SE, please add "No Story Mode" into the game

[Kaurhz]

There has been no change from the story being required to unlock features from Day 1 of ARR, aside from them later selling a story skip for those who want it.

I have no skin in the game if SE wants to develop a patch-story skip they can sell to people who can't be bothered to skip through the story manually.

As far as "research vs. playing" there is a free trial that covers 2 expansions and the base game. If you don't understand that story unlocks dungeons/trials/raids after that much playtime, then I don't know what to tell such people.

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.