nexigrams posted... It's so horrendously bad that you have to do the entire msq, and all the quest lines from all of the patches they have ever released if you wanna do current raiding content.
I too, as a former CE raider from retail wow, can see the vast potential this game has to totally consume my life, but at some point they gotta ease up on this do the entire storyline thing to get caught up.
I get that they are proud of their game (they should be). I get that ffxiv players take pride in the story actually being good. It's just way too high of a barrier of entry at this point. They should really do something like maybe only require ARR (not all the patches either, just 2.0), and then Endwalker and you're done. If you want to do all the expacs, you get a special mount or something for doing it. That way, people who are already invested would still do it, and you wouldn't be making people wait a year to join your game.
I started the slog in March of last year and I'm like halfway there. It's totally too much. Not everyone is a wow degenerate like I have been for a decade. I have to imagine most new players quit from fetch quest boredom.
You know they offer store options to skip the content. Yeah, it costs money, but not that much tbh