Refunded for Heavensward.

[Sartori]

All the time you've spent on here you could have been done by now lol

[Kuwaitum]

Seeing the EXP boost and the new weapon/armour rewards from MSQ and Job quests.. its quite easy to hit Lv.50, I've seen players Lv.48 with a Green Leaf on their heads (Still fresh). As for the Lv.50 dungeons, you are required to run only the ones that are part of the MSQ, otherwise they all are side dungeons that are only required a clear if and only if you want to unlock high level roulette.

[seekified]

Seeing the EXP boost and the new weapon/armour rewards from MSQ and Job quests.. its quite easy to hit Lv.50, I've seen players Lv.48 with a Green Leaf on their heads (Still fresh). As for the Lv.50 dungeons, you are required to run only the ones that are part of the MSQ, otherwise they all are side dungeons that are only required a clear if and only if you want to unlock high level roulette.

This. A friend of mine took a break just when 2.2 was released, and when he came back I tanked all the new dungeons for him. We got him up to 2.5 level in about three days. Even if you can't play for an entire day it shouldn't really take more than a week or so to catch up on all the post-Praetorium content.

[Lemuria]

Square just got back to me about my refund for Heavensward. I bought the expansion upon hitting level 50 expecting to move on to Ishgard, etc etc. Turns out I still had to play through all the irrelevant lv50 content, but in the meantime of doing that I grew bored of the game and had no interest in Heavensward, hence getting a refund. Kinda felt scammed.

Sorry, but that's the dumbest reason for a refund ever. You would still access the content eventually, it's not like it's permanently locked away. If you were never able to get to Ishgard, maybe you'd have an argument, but you don't.

Heck, when I bought Final Fantasy XI, I couldn't access Rise of the Zilart nor Chains of Promathia instantly either. I just enjoyed the game until they became available, and moved onto the nice stuff. Oh, and lest we forget that having Heavensward is the only way to unlock level 60, so you're basically wasting all the potential XP you could be earning during this intermission.

If all you wanted was instant gratification, maybe you should have bought a single player game.

[Kaedan]

If OP actually did get a refund for this... It really doesn't set a good precedent. SE has already been way too cautious, to the point of actually making things worse ("playstyle differences" and definition of the DF, anyone?), this will make them want to take responsibility for even less things. "Sure you can get your money back if you don't like our game, no problem." Right... And it's also a bad sign for them. "They don't like our story, we have to be paying them back too, maybe should spend less resources on it. Or not do a story at all."

I honestly can't comprehend people picking up a Final Fantasy game and not wanting to do the story. Not being interested in its world, in its characters. Are you all that young that this is your first FF game, that you know nothing at all about the series? Sure, it's an MMORPG, and trust me, there's more than enough grinding and RNG in it to prove that. Sure, it's an MMORPG, but when did that become an acronym for "just gimme my stats and let me raid"? Yeah, it's an MMORPG, but it's also Final Fantasy. A name known about doing new or unusual things, that regardless of all the familiar elements, always has unique things to it.

Granted, the expression "sufficient progress" is too vague - I can agree with that. But the warning is there, and if you find it too vague, there's always the internet to look things up and get them clarified, it is common sense. Being refunded for not having done what you could have done, clarify a warning that did look suspicious and obscure to you, is not something that should happen, in my opinion. (For all intents and purposes, I could finish each and every major content update patch in 2-3 days, and that's with doing sidequests, not skipping stuff, and really only playing a few hours a day. In addition to the generic DPS queue. Maybe except 2.5, but then that was a 3-piece one, so yeah.) And sure, you can dislike stories, sure you can wish for games where you're not forced to do that. There's are entire genres for that - hack'n'slash, moba, what have you. "RPG" should no be reduced to "character customisation and stats and roles-within-a-team".

I'm almost positive the OP didn't get a refund. The only possible way he would have gotten one is if he's from the EU and he played the EU "14 day return policy" card... and that would be a stretch because as soon as you start downloading digital content, you give up your right to a refund. And SE has a strict no-refund policy on their software without exceptional circumstance (you accidentally bought two copies when you intended to buy one, etc.)

Until he posts non-photoshopped evidence of this supposed refund, I don't believe it for a second.

[Perogwin]

I sympathize with the Op, first off I DID finish all the story pre HW, but once you get past the 1 to 50 story the expansions between there and HW contain a bunch of useless stuff. If they trimmed them by 3/4 you could still get all the important points without all the stupid filler they added. I still hope some day they do, heck even some of the 1 to 50 story is a waste of time and adds nothing to the game except annoyance and should be trimmed down.

[KaedrianLiang]

idk what the whining is all about but damn HW MSQ is the best platter of story in any mmorpg ever. You are missing out.

[AriaEnia]

Well if you get scammed, why don't you sue SE too while you're at it?

[Rumpelstiltzkin]

I knew it was going to happen that way before I bought the expansion and even then I grew tired of it so I can understand OPs position.

[Theonekitten]

This "endgame is the only game" thing really gets me angry, honestly. People just jump over value for the sake of being 'current'. The throwaway mentality of the day and age really is rearing its ugly head to me of late.

You can thank Blizzard for that! Their instagratification gameplay ruined the MMO genre.