New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Melorie]

Pretty succinct. I've recruited a few friends, and more than half ended up getting burnt out on the fedexing before they mattered. While a lot of them started off enjoying the story, the quantity of the social-discouraged play eventually wore them down.

Yeah! And I mean, while I like the story, with the time that gets you to complete ARR main quest line, you can probably play a much better single player rpg out there, with a much better history and that will probably give you a bigger sense of progress while telling their tale and maybe even with less filler (if you're not going for those open-world rpgs...). Of course, it's going to be a solo experience but it woud be the same with FFXIV.

And giving people paid options doesn't really solve the problem. People have to like the game to start investing in it, and the new-player experience is far from something that will sell these expensive jump potions easily. Most people would rather give up than invest.