Quote Originally Posted by DPZ2 View Post
After which, you are ... where?

It takes 50 levels for you to become recognized as [the] Warrior of Light. Are you going to dump all that in 2 hours and move to Heavensward?

It takes another 10 levels to resolve the DragonSong Wars, are you going to dump that into the same 2 hours and start out in StormBlood?

It takes another 10 levels to work through the Garlemald situation, are you going to dump that into the same 2 hours and start out with ShadowBringers?

Do you want to run through levels 1-50 and then, at the credits to 2.0, incorporate "highlights" of the next parts of 2.x you're intent on skipping in interests of time?

Better to run a skip/jump potion and be done with it, since you're going to miss all of that potential story anyway.
I agree with this. Square Enix has made condensed stories before with the Kingdom Hearts series. 358 days was okay and recoded was painful to watch through, but both were almost 3 hrs long fro two ds games that honestly did not have that big of stories when compared to ffxiv. There is no way SE could condense our expansion stories into just two hour movies without leaving a lot of context out. Also, se is a video game company and their attempts at movies have been horrific to meh. Not to mention how much effort and money it would take to make condensed movies. It wouldn't be just mishmash of current cut scenes. A better more cost effective way to handle the msq is making it easy to get through it and allowing players to level quickly by just running it so there is no extra grinding necessary.