Thoughts on Isgard Lockout.

[Blueyes]

I can understand why people would consider locking jobs behind a large amount of leveling and story content to be an "okay" thing to do, but what continues to baffle me is why people think that decision is better than allowing these jobs to be accessible at level 30. (Please note that I'm not saying Ishgard at level 30. Just the jobs.) How would that in any way harm the game? If the answer is to motivate players to play though the Realm Reborn story, that incentive is not removed by allowing earlier access to these jobs. There is still plenty of other content that (reasonably) follows the completion of that story to motivate players.

Also I'll add a link to where this topic had been discussion at length. The topic died and I'm okay with that. I mostly wanted to reach Dev attention and I'm sure it succeeded at that despite no response. Many people voiced their opinions and as it turned out most people on the forum could care less. Supposedly that makes the decision good business practice. In any case the planned requirement is likely to stay and I hope in the future they think very carefully about the way they implement new jobs.