Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
Thank you for completely misunderstanding the situation and for your continued gatekeeping? It's not difficult to see why more recent additions to the game interest people. Classes like Reaper and Sage start at level 70, not level 1, gear with sufficient texture quality and non-comical design doesn't really start making it into the game consistently until about level 80, aside from a few exceptions from Heavensward. People also simply just would rather fight dragons than run errands for Minfilia, or want to experience a different plot that has nothing to do with the Hydaelyn or Zodiark era.

Who are you to tell these people they are in the wrong? Once more I will remind the story enthusiasts: you lose nothing from others having the option to begin playing wherever they see fit without having to buy a boost on top of the price of the game.
"gatekeeping", "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means".

It's not "gatekeeping" to expect people to play the story in a story based game.

It's not "gatekeeping" to fight to keep the game from being turned into the dog**** raiding based game most of them just left.

"Story enthusiast's", that term says a lot more than you think it does. I'll tell you a little secret, we aren't stupid, and we know the tricks the "moar raids" cabal has used for decades. Yes, that's what you are, you aren't fooling people. This start after the current story is just code for "start at endgame". Which means you're going to start demanding more and more "endgame" content at the expense of other content, all because you guys are the loudest on the forums and tend to shout everyone else down. Then of course with more "endgame" content comes the demands that all the cool rewards only come from raiding...because "you worked for it".

I've been playing MMOs and MUDs for over 20 years, history has repeated itself more times than you can imagine at this point.

So don't try to play it off as "everyone benefits" or "innocent suggestions that don't hurt anyone"

So again.

GO PLAY WOW.

The game where they did what you want. And we all see how it turned out.