Thoughts on Isgard Lockout.

[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 Once this content is no longer current I bet that wait time will jump to an hour or more.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.