Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
That's not possible though because you can have multiple characters on the account at differing points in the story, and character selection/creation occurs after the title, so there would be too much complexity trying to flag story progression to determine what 'title/opening' to show.

Irony is, contrary to how it seems much of what the EW opening shows... actually... isn't all that accurate to what actually happens during the expansion so the context just isn't there (really, EW's trailer doesn't spoil all that much - just saying that you go to the moon and there's monsters there, Garlemald goes to hell and other things happen, Sharlayan has a special aetheryte, and oh and Mr Grumpy comes back.), so unless you have context it's just a lot of spectacle happening.

Maybe something like how FFXI's title screen just had the one default opening movie and then showed random views of places in the world, with expansions shown as a list of titles beside the game's logo.
Nah, for one all you need to look for is which character is furthest in the MSQ's. Just cause coding is a bit complex should not be an excuse ever.
We've seen the devs blame spaghetti code multiple times now and suddenly come with solutions the next update as if it's magic. Which it isn't. And it's far from impossible.
That said, yes it might be a bit too complicated of a solution as opposed to just letting players choose their intro and starting screen, but it would be much appreciated if they went the extra mile to prevent new players from seeing things they don't want to see.

And this isn't even that much about what is inside the trailers and intro sequences. While yes the things they show are nothing but noise to a new players. It is when those key moments happen, like "character X seemingly dies". Your immediate reaction will be "oh but they're alive in the EW trailer" NOT "Oh I hope that's not true".
Even if your reaction is "Oh they're coming back for sure!" it should not be based on what you saw from a trailer, but instead your gut feeling.
And yes "going to the moon" is a MAJOR spoiler for someone who's just starting out.