The story is great, but it blatantly gets in the way of the rest of the game

[pikalovr]

I've played through the MSQ multiple times. Lore and creating multiple characters are both things I like. It's certainly a bit of a trudge to get through parts of it, but other parts I really enjoy replaying, and it certainly doesn't send me running back to endgame – there simply isn't much there for me. I'd rather build up another character and play with glamours.

I continue to be puzzled by the argument that "it's toxic to tell people to play something else". I've tried and disliked and abandoned dozens of games over time. It's how I find the things that I do like. No game can cater to every player, so if you have deep-seated issues with one then there is probably something else out there that you'd enjoy more.

Like it or not (I'm not particularly keen on it myself) we have signed up for a game that we accept requires a monthly fee. If you play through the MSQ, that's maybe two months of paid subscription that you pay for. Money + time in = progress out.

A skip fast-forwards you to the result of that two months' progress, giving you the progress without needing to spend the time. From that perspective, it makes some degree of sense that SE wants you to pay them the money you would have had to spend on subscription fees to get to where you want to go.

On that logic, you haven't lost money by skipping (assuming you would have persevered to the end) and you're still well ahead on time spent, which makes it seem like not such a poor deal if you're willing to pay at all.

I won't deny it – a free skip option would be nice. But I can't see SE introducing the option for players to infinitely do it for free when right now they make money off it.

1. as i've stated before a story skip option will in no way shape or form affect how YOU play the game so stop using that as a counterpoint as to why others should slog through parts

2. cause it is toxic it's why telling people oh you don't like a thing about the game? go play another game, is toxic. like i said i didn't even join for the story and thought ARR was a slog so i should've just quit right then right? and not come to actually enjoy the story later on. get off this high horse of well people don't enjoy the game for the reasons i do so they should just go play something else automatically

3.for everyone else please please never condone stuff like this it's the reason more and more game companies feel they can literally do anything and get away with it or get a little backlash then attempt it again like 2 games down the line

also yes a free path to skip story will lose them money but very few people are gonna sit there and level 5 different alts through dungeons and trials alone their main and maybe one alt at most there's still plenty of reasons to just "boost" your character/alternative jobs they wanna play