Quote Originally Posted by Kaurhz View Post
and people make these requests so that Square Enix can determine whether there is or is not a demand for change to happen. Just because it operated this way from a decade ago, it does not mean that it should be something persistent across the entire lifecycle of the game.

There are honestly several issues associated with their current design IMO... It makes the overall pacing of the story very predictable, whilst also simultaneously having a messy pacing because we need to commit wholly to a dungeon every over level, and a trial at 3, 9 and capstone.

I'm personally a fan of letting people play how they wish to do so, and turning it into an actual adventure of sorts.. Something that this game doesn't really do too well.
I honestly don't care if people make requests, it's in their right to do so and why the forums are here. I honestly don't care if people want to pay for a storyless option as opposed to manually spamming through the story they don't care about anyway. They already added story skips as a paid feature as a catch-up mechanic for old expansions, so maybe they'd do this too.

I more had a concern that someone suggested that not having this option meant someone was not getting what they paid for, or that it's somehow misleading that this game unlocks features behind the story when that's always been the case.