Quote Originally Posted by Tuska View Post
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Kind of echoing what’s been said, but to reiterate: SE cares very deeply about story, and want people to experience it. They made it very clear when they removed the option to skip cutscenes in the final two 8-man dungeons of 2.0. They don’t want players penalized by wanting to see the story (ie get left behind). If you don’t want to do story content, you can pay so skip it. If you still don’t want to and/or don’t want to pay, why are you playing?

This isn’t meant as a “don’t like it, then leave!!” statement, but rather a request to take a look at the game situation and if you are enjoying some aspect, then great! But if you’re hating it, there are other games that are much better in some aspects or another and maybe try them out? Myself, I check in but I’m kinda done until the next expansion. I could do an alt, or I could catch up on Guildwars or finally dig into Sekiro...

If you are talking about a rush to endgame “where the game really starts” in most MMOs, this one not so much. The end game content has always been fun, but lackluster in the long term.