Quote Originally Posted by Squigley View Post
Hmm! Now that you mentioned it, I remembered that I do have one friend who has actually quit other MMO's because of too much freedom. However, he did play FFXIV to level cap and MSQ end. He needs the game to tell him "Now do this" or he gets overwhelmed by possibilities, doesn't know what to do and gives up. For example Black Desert Online was too much for him. He liked the game but he quit because the game didn't make him move from one activity to another and set goals for him. So forcing the MSQ does have some positives to it even though I don't personally like the forcing at all.
thats why my suggestion is not to change the basic setting, and have this content unlock and msq selection be something the player has to actively seek to do, like interacting with a specific npc/item/menu whatever.