We should get exp boost in the game.

[Jojoya]

I think it's about time we started getting exp boost and ways to skip the story in the game. Not to sound like a broken record or anything but, in WoW I can level to max in like 4 hours. Less if I really focus. It's not like it isn't there for a reason. It's like that so people don't spend all their time doing old content and so that they can catch up to current content. FFXIV isn't getting shorter and this is starting to become an issue. I'm not saying get rid of the story. I'm just saying why not give people the option to skip it if they don't want to do it and just want the new content? If it isn't right now, it will be daunting and very inconvenient for new players to start the game and catch up. I would like my friends to come play this game because it is fun. But, they don't have the time to invest into a story like that without feeling like they aren't getting anything done.

Just my opinion. Love Kair. <3

Edit: "Just buy a story skip" isn't an argument. New people aren't going to just drop $60 on a game to catch up to current content when they just paid $60 for the game. $120 just to play current content? Nah.

Except "just buy a story skip" solves your problem. What you want exists. You don't want to have to pay for it.

XP boosts for a new character won't help when access to content is still gated by MSQ progress. The story skip would still be needed if your goal was to jump into end game as fast as possible. If you're talking about XP boosts for leveling alt jobs, we've already got plenty of XP boosts available.

You need to accept that FFXIV has a different game philosophy than WoW does for all that both are MMORPGs. WoW is all about level cap content so it doesn't matter if you rush to level cap in 4 hours. FFXIV is about the journey through the story, which includes the development of your character, so trying to level up in 4 hours means you miss most of the game. The journey itself effectively is the end game. The level cap content is just additional filler until the journey is ready to continue.

As for new players being unwilling to pay to skip the story, you don't know people very well. New players do it frequently because they think end game is the only thing that matters. Most realize just how much they missed out on by skipping and end up going back to make a new character to experience the game as intended.

WoW doesn't need to add a mandatory story since it's optional. FFXIV is the only game in the genre holding itself back. No one is saying to remove the story. Just let players choose if they want to do the story or not. Like I said this game isn't getting shorter with new expansions and eventually it will get to a point where the only people playing are the people caught up with current content. It will be the eventual death of the game.

FFXIV isn't holding itself back. It's being true to what it's designed to be - a game about the story.

It's part of why many of us who used to play WoW (and I played it from 2007 to close to end of Legion) are much happier here than we were in what WoW became.

Don't expect this game's design to change to suit what you want because it's not going to. if you can't appreciate a game that's about the story and not level cap, find a game to play that revolves around level cap instead.