New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

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Looking at all pages I see kind of irony in the whole situation. Players right now complain, that 2.x-3.0 quests period is too long (100 MSQ). And that's pretty much true (and even so I personally still think that people should go through it, but with some adjustments - we have linkpearl, for example, why don't we use it, when it's possible, instead of running between two areas without fights again and again?). Well, they work on ARR MSQ now, as they said, so we will see soon, how it will be modified.

Because of this 3.x and 4.x story lines are significantly shorter, SE learned it from community. And quess what? Now players complain that story patches are too short. 3.x contains 44 MSQ, 4.x contains 40. But I bet, that if somehow 5.x will be, let's say, ~70 MSQ (so just middle between 100 and 40), there will be blacklash about "too much text" later again, when it will not be fresh content anymore.