Quote Originally Posted by R041 View Post
They ultimately need to get through MSQ, and it over-levels them anyway. There's 0 reason to even do open world content when it gives no exp unless you're BLU. The only time we get to do anything with new players is once every 2-3 hours when they can finally do a dungeon, then at the end of each expac with a series of dungeons and trials. This is not a good new player experience, and does not welcome them to much coop opportunities. 10% of my very close friends are even still touching FF.

Go play WoW and you'd realize that literally everything a new player can do, they can do by themselves with ease, and you as a high level player can tag along with and sync to their level and all of their side quests and MSQ. FF has done everything in it's power to make this a mostly solo experience. It ultimately promotes anti-social behavior.

Wake up, we have massive churn. This is not a good experience for PLAYERS (Not just new) and we're likely going to be in a large decline soon. As an MMO, I'd like more opportunities to play with ALL players.
And what is stopping you from helping them or reliving the story with them so that they're not alone? I was also talking about the open world monsters that story beats throw at you. And how is making sure they don't arrive to where they need to get to in the open world a bad thing or making sure that once they're out of CS and they're still in a non instanced area that they're not going to be attacked by something? You're not going to help them out if they choose to go unlock some side content that might catch their eye on the way to get catch up to where you are? Did you even try to explain to these friends what kind of game XIV is? Yes there are faults with the game and the Devs might make it look as though they're taking their sweet time making the journey better. But, if they didn't notice some of these problems then I don't think we would have gotten what trimming of ARR or the changes to MSQ tied dungeons that we have been getting. Nor any of the changes they have said they are going to be implementing with 7.0. Don't go blaming the game or the Devs if a problem is a player created problem.