I hope 7.0's has a way to skip most of the current story

[Tlamila]

The game IS the story.

Without the story we may aswell be playing F2P Chinese MMORPG with zero background information on the world and some mostly naked gender locked characters.

The counltess people who have been playing for many many years and never cared about the story completely disagree with you.
People might say it's a final fantasy game before a MMO, but at the end of the day it IS a mmo.
A lot of poeple won't care about story and there's no way they'll pay a sub for years of just msq before they can get to endgame.
And "just buy a skip" also doesn't work. Box price + future skips is gonna be hundreds of euros, since with every expansion the skip price increases by like 10 euro.

Anyway they already said the story is getting too long for new players and they'll do something about it, so...all those "this game would never do it!!" are just ridicolous.