Quote Originally Posted by Delily View Post
While I share your opinion, I should point out that makes sense only if the 3.0 quest line is gated by the 2.1+ quest line. They could just gate it behind the 2.0 line (up to and including the fight with Ultima) and leave the rest of the primals as optional.
Agreed, except for the problem of how you jump from the story at the end of 2.0 to where the narrative has brought us by 2.5X. Players are going to need to see how Ishgard comes out of isolation, not just be dropped into it straight from Ultima. The story discontinuity would be horrid. This said, I imagine they will delete a lot of the fetch quests we currently have to speed up story progression.