New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[van_arn]

Do you gatekeep a singleplayer game through the story? I think most games are kept in check through story. Heck, even dark souls is.

The entire point is this is not a single player game. It is a social game, Final Fantasy or no, and the MSQ causes friction between players at different points of that gigantic MSQ. Don't even try to tell me you haven't seen players burn out in 2.x.

Furthermore, it's not uncommon for a single-player game that offers expansions to permit a player to start at the beginning of the expansion with an appropriately-geared character, though not optimal.

So yes, demanding a player sink 150+ hours into banal fedexing fetch quests to get to the current expansion is gatekeeping. Keeping the "us" of players that have played the game away from the filthy "them" that might want to just start.