New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Penthea]

i believe you enjoy msq, and feel it is the most integral part of ffxiv

That's not an opinion, it is a fact. You said yourself. It's a requirement to engage in nearly everything in the game. It's also the reason given for almost everywhere we can go and everything we can do. If that isn't integral or central, then what is?

what i am telling you is many others dont feel that way, and the longer/more of that they have to do to experience content they want to play, the less likely they are to keep playing.

What you're saying is some players don't feel the msq is central to their enjoyment. That's not the same as the msq not being central to the game.

This i think, is most likely with referals, because people being refered expect to play mostly with their friends.

This really depends on the person. For some people being in the same ls or fc as their buddies and doing content together only every so often is enough. Others at the opposite end of the spectrum want to always be doing content with their friends. There are many varying degrees in between the two as well. And of course for some people this changes day to day with their mood. I know quite a few referral players, some I referred myself, and their social habits differ from one another.