New Player experience

[Dante131]

Not just story skips, no outfits, no mounts, nothing. Time passes and well after 3 hours we tried it for the last time (we quested meanwhile and watched some houses) and still nothing. So, the thing is officially for the online store and lodestone this character hasn't existed for 3 hours... is this up to date? So what have we experienced in 3 hours as a beginner? The website of the game isn't aware of the existence of a new player, the game mechanics as eat food while another window (Moogle) is open are impossible since it's too hard I guess? So what happened after? Well, somehow after hours he was able to buy the skip and tried to start leveling. The limitations of the early game beside questions appeared again. What's with other characters, why is a shop item like an outfit not account-wide, why is the shop not in-game like in every other MMO? I mean come on even Metin2 has an in-game shop... So we started laughing really hard but not because the game was fun, it was because everything was so outdated and weird that we couldn't help ourselves otherwise. So yeah, it wasted time even he quested a little and got some mentoring of how the class he's playing works it was worthless since it was the middle of the night. By the way, he's still after hours missing his rewards from friend invitation... after 3 hours his review was and I quote "if it wouldn't be for you I would have deleted this game already" this made me think. Yoshi P was saying in a Japanese interview it's important to keep new players.

[Dante131]

SO HOW IS THIS A WAY OF KEEPING THEM. This game teaches you one lesson early "limit is not just a skill which you can use its the theme of this whole game" sounds hard? No! New players learn that they can't stay in a group of friends if they need to do a single instance (SINGLE INSTANCE IN AN MMO....) without disbanding the group (or leave it) in a game which actively forces you to do the story for everything. Riding a mount is possible after 4 hours of questing (why?). The battle is quite well for the beginning levels but feels very slow. The Lodestone was finally registered the new guy after 3 hours and shows he is in a guild since 1 minute... actually for 3 hours but great it realized he exists. If he doesn't pay a half of an expansion for one skip he has to do a terrifying amount of quests which was an instant NOPE and yes the story is good until 6.X BUT I understand everybody who is like why the hell should I play for 400 hours of story to start having fun with my friends. After he went to bed I was so ashamed to tell him and so many people in the last year how great this game is. It kinda is but stuff like you can't accept invites while you're reading post-Moogle or can't eat buff food while Duty Finder pops up. Ah before I forget can someone remind me what's the reason for blocking island sanctuary behind END OF ENDWALKER? Is it so much to let new people a space? Oh well, they can visit others' islands but can't do it by themselves nice... enough ranting, the game makes some good stuff for him as well, some mounts are funny and the world seems fine even if the zones are all disconnected for some reason with loading screens. How do we want to keep people playing this game if it limits you from the start and doesn't really change in the future? How do we explain this behavior of the systems in 2024? And how can we call that up to date and bashing other game methods as outdated (Yoshi P)? Give me all the hate you have.

[DiaDeem]

why is the shop not in-game