Quote Originally Posted by Midareyukki View Post
The real question is... when you start the game, there's an entire status quo that is unresolved:
- You start in the 6th Astral Era
- You can't access Ishgard other than housing
- You can't access Ala Mhigo or anything outside Eorzea proper
- A lot of the world is still being rebuilt and dealing with outside threats
- Dragons are still angy, the Empire still has a stick up its fourth eye and is terrorizing a bunch of lands, a lot of countries are sheltered and closed off...
If you start a new adventure through such a skip, it won't look organic at all. It will feel like you just missed out on a decade worth of content that never once stopped being linear.

So if they do anything, either they need to skip the entire story and shove people directly into 7.0. And they need to scale things down, because odds are people won't be playing through ARR.
Or they just make up a whole new continent and at some point in the ARR tutorial you're given the option to stay in Eorzea and deal with four-ish expansions worth of drama, or travel there for a whole new breath of fresh air. But the Scions can't come with us, and it seems they're still going to be present in the future. Because it'd mean that they went through some personal development, and that's just not right.
...or something else that I'm just not seeing. Maybe this situation or "new starting point" is being misunderstood and odds are won't be as drastic as we make of it. It likely will still be a continuation of what's already been laid out.

Honestly, I didn't play World of Warcraft :P How did they deal with this? I know that you can sort of choose which expansion you want to deal with, but I assume some stuff is linear, like X character having Y development in one expansion and keeps growing from that into the other one.
yeah, well. That's their problem.