Quote Originally Posted by Chasingstars View Post
That is not a hot take, ffxiv is a slog on alts. As what your leaving out is the mandatory msq quests, the 6 mandatory crystal tower quests, and the 3 mandatory hard version fights of titan and garuda and ifrit. If WoW players had to go through that, I think it would be a different story of being "alt-friendly".
I spent over 10 years in World of Warcraft leveling multiple* alts to max level without any mandatory instances. The storyline didn't require a single dungeon instance at all.

It still doesn't. The whole storyline is currently a fractured mess that doesn't matter at all in WoW, except as an excuse to have nostalgic dungeon and raid runs with no apparent context.

I have the ability to pay US$9.00 for the convenience of skipping all of those mandatory instances in ARR once I hit level 50. For leveling I think that could be as early as, um, level 40 content?

* 14 Horde/14 Alliance on Cairne - the week-old new Realm back when I started playing the game. Yes, some of us enjoy playing for the story.