Quote Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato View Post
It's fine for Square Enix to extend the release date by two weeks, but as multiple people have posted, people are forced due to the hectic raid cycle to skip cutscenes, which renders all that hard work futile. FFXIV has changed a lot in the past year, and people want to prep for endgame as soon as possible to be world first or to get higher numbers on FFLogs. None of us are in control of that, but it's just unfortunate to see the game change so much and people skipping what is likely to be the best story in all of FFXIV. That means less people we can discuss lore with and share those moments with.
People skipping the story is their own problem. The majority of players are not hardcore raiders and aren't going to rush to endgame so they can wait around for the raid patch, come on. This is a really strange argument to make out of the lot already posted here.

The importance some people place on "world first" or whatever (speaking as someone who has played mmos for decades at this point) will always be strange to me....