Thread: Changes to early game with 5.0?

Originally Posted by van_arn

I'm very happy you enjoy the questing and the story. What usually happens, however, is people clear the msq once and never touch it again once they unlock the real game.

It's still boring as hell and the fact is it's taken me almost 5 years to still not clear ARR on one of my chars... got 4 or 5 done during ARR (Started X-Mas before HW), 2 or 3 more done during HW, and atm only 3 of mine are at 70 in SB, I've gotten waaaay lazy on it. I had 3 60s before Alexander Gordias in HW. At this point I mostly skip cutscenes that don't have interesting content, tho it was fun seeing the w/ w/o certain jobs leveled at some points of the game. NIN/DRG have a few points in ARR where the dialogue changes based on what you have leveled. I want to say Arcanist has one somewhere too...

Originally Posted by NocturniaUzuki

The mind set of "the real game" is killing newbies across the entire MMO genre.
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Yep pretty much, and horizontal progression MMOs are quite rare, and even rarer are the cases where they are successful. Tried WoW/EQ1/EQ2 last month after not having touched them for about a decade... bored the hell out of me. It might be time to have a pre-defined lifespan on MMOs. Maybe 10 years or so then just work on the new on at around the time of expansion 5/6.