Thoughts on Isgard Lockout.

[Rendecrow]

Holy Mother of Exaggerations, Batman!

If only I was exaggerating! My 10+ years and multiple different MMO experiences tells me otherwise. People are not going to find it fun to be grinding level 50 quests when they want to go to level 51+ zones. And yes, it will be a grind. Right now as a dps I sometimes wait thirty minutes for a story dungeon/raid. Once this content is no longer current I bet that wait time will jump to an hour or more. The story questline up to 2.0 is perfect, but I'm telling you that the 2.1 to 2.55 storyline is not going to be new player friendly once the next expansion goes live.

[Gralna]

If only I was exaggerating! My 10+ years and multiple different MMO experiences tells me otherwise. People are not going to find it fun to be grinding level 50 quests when they want to go to level 51+ zones. And yes, it will be a grind. Right now as a dps I sometimes wait thirty minutes for a story dungeon/raid. Once this content is no longer current I bet that wait time will jump to an hour or more. The story questline up to 2.0 is perfect, but I'm telling you that the 2.1 to 2.55 storyline is not going to be new player friendly once the next expansion goes live.

What you aren't taking into account, is that basically all older MMO's had a much longer and tedious lvl grind than XIV has. Also as has been mention, queue times for 2.X duties shouldn't be nearly as bad as they are now, since they are planning to allow us to run the content with less than 4 players, possibly even do solo runs, though that may just be my wishful thinking for later part.

Edit: Also I know expansions add a lot of content, but I've yet to see any Expansion/DLC/Update that was the sole deciding factor in me picking up a game, it's always been the core game.

[SDaemon]

silly rabbit

You are so far beyond exaggerating. There are only roughly 100 quests in the Astral story-line. Your 10+ years of gaming experience have failed you hard. New players are going to easily get to 50 from the Umbral quests just like everyone else who plays this game. Have you forgotten how easy it was to level your first 50? Apparently you have if you thought it was a grind. With the new jobs starting at 30 the low level queues will be alleviated as well as the fact that roulette (this includes low level silly) as far as we know are not going anywhere.

The 2.1 to 2.55 story line quests will not take an average player long at all to complete, save the dungeon and trial queues which already have mechanics in game to alleviate.