Quote Originally Posted by Tsubaki75 View Post
All content should be shiny and fresh to a new player. I just don't want there to be an even bigger gap with players that never learn how to play their jobs properly. I'm not talking about min/maxing.
The ARR and HW content isn't the shiny content they're going to be seeing in the commercials. If they see trailers/commercials for SB and all the exciting things happening there and then find out that they have the base game and a full expansion of required content to go through to get to the new hotness, they may decide it's just not worth it. They may be willing if they could jump in and either level quickly or jump to a certain level (both options in other MMOs) but there is a good chance they will balk at the requirements of going through the MSQ. It's FF's uniqueness that bites it in the butt here, since other MMOs do allow this sort of easy segue into the latest content.