Option to unlock content without mandatory MSQ

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Depends. What's worth more? Skip potion sales or new player retention? The ARR rework suggests their metrics are reflecting the latter is an issue.

I don't think it's about either one. If it's the former, they don't need to change the MSQ. If it's about the latter, they could just bundle a free MSQ potion with every expansion.

They want the player to go through the story, but they are shortening it in that one part from what I can tell.

FFXIV's combat doesn't get interesting at all.

It got interesting for me the moment I fired my first Ruin all those years ago. No other MMORPG combat has given me as much satisfaction as FFXIV's combat up to this time.