Quote Originally Posted by Tlamila View Post
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.
But it's also ridiculous to argue that they have to invent a fully new entry point to get around this issue.

It would complicate any future references to the existing plot, confuse the timeline, make New Game Plus into a bizarre contradiction – if you start with the new entry point then go back to review these quests, did they happen to you or not?

It is phenomenally simpler to just keep the story continuous and let people join it at an updated entry point (for free) without any story concessions for the skip.

One free story skip to 7.0 and one free job skip to level 90 with the purchase of future expansions is all that is necessary to get people into the new story arc.