Quote Originally Posted by Alicie View Post
It is frightening to see the game that empty. Even on popularted data centers amount of activity is very low. Influx of new players is very low and very slow, sloggish start does not helps. I can not bring any friends into game because they are facing multiple hunderds of hours grind (or extra $50) before they will be able to do any relevant content.
Please allow new people to start in latest expansion.
It's like people forget that there's a whole ass story to do and your endgame friends can sync down to do duties with you... or make a new character to run it with you... specially since no content is particularly time-limited, there's really no rush to get into anything.

What content are they so desperate to do that they simply must skip everything that sets this game apart from other MMORPGs that actively ignore or delete older content, even against its own community's wishes? I feel it's more like endgame players are giving newbies the wrong idea about this game, or showing up expecting XIV to operate exactly the same way as other MMOs they've played.


The juicy part is the journey, not the destination.