Length MSQ from all the expansions - it is getting insane

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I mean, what do you want them to do, exactly? Truncate or remove parts of the story? In a story-driven game in a story driven series? I'm not sure what else you could want or expect, other than them adding a free instant-90 button which we all know they won't do because they charge money for that.

You forget the part where I said they lost the opportunity. Yes, they dug this hole themselves, and there's not a lot they can do about it. I'm saying I wish they had the foresight to NOT have fallen into such a deep MSQ pit.

I'm still allowed to be frustrated, in-fact I'm more frustrated because it's like watching a slow moving train hit a car that had 8 years to move away from the tracks.

You know what I expected? The thing that most series writers and even original FF writers do, they section things off and make them relatively contained by allowing individual story progression with some or even no overlap. You build a world, you write stories within the world. You don't need to write 1 story for the whole world and every event being the same thread.

This is basically a problem only JP writers continue to throw themselves at every chance they get. They write stories that just go on, and on, and on, and on and they require reading from the start to understand anything. They're so linear in how they tell the stories, that everything is required reading. They also love to develop power creep because of the linear storytelling in how the main character(s) are the most important AND powerful person in the universe. Like it's hitting all of the JP Manga tropes today.

Final Fantasy itself was the king of self-contained stories, so we know they can do it. They just refuse to.

Stop acting like the only options are

A. Play through the story
B. Pay to skip through the story.

Can I get
C: Stop writing all systems and story linearly for a decade

Like put this into context of the game and story, we had to literally get to the point of power creep and exploration, travel through TIME and TO THE END OF THE UNIVERSE. WHILE BEING ABLE TO KILL ULTRA GOD. To MAYBE having a chance at a new story? Like wtf is going on you guys? At what point do you think the linear storytelling needs to just chill out? Like we went from DragonBall to DragonBall Super in 1/3rd of the time. And most people think Super was pretty extreme.

Everything reeks of 'Too many cooks DBZ'. It's pretty nuts, I really don't think they know what they're doing anymore. Or ever did tbh. We know they didn't know what to do with Ascians until 5.0, they admitted to that as a fact.