Quote Originally Posted by ddwarbird View Post
I can't see why they did not do this in the first place because, its like taking somebodies money and then saying "You can't have your item until 2 weeks later when you've done all this to prove to me that you can handle it". I personally find it a little silly.
Honestly it was a poor decision, from a design and ease of use perspective. That said, as Enkidoh mentions, there are fairly valid in-world reasons for the MSQ lockout.

I know that it's frustrating, and honestly, I had several IRL friends quit right after coming back to the game for 3.0 for exactly this reason. However, if you manage to get through the 2.x MSQ and move into 3.x proper you can at least rest easy knowing you won't have to deal with the same hassle again just to access the new areas.