Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
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You keep comparing it to separate games, when it is not. It's all 1 game. It's expansions of exactly the same game.

So, a better comparison would be games that add DLC to the end of their games to continue the story. If they used the same game but expanded the story further, such as DLC, then yes, I would play through THE WHOLE STORY including DLC's before I went back and did old stuff. If they had put FFX and FFX-2's story on the same disk/game, then yes, I would play through both FFX and FFX-2 before I went back and did everything else. Exactly the same as all 3 of the FFXIII's. Can't really compare FFXV with it though, since the majority of DLC's for that game were more exploration, dungeons and such. It didn't really add much to the main story.

I also never said I would tell people it's "200 hours before you can have fun in the game", I said to tell new players they have to play through 150-200 hours of story before they reach end-game. None of this is false. For those who want to get through the story to end-game so they can go back and do everything else, this is nothing but a hurdle. Adding ways to get through the story section quicker (Not stupidly quick, obviously) would not stop people from playing through the game at it's intended pace. If people enjoy a nice, slow-paced game, then, by all means, they can play it like that. But, making people who prefer to get a story quickly have to play exactly the same way as those people is just an awful way to look at things.

Giving options to players won't change anything, it'll in fact bring more players in. Who knows why those 8 players of the above person left, but, I can only assume it's to do with the MSQ. If the MSQ had been made shorter, or there had been other ways of getting through it at a quicker pace than 150-200 hours, maybe they would have stayed, and that's another 8 people into the game!

I really don't see what is so wrong for people to ask for options. it won't change how YOU play the game, YOU play it how you want too. But, it'll give people other ways to play the game how THEY want too, increasing the amount of players that actually stick around, which is nothing but a positive for the game, wouldn't you say?