to progress and without whom newer players were finding it increasingly hard to find groups to do considering the lack of tanks and healers .. roulettes weren't always a 'thing' SE only added them when they saw the wasteland that 2.0's dungeons were becoming months into the game.

[Pintsized]

On top of that you only have to do the msq once. This isn't like most other mmos in which you must start a new character to experience new classes. You can be every class on one character in this game.

Have you played any other MMO?

In those games you CAN reply game's quests to benefit from the XP or grind dungeons to level a new class (bot of course there's little to no content gating if you don't want to reply the story quests, unlike in FF14) .. in FFXIV you don't get the option to re-play quests to level alternate jobs you HAVE to grind dungeons/FATEs/whatever .. and of course the alleged "New Game+" is a pitiful imitation of the idea in that you get no character progress unlike all other games I've played where "New Game+" is a progression system.

Seems SE realised some people WANT to re-play the MSQ but God Forbid those players could actually progress their jobs doing it.

[Kyrj]

I give this one a -5/10 it was such low quality that I fear the OP will never rebound from such idiocy. May Hydaelyn have mercy on his soul...

[RobynDaBank]

Pintsized, just like the effort put into thinking up the bait!

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Have you played any other MMO?

In those games you CAN reply game's quests to benefit from the XP or grind dungeons to level a new class (bot of course there's little to no content gating if you don't want to reply the story quests, unlike in FF14) .. in FFXIV you don't get the option to re-play quests to level alternate jobs you HAVE to grind dungeons/FATEs/whatever .. and of course the alleged "New Game+" is a pitiful imitation of the idea in that you get no character progress unlike all other games I've played where "New Game+" is a progression system.

Seems SE realised some people WANT to re-play the MSQ but God Forbid those players could actually progress their jobs doing it.

It's almost like those other games let you replay quests to level because... It's a new character....


Leveling in this game is so easy. You can get max level on everything from just daily roulettes in a few months.

[Darkobra]

You're not the boss of them.



This post from last year aged well.

Fact. Low quality bait and caught out.