Quote Originally Posted by 0blivion View Post
do the gacha game thing where it asks "hey this is spoilers do you wanna do this content anyway"
Runescape 3 started doing this and its actually kind of nice. They let you do 6th age story quests before you complete the 5th ones but RECOMMENDS you complete 5th age story first. Not 100% sure its the right solution, but I would probably propose a hybrid between WoW in FF

WoW forces you to accelerate to the current expansion.
FF forces you to crawl through 6 expansions of story to play content that isn't either dungeons or dead.
Why no create an accelerated path that perhaps catches you up to DT or whatever the current expansion is but gives the option to take the slow-msq route?