Playing an expansion as current content has been a lacklustre MMO experience

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Filler to the arc itself, like nation plots or team building exercises with Alphinaugh for 10 hours. I'm not advocating for removing them, please read carefully (Even if I bold this stuff people still don't read)

They should be multiple threads, and we shouldn't have to explain to people that they need to run through hundreds of hours of an MSQ that provides very little in terms of actual gameplay and the threads are usually pretty weak. It's 95% Visual Novel.

And let's be honest, mechanically.. MSQ doesn't meet requirements anymore, I'd have a better experience if you gave this to me in VN form to click through, rewind, etc.

People act like this story is easier to keep track of and digest than WoW, and I just.. Disagree. It FORCE FEEDS you, that doesn't mean they want to read and watch everything, so they could still be lost.

Why is the thought of splitting the story up so foreign to people, as if we don't already have 16 numbered Final Fantasy games and countless other offshoots where even they do a better job of splitting themselves up, including XI.

I understand we're too deep at this point. There's just not much else we can do about it now. I feel like the writers all blacked out for 10 years and forgot that people need to be able to actually jump in at some point. I understand media like Naruto and One Piece are popular, but I doubt they're really grabbing new audiences in NA. Maybe in Japan? So I think because of that, we might actually start to lose the global audience if we continue this way. (Spare me your anecdotes, I want numbers)

What they need to do is actually pay attention to how they thread everything out, start putting some of that stuff into more 'side-content' and leisure play instead of the fully linear experience. Half of each expansion could have easily been cut up, it's the writers' that are to fault for threading everything the way they are to rely on each other thread. (Or maybe Yoshi threatened them)

If they need wiggle room, do Major Arcs within 2 expacs. So you get the wind-up, then release.

This could also help lessen the feeling of our world being so empty, if we're given the choice instead of almost forced to speedrun this stuff once every 2 years. I'd have more time to review things. And when I'm in the right mood to learn and enjoy the Loporrits then maybe I'd be more receptive to stuff like that instead of feel like they're an MSQ wall. If they forced Hildibrand into MSQ it would be less liked I'm sure.