Thread: Making the case for a new starting point in 7.0

Originally Posted by Shougun

Not somehow, you've probably started quite a few games where your character did something you didn't know about until later. Of course someone might say "but /I/ didn't do it, making it feel less like the character is an extension of me" but in terms of lore it seems like a non-issue for story telling capabilities as there are many live examples of it, and a vaguely similar in FFXIV example of it given we've legacy start vs non-legacy start. Can see 2.0 start as the accelerated start and legacy players as the OG start- of course I say vaguely because technically there was some retcon and such too... lol.

For the devs of course the story skip is the easiest option, but I also feel like it's an awful option even if free. It just throws you at the wall at 900 miles an hour. Big frowny face from me on that being a good solution. Having the game give an accelerated lesson of gameplay, general immediate need to know lore, and also direction out of the gate I think is far superior to "WAM WELCOME TO THE GAME BOIISSS". Which is what the potion basically does.

How would a new starting point make that easier? They would either need to use hours of mindless grinding if they start a job at level 1 and if they start at a higher level to begin the new expansion they will be overwhelmed with everything too, after all those are probably new players that have to learn the whole game.

So what will that do to the dungeon quality for the new dungeons? How many more players will not know what a stack marker is? At least if they skipped with a jump potion they had to buy it first which can already stop some from doing that.

Also about your character: There is a difference between a character having some kind of life before we take over them (which can still largely be made up by ourself since there is nothing known ingame) and a character that has bascially 90 levels and several expansions of stories behind them which includes saving the whole universe.