(cont.)
Heavensward might actually have a good story, and I may even enjoy it when I view the cutscenes later at my leisure, when I'm in the mood to watch a movie, not play a video game. But you are wrong to fault me for skipping the story when it functions in practice as a roadblock. Many of you are veterans compared to me, and probably played through this content when it was new and live, and there were other people going through it for the first time, experiencing it together, which I suspect played no small role in motivating you and keeping you interested. I on the other hand cannot overstate how desolate these areas are now, rarely I'll pass somebody else on a black chocobo to remind me that I'm playing a multiplayer game, but that's all. It really is an unreasonable amount of catchup to expect someone new to play. And that's the long and short of it.