Thread: Content gates vs instant access: 4.0 and beyond

I'm curious as to how 4.0 will be handled as well. I didn't mind that they gated HW access behind ARR completion, due to the nature of Ishgard and all. However, gating the jobs themselves I didn't agree with. Even more so when, once you get them, the 30-50 quests all take place within ARR areas anyway. Having the 30-50 lvling be available to ARR users (on condition they reached 30 on a starting class, of course), yet locking them out of post-50 xp and skills unless they have HW would've been a fair compromise.

Originally Posted by Martin_Arcainess

See the thing is, alot of people are saying new players don't want to trudge through old content, mainly story quest but to them it's not old it's new, so what they skip all of 2.X story but read through HW story?

Allow newbies to have the option to bypass the MSQ with a summary, and allow them to run the content later if they wish?

It's typical FF melodramatic storytelling anyway, and as usual per the genre; it's mostly cringe-worthy.

The big reason why new players were complaining about having to do the story for 2.X, was because level 50 content was made useless pretty much for people that have already done the story, and the fact that players wanted to experience the new areas and levels...

It was a horrible idea to just make level 50 content useless like that, and I honestly don't see the point in raising the level cap. I would much rather they just kept level 50 as the cap, kept the old content relevant still, and focused more of their time to create better end game.

I don't think those new players would be whining if the whole expansion was just an... well... expansion of the 2.X end game (I don't just mean raids). Everyone demands a lot of content, so why throw away all the content they have made before?

EDIT: My point is that, it's not as fun going through the level 50 stuff, when most people have moved passed it.

Level cap should stay on 60 in 4.0, old content should stay somehow relevant, filler quests should be simplified or left out, then the gate wouldn't be such problem.

2nd solution - put level 60 + MSQ summary into cash shop > profit. Trololo

There will always be gates of some kind people need to deal with that , yes they said they not going to lock stuff behind the MSQ for 4.0 but that doesn't mean all gates are removed. If they do raise level cap to say 70 I'm sure there be content out there that will require you to be 70 to do it or least a certain ilvl. Just depends on how big those gates are but there will always be gated content in some way.

Originally Posted by LandricFrey

Allow newbies to have the option to bypass the MSQ with a summary, and allow them to run the content later if they wish?

It's typical FF melodramatic storytelling anyway, and as usual per the genre; it's mostly cringe-worthy.

Says U, a lot of people are lovin it.