ARR needs two simple fixes until an actual revamp

[van_arn]

If you're replacing game play with exposition dumps, then it's not much of a game anymore. And saying "but NG+" isn't really relevant, because what's the point of abridging the game if you have to go back and play it all anyway?

I'm not gonna pretend ARR is a masterpiece (a lot of jobs really do need more to do at lower levels, for one thing, and a lot of the English voice work is.....questionable, at best), but to say you could just turn it all into a couple of cut scenes is terribly reductive.

I would also argue that most of the old dungeons are fine, the later ones are overly streamlined. The problem most of them run into is the overly generous item level sync.

That's exactly the problem with ARR right now. It's an exposition dump with very little gameplay. It's a cutscene gallery, just like we see in the Praetorium.

Just make it optional. Having it available through NG+ is a way to make it optional. And I don't need to keep telling people "ARR doesn't represent the game, just tough it out until Heavensward."