New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Shougun]

As for the movie, cutscene, it boils down to some of that. But it might be simpler (in some aspects) is start combining quests. For example, Meridianum and Praetorium could be combined, particularly since Merdianum is literally you just breaking into the facility and killing Whats-er-face. You could move her boss fight a lot earlier, remove the whole bit about having to take down the Shield towers, prop it up as it's just a heavily fortified base, and you just cut down a lot of time right there.

Of course I stll think the whole accerlated start is a good idea lol so we may have to be like "naw you" back and forth which is fine at least you're not calling me names (and I hope you feel the same lol).

But I think combining these two could be quite the journey feeling.. may have to adjust a few things (I don't think as many people would want to MSQ roullette it if it's like a 2 hour dungeon unless the reward is really bumped up.. but of course we'll get threads on it anyways lol). Yet just picturing say myself going through it, as if I could do it solo (maybe with some other important NPCs), it would be pretty neat to be able to go from the outside to the inside in one session.

I know you said to remove the boss fight/shield towers but I think you might be able to start on the outside :3 (and still cut a lot, I only use 2 hours as an estimate of the original times not what the new time would be lol).

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.

I was using movies metaphorically not literally 2 hours of watching. I know, or hope, it's my fault for making that not clear but it's a false representation of what I was suggesting to say it's a pure movie.

I also don't think the story is that complex that you can't get people understanding the core of the story in two hours. You will miss a lot of nuance but the point of it was to be better than a skip potion and to work towards people who don't care as much (at least yet) about those little details, the people not in LotR for the Silmarillion (Valar concept being a "little" detail, even though it's technically quite important).