Quote Originally Posted by SamRF View Post
Newgame+ does indeed kind of make this possible for them. However, buying story + level skip is kind of a dedication and costs quite a lot of money (too much if you ask me). It also seems kind of awkward to play through the MSQ of latest expansion without having experienced former story. The story of previous content will also get spoiled (same when you unlock the instances without MSQ I guess, but likely to lesser extend).
Is it expensive? Well, yes. But it's probably less expensive than the time you would actually spend doing it all, so here is the price if you want to do things fast. Do your choice.

Also, even if MSQ was optional, people still would spoil it to themselves once they go into high end content. Eden alone is deeply connected with both Shadowbringers and Stormblood. It's connected even to A Realm Reborn and Heavensward, as the 50% of main cast there is same, and battles are in deep referencing to what we do in the past. What's next then? Optional high-end content storyline, too? Designing battles in a way so they won't spoil anything? Because making MSQ optional will affect team's freedom in what they can do with side content, either high-end or not. Are we still in FF14 even at all at that point? Or is it another game with same title, torn in order to "please more people", even though it successfully pleased more and more people with every new expansion the way it was originally designed?

And all of this for the sake of people that care only about multiplayer and nothing else? Maybe said people, if it disturbs them that much, should go and play games that are suitable for them instead of coming here and trying to throw its core away, to only cry "you broke the game, SE!" later, because that's what would actually happen?

It's one thing to ask for adding more clothes, character creation options and fixing jobs. Coming here and saying "you know what, can we, just, eh, change the way game supposed to work?" is completely another. There are plenty of games that are already designed the way you want them to be. No need to make FF14 the copy of them.