Please don't add the autorun

[Selsix]

I DO agree with it. But at the same time i understand that they will never get it off the cash shop. Because it brings money. Because ppl who make alts (and there's a LOT of them) do buy this.

The most we can hope for is if they go WoW route and make a special edition for the expansion that includes story skip and leveling potion by default, nothing else.

I mean yeah like I said in my post above yours, they should just throw the skip in for people buying the game for the first time. Or as you mention, add a special addition which includes a heavily discounted skip at least. Whichever route they take, the end result will be alts still buying skips as usual. Everyone wins really.

[Voidmage]

Needs to be free. You really can not ask a new player to pony up $60 for full game + $50 on top of that just to actually get to actually play the expansion they came for and expect game to gain any popularity whatsoever.

Either MSQ hyperfixation is to be stopped, or this game will just die. Maybe you could ask a player to do whole MSQ in ARR or HW, but we're now looking at 5 expansions worth of "content" (boring mindless back and forth with a lot of filler) before they can actually start playing. Seriously how do you attract new player? "Oh hmm, well, we have this epic battle but like, please spend 500 hours reading pray return to walking sands first"?

We need to begin accepting that players come to game to play. Not read. Not watch cutscenes. Play.

The MSQ hyperfixation is the entire reason why this game blew up in the first place.
If they sacrifice the MSQ just for the sake of endgame raiding then that is the moment it will die.

I really don't understand you guys. You act like people who join hate the story and only do it because of the "endgame".
The newbies I met actually started because of the story and didn't have any rush. Is it so hard to understand that those people exist?

If someone want's to do endgame so quickly, they are free to skip. I also give my upvote for an alternate starting point or an ingame story skip.
But I fill fight to the end against compromising the MSQ and changing the game away from why me and others started it just because you guys can't be bothered to skip cutscenes.

[SkankyRoe]

Just to name a few:

Thousand Maws, removed interactables, removed goo puddles and removed the vacuum spider web walls.
Removed interactables on the 2nd boss, removed the adds and walls on the 3rd boss of Copperbell Mines.
Removed interactable torches on the 3rd boss in Haukke Manor.
Removed adds on the 1st boss in Halatali, probably because the trusts aren't very good at target prioritization or switching targets mid-fight unless it is heavily scripted and their current target simply disappears.
Removed the snowball mechanic on the 2nd boss of Snowcloak.
Removed the need to kill the floating stone heads on specific platforms in Sunken Temple of Qarn.
Removed the cannon on the 2nd boss in Stone Vigil.
Removed dynamically placed poison puddles and the boss healing while standing in said puddles from the 4th boss in Brayflox Longstop (and for some reason removed the optional path when going from the 2nd to the 3rd boss???)

You quite literally just reiterated what I said:

Pretty sure Thousand Maws is quite literally the only reworked dungeon that removed any environmental interactivity outside of boss fights.

Note the bold, everything you listed off was either Thousand Maws or boss fights, and the Qarn heads+tiles mechanic was reworked rather than removed. That is a stark difference from your original implication that all interactivity had been removed. Aside from bosses almost all environmental interactivity was left intact. Just to name a few of my own:

Sastasha still has the coloured switches before the first boss and the clue at the start to tell you the correct colour. It still has the keys and doors as well as the optional side paths, and the first boss still has the bubbling floor grate thing.
Toto-Rak still has the orbs to disable and the bit where you have to grab an interactable from a dead end to remove the barrier in front of the final set of orbs
Copperbell still has the spots where you collect firesand and blow holes in walls
Halatali still has the chain interactables on the way to the second boss and the flame adds for the third boss
Haukke Manor still has all the keys and doors, as well as the barrier at the top of the stairs that requires grabbing an interactable dropped by the second boss.
Brayflox's Longstop still has keys and gates, and still has the optional goblins you can save for extra treasures
Qarn still has the heads to kill on tiles, they just no longer have the finicky positioning aspect. It still has the four tablets to be collected and placed as well as the puzzle before the 3rd boss, and the 1st boss still has the doom that needs to be cleansed by standing on the glowing tile.

Dzemael was already slightly reworked a while back and will likely be left as is. Aurum Vale will likely trim the room at the start in a similar manner as the big area between the 2nd and 3rd bosses of Brayflox but I expect the rest of the dungeon will be left as is. For the first and third bosses I expect the fruits will either be left as is or removed and replaced with a duty action subject to a cooldown matching the fruit respawn rates. Dusk Vigil will prolly rework the first boss and Shisui will prolly rework the first two bosses.

[Zakuyia]

As someone who plays on pc i thought auto run was already on there click v and your character auto moves you just control their movements with the mouse and tou click sprint bam auto running.

[Selsix]

As someone who plays on pc i thought auto run was already on there click v and your character auto moves you just control their movements with the mouse and tou click sprint bam auto running.

"Auto-run" is a bit of a false label for what they are talking about here. It's auto-pathing. Your character will automatically move between quest objectives for you, zero input on your part required once you turn it on. No steering required, the game takes you to the next part of the quest and you can just alt tab or watch tiktoks or whatever.

[ElysiumDragon]

So something from the Mobile MMO?

Good, keep doing it. The more things we get from the mobile client, the better.

[Absurdity]

Note the bold, everything you listed off was either Thousand Maws or boss fights, and the Qarn heads+tiles mechanic was reworked rather than removed. That is a stark difference from your original implication that all interactivity had been removed. Aside from bosses almost all environmental interactivity was left intact. Just to name a few of my own:

Yes, I probably should've mentioned that they removed them specifically from fight design when I first mentioned it.
I thought it was obvious because environmental and traversal interactables do not require any input from trusts in the first place, a single real player can deal with those, but clearly it was not obvious.

[SkankyRoe]

Yes, I probably should've mentioned that they removed them specifically from fight design when I first mentioned it.
I thought it was obvious because environmental and traversal interactables do not require any input from trusts in the first place, a single real player can deal with those, but clearly it was not obvious.

True if we're primarily focusing on boss fights then the vast majority were indeed removed. Which makes it odd that they left in the floor grate mechanic for the last boss of Sastasha which was completely ignored even before Duty Support was added. Also very odd is the removal of the flame adds from the first boss of Halatali but not the third boss.

[jomas_45]

You can already auto run and follow if you want to zone out in a dungeon or CT.

[ACE135]

I think this will make players to be even less interested in the world of Eorzea and players won't get that connected to the areas.

Maybe they will upgrade that feature in the far future from auto run to just teleport to the quest npc or area.