Level Cap Increase

[Takfloyd]

I've been wondering... once the game has a few expansions, there's no way players will be forced to play through hundreds of hours of main quest to get to current content.

What will happen then? I really don't want the story to be "missable" if you don't start playing before a certain expansion comes along, they already did that once and that's enough.

Best way would be to overhaul the story and cut out all the fluff quests I guess. How did FFXI do it?

[Dgsoil]

Best way would be to overhaul the story and cut out all the fluff quests I guess. How did FFXI do it?

By making you do hundreds of hours of quests to get to current content. At least till Abyssea came out, I dunno about after that lol

You didn't get to bypass anything in 11, if you wanted to do Sky content, you had to unlock Sky the old fashioned way. Sea? Same thing. Do those quests, catch up. It wasn't a very new player friendly game to begin with

[Niwashi]

I sure hope there's a quest or something to unlock the level cap increase. It would sort of suck to have to do nearly all the level 50 content at 60 followed by starting the new expansion content already being at 60 rather than getting to advance as you do the expansion content.

EDIT:
(It would be nice if it's a per-class unlock, so as we bring each class up, we can spend a while with it at 50 doing 50 content before moving on. That's probably too much to hope for though. More likely, unlocking the level cap increase will unlock it for all classes at once.)

[Purrfectstorm]

I've been wondering... once the game has a few expansions, there's no way players will be forced to play through hundreds of hours of main quest to get to current content.

What will happen then? I really don't want the story to be "missable" if you don't start playing before a certain expansion comes along, they already did that once and that's enough.

Best way would be to overhaul the story and cut out all the fluff quests I guess. How did FFXI do it?

There was a great reward at the end of the CoP quests at least. SE should've done that with FFXIV story quests too. Then even though you don't have to do the quests, you for sure would want to.

[Taaku]

Best way would be to overhaul the story and cut out all the fluff quests I guess. How did FFXI do it?

When they finally got around to changing it, they uncapped capped fights, allowed you to take in NPC partners (making them soloable if you were not already lv 99) and other minor things, you still had to do the large amount of quests. but it was quicker because of the changes, and other QoL changes they made (easier traveling ect.)