The story is great, but it blatantly gets in the way of the rest of the game

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Maybe they should do actual research on a game before they play it to know if it's for them or not rather than just assuming it will be like other games they've played?

There are some people that avoid trailers and stuff to avoid spoilers in movies and video games. So some people do not do this for that reason.

I am really shocked at how people that have already completed the MSQ don't want it to change to improve the new player experience. I will be honest if you replay this games MSQ frequently you are a masochist, cause it honestly is not that fun in any expansion. It is just simply a long story, which players can get with out actually playing through in the game already.

The best way to engage new players and keep new players is give them different options of leveling or experiencing the game. There shouldn't honestly be any reason why a player can't just buy the game and start dungeon grinding up to the current expansion. There shouldn't be any reason why some one can't just go spam deep dungeon or explore side content to level up to the current expansion. It is fine to have the story gate keep the current content, but it shouldn't gate keep old content, specially now that you have the unending codex on top of the unending journey inside the inn, and new game +. It is just gatekeeping to think players should have to be forced to go through that slog unless they want to.

What end game?

This is another problem as to why player retention goes down after a month or two of the expansion launch.