MSQ Needs Further Condensing

[SturmChurro]

You know, you likely would get way, way more support from everyone if instead of asking SE to spend dev time butchering the MSQ further and further each expansion... just for the small % of players who only want to grind dungeons/raids/trials... if you instead asked SE to allow new accounts 1 free story & class skip on their 1st character.

This would enable new players to skip to the current expansion on 1 class for free, play with their friends and shorten the time to endgame grind. If they want to skip more classes or characters through msq... they can then pay for it.

I'd say you'd get more support for this, a once off story & class skip for new accounts, than continually pushing for the central aspect of the game (FF story) to be butchered for an extremely small % of MMO players.

I just don't think that's true. Why do I think that? Here, for reference:

Over a year and a half ago..
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...nsion-Problems

I simply didn't want to pay for a story skip, right? I even went so far as to make up an imaginary friend, so I could push for a free skip?!


Some real bangers:
64 likes on this one. I can see why!

If you don't like the idea of a skip potion, what is it exactly you are proposing they do to fix this, if not allow players to skip content? Or is it just the fact that you have to pay for it?

What would you guys do with this opinion?! Is against skips, but.. wait.. wants the story to be condensed?!

a part of me feels like skip potions shouldn't be available to brand new accounts in the first place. Those tools by themselves do have a purpose and are entirely justifiable if one is trying to make an alt, but a new player who has no pre-existing experience with the game doing it kinda rubs me the wrong way.

That said, yes early content does have issues. However, no problem is ever solved by pretending it doesn't exist and skipping past it. What could be done is some parts of AAR being streamlined the way that Crystal Tower's introductory questline was in a recent patch, adding shortcuts and alternative paths that allow players the option to skip all the no longer necessary padding without missing out on the necessary learning experience and major plot points.

I know you all will probably LOVE this opinion. Give it a like! Go on!

If people feel the need to skip that to get to the end-game grinds... Then they really do need to consider why they're playing this game as opposed to one of the other ones that caters to that gameplay better.

It's sort of like buying a book, then just reading the last chapter and saying "Well, I can read the rest of it later" but then you've only got the Epilogue left to actually read, which can be decent, but will always pale in comparison to you know, actually reading the story proper throughout the entire book.

As you can see, I had made up my "friend", because I didn't have the best interests of the game's target audience at heart! How despicable of me!

Who is this "new player" you speak of? You claim be talking about a general issue affecting all new players, but you've made it clear that you aren't one, and the friend you used as an example doesn't seem to appreciate the vast majority of content the game offers. At this point, I'm not convinced that you have the best interests of the game's target audience at heart.

Go on shower it with likes!

... probably isn't who this game is made for. And that's perfectly okay because the MMO market offers them an overabundance of alternatives.

Enough. I am tired of reading this. Long story short. Nothing will ever be received well when it comes to any sort of criticism to this game's story. Period. Sorry. Me having the audacity to suggest a free story skip would be beyond too far.