Suggestion - An Alternate Start [Light, Vague 6.1 Spoilers Included]

[Zaniel]

Perhaps people should start considering it content instead of a roadblock. If you walked into the store tomorrow and saw a new RPG game with "1,000 hours of content" you would be stoked and buy that in the blink of an eye.

[IdowhatIwant]

Perhaps people should start considering it content instead of a roadblock. If you walked into the store tomorrow and saw a new RPG game with "1,000 hours of content" you would be stoked and buy that in the blink of an eye.

Not when about 600 hours of that content is a movie, or a novel.

[Iscah]

Not when about 600 hours of that content is a movie, or a novel.

That is literally the sort of content you expect out of a JRPG.

[M1SF0RTUNE]

Perhaps people should start considering it content instead of a roadblock. If you walked into the store tomorrow and saw a new RPG game with "1,000 hours of content" you would be stoked and buy that in the blink of an eye.

I definitely get your point, it *is* definitely content, but it's also preventing a lot of new players from playing with veterans. Like right now I have like 4 friends I wanna enjoy current content with but they're having to get up to specific level requirements and ESPECIALLY story requirements just to be able to do some of them (such as Heaven on High, Bozja, Eureka, and more).

But this is why I proposed the "Echo" idea since it's an in-canon plot device anyway for looking back into the past. New players could relive old content and cutscenes viewing through the Echo to see the WoL and how they completed these. The cutscenes would play out the same as they used to, and it functions like New Game+ in a manner of speaking. It still gives them plenty to discover *and* a way to go back and view the old story while being able to play in the brand new content of today that's starting out a new storyline. I'd call it something of a win win where they can play and discover the old content in a fun in-narrative way (maybe even earn experience while playing an ARR job) but still access the current stuff to join friends right now.

[Iscah]

But this is why I proposed the "Echo" idea since it's an in-canon plot device anyway for looking back into the past. New players could relive old content and cutscenes viewing through the Echo to see the WoL and how they completed these. The cutscenes would play out the same as they used to, and it functions like New Game+ in a manner of speaking.

Or they could just skip forward in the story as it stands, and simply use the existing New Game+ system to see the earlier parts of the story if they want.

No complicated alternate narrative. Just starting from Part 2 and accepting that you've skipped over some things. It's not that hard, is it?