Quote Originally Posted by Veritas-Ancora View Post
I really don't know what they can do to offer a skip to 8.0 but it would be welcomed. I wouldn't mind if the level cap stayed at 100 and there was just a whole new story that you could play in 8.0 from L91 to L100.

Dawntrail really is the worst content they've ever put out and it's a shame. The FF9 references are mid at best for a game as good as FF9, and the story wasn't worth the trouble.

Dawntrail is a sore that will never go away, otherwise. People will have to play it to enjoy anything past it, and it's just going to be a really difficult slug to push through for all players current and years down the line. I see this killing a lot of subscriptions in the future.
Given that the promise to new players used to be "The story improves and becomes one of the best among MMOs if you can put up with the first half of 2.X", the new addendum of "But later on you'll have to go through a story that's much worse than ARR" is probably going to do a lot of damage that can't entirely be measured.