Quote Originally Posted by VelKallor View Post
What makes you think that anyone besides you wants anything like this?
What makes you think no one else would agree with him?

In a game with hundreds of thousands of players, it would be pretty unlikely for his opinion to be unique and singular.

While I wouldn't remove 3.0 from the MSQ because there is a fair amount of Ascian involvement not to mention the resolution to what happened to one of the Scions following the Bloody Banquet, I'd be more than happy to relegate 4.0 to side quests.
Other than introducing Zenos, it did little to advance the main story and what actually happens with Zenos in 4.0 is pretty irrelevant to future events. We could have been introduced to Zenos as Gaius and Estinien burst in on him killing Varis and it would have made little difference to the later story.

So yeah, turning 4.0-4.3 into side quests would be possible. Those events could be presented as echo flashbacks of things that occurred while the WoL was finally getting to take a nice long vacation for a change (or perhaps not so long since all of 2.0 to end of 6.0 was supposed to have happened in a single year).

I'm not saying it should be done, just that it could and I doubt many would feel that anything important to the MSQ was lost. New players at the least would have about 60 fewer hours of MSQ to sit through without actually losing access to that content if they choose to experience it..