Quote Originally Posted by Myrany View Post
I strongly suspect SE is focusing on new players atm. It is the perfect time to do so with the 10 year anniversary and the start of a new story arc. Without new blood the game wont survive another 10 years. Also New players stand to spend the most money going forward as they don't already have all the extra stuff a veteran has collected over the years.
Even if they are focusing only on new players, I'd argue they aren't really even doing a good job of that. The biggest barrier to entry for *retaining* a new player is the massive MSQ that you have to go through in sequential order. No matter how good the story, people are going to get burnt out and quit if they are doing it for dozens of hours.

In my opinion, if they want to retain new players, they need some way to skip parts of the story without putting it behind a paywall.