Making the case for a new starting point in 7.0

[Alleo]

Most of the story-specific issues people list I feel are non-issue...

Why would you- even if you wanted to make an alternate entry point, make it so you have to double or triple up the story? Like.. y tho? lol. If I was making it, I would go out of my way to avoid such a horrible situation XD.

So bascially somehow the character still has done everything up to that point? Then the buyable story skips are still imo the easiest solutions. After all people that jump to the end do skip months of subscriptions, so for me its only fair that bascially the price for that is the money for the skip potion. There they can still go through the story again if they suddenly see that maybe there isnt that much at endgame and SE does not need to change anything at all (and gets more money out of it too).

If people solely want a single player game, they aren't going to settle for a mangled MMO version of one that has such outrageous demands. They will go play a single player game with better graphics, polish and more accessible gameplay.

Well one can also say: If someone does not want to play a story heavy MMO then simply play any of the other MMOs. Honestly the new starting point would only make much sense (IMO) if we had a huge amount of battle endgame content on top of that. I can already see people that use the new starting point, get throught the new expansion (with not a single clue on how to do anything) only to find out that endgame is not that great if you only want to do battle content and then unsub.