Quote Originally Posted by GeminiReed View Post
Maybe you've got so much IRL cash to burn that throwing it away on a paid skip seems reasonable. I'm not one that considers "pay to stop it make hurting" a reasonable concept no matter how cheap it is. It looks like enough other people agree with me that Square shifted resources to address it. IMO they didn't do nearly enough, it's still a massive slog that will chase people away.
I don't have a ton of money, and I think it's silly to assume I do just because I think that the paid skips are reasonable. But why pay for a game and then expect the creators of the game to hand out for free a way to not play a major chunk of that game? People who WANT the skips have the option to buy them. Those that don't want to skip, play the game it was intended to be played. "Pay to make it stop hurting" is a ridiculous way to look at it. Why would you buy a game, then pay for a subscription, if you go in with the expectation that you're going to hate this part of the content? At that point why even bother with this mmo and not go looking for one that better suits your expectations? In my opinion it's ridiculous to expect the creators--in this case SE--to bend over backwards to accomodate such a thing.

It boils back down to the fact that this is, at its heart, a JRPG before it's an MMO. That is why the content is story gated. On top of that it's a 10-year-old game with ever-releasing content. Going into the game not expecting to be playing some catch up is an onus on the player, not the developer.