New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Skivvy]

Play something else until there are more things to do? No reason why one has to stick to just one game at a time.

FFXIV is a heavily story-driven game, so for people who aren't interested in the story it seems like a strange choice of game, and even stranger that they complain that there is too much story.
It is as if I would start playing EVE Online, and then start complaining that there is too much PvP in that game, just because I do not like PvP.

There are so many games out there that it seems wiser to pick games to play where one likes the overall design, instead of choosing ones whose design does not fit ones taste and then complain about said design.

You've missed my point. Many people in this thread and other threads continue to parrot the "If you don't like story, play something else" rebuttal. That might make more sense if we were talking about one of their single-player games, but we're not. This is an MMO, and MMOs cast a wide net full of various content to appeal to the masses, and to keep people occupied for a long time. The MSQ is just one portion of what makes up this game, there is plenty of other content that people are here for.

So yes, it's absolutely ridiculous to make the claim that if you don't want story, you shouldn't be here.

Also, I don't think anyone is calling for the MSQ to go away. People who enjoy it can still enjoy it. Just looking for options. SPECIFICALLY this this thread was created for the new player experience. There is an absurd amount of forced MSQ that people must do before they can get into current content, and that's going to turn off a lot of people.