Quote Originally Posted by Fresky View Post
It will affect us in a few ways.

1. Those people will have a competitive advantage in finishing leveling all the jobs to 90 faster if they skip the story, thus being able to show off their mount/achievement on social media earlier. And we all know that only the first few posts get all the upvotes/likes/attention.

2. It will create more pressure for other people to catch up to them, creating constant dilemma in those people about whether to pursue the story for fun or buy the skip for efficiency.

3. They can immediately access all gathering nodes, which allows them earlier market opportunities than the general public.
Only the last bit of this would concern me as the other two are vanity. Chalk it up to two issues I could (maybe) have with it. But, then again, I don't bother gathering or crafting. So it really doesn't affect me in the slightest.

I still stand by my point.