New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[van_arn]

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You're being willfully obtuse, to the detriment of every new player that starts this game.

Especially your thoughts about Coils betrays your lack of understanding exactly what you missed, which actually makes my point for me -- a new player is perfectly fine skipping further into the storyline, where the gameplay isn't a poor example of what Square has learned to do, even if they don't have a full understanding of the storyline.

A player that skips right in is no less a hero that one who doesn't. It's no different than starting a TV series at season 3 instead of season 1; most players nowadays started at season 2. Will a player have things go over their head? Of course, and that's fine-- just as the importance of Coils went right over yours.

The only difference between starting a new player at the gates of Heavensward and ARR is the new player doesn't have to run the ARR gauntlet which does encourage burnout. I've seen it, you've seen it. Don't try to tell me otherwise.

Just saying "screw those guys" isn't something I'm ever going to get behind, not when there's a better game past the part that burns them out.