We need a new ARR

[MikkoAkure]

I'd be down for adding a cat jail, But honestly with the size of the new cities they really don't got an excuse why Uldah limsa & gridania are split, Those zones could do with some love for how popular they always are. Every time an expansion ends people just slip back into one of the three starter cities without fail.

Sol 9 and Tulliyol are empty af rn, Same with the endwalker cities.

The ARR cities weren’t split in 1.0, but were split in ARR likely due to PS3 limitations. I’d be down for fixing that.

But expansion cities haven’t been super populated since Kugane because we get further and further from the base content where all the newer players are. People fall back to the old cities because everyone is there, and everyone is there because it’s accessible to everyone regardless of MSQ progress and Limsa in particular has the aetheryte in the same half as the MB and is only like 10 meters away from it.

I don’t see that player habit changing unless they do something like having a new expansion unlockable regardless of MSQ progress, which is honestly what I was hoping for DT.

[AshtonCrowe]

The ARR cities weren’t split in 1.0, but were split in ARR likely due to PS3 limitations. I’d be down for fixing that.

But expansion cities haven’t been super populated since Kugane because we get further and further from the base content where all the newer players are. People fall back to the old cities because everyone is there, and everyone is there because it’s accessible to everyone regardless of MSQ progress and Limsa in particular has the aetheryte in the same half as the MB and is only like 10 meters away from it.

I don’t see that player habit changing unless they do something like having a new expansion unlockable regardless of MSQ progress, which is honestly what I was hoping for DT.

Which is why i want them to re-use old zones, Tying everything to MSQ progress is detrimental to the game.

I personally don't even think new characters should start in ARR anymore, Allow them to choose to skip. If you skip you still start at level 1 but everything up to current expansion is discovered, You still get all the side quests but the MSQ is complete you don't get their rewards either it's a true blank slate, Then give them an additional 200% exp for doing fates and 100% for doing Dungeons.

ARR Is filtering way too many players

[RoboticNomad]

Which is why i want them to re-use old zones, Tying everything to MSQ progress is detrimental to the game.

I personally don't even think new characters should start in ARR anymore, Allow them to choose to skip. If you skip you still start at level 1 but everything up to current expansion is discovered, You still get all the side quests but the MSQ is complete you don't get their rewards either it's a true blank slate, Then give them an additional 200% exp for doing fates and 100% for doing Dungeons.

ARR Is filtering way too many players

I agree, if at all possible they need to find a way to 'cataclysm' the starting zones and have the plot be mostly in the new versions of these old zones. The end times of end walker would have been a great excuse if it was allowed to actually ravage the land a little instead of only really effecting Garleans and Thavnir. Not so sure what they could do now unless its some kind of large parts of shards refuseing to the source. Like Alexandria on a larger scale.

You only need to give players a brief synopsis if they Skip. Yadada 14 shards, ancients fighting , yadada but you're the one who walked his own path the shard of Azem yada world needs you again. Then throw the new players into the new expansion. Since the old areas will all have changed they'll catch up on where everything is and who they all are pretty quick.