It’s 2026, we are gonna be 6 expansions deep into FFXIV soon. Can we stop with the weird gatekeepy behavior if someone doesn’t want to play through 250 hours of story to be able to play some of the best MMO raid encounters ever made?
Heaven forbid someone asks you a small lore question if they start getting interested in the story after starting the game 10 years late. Are we really gonna keep driving people away with this weird NIMBY ritual? Just use your social skills (lol) and answer the small question, suggest they start a story alt on their downtime, or direct them to a synopsis video on YouTube.
Crying about “story skippers” this deep into a game’s development cycle is peak cringe. If they set up a skip to Dawntrail for new characters to jump into the new story arc I and many others feel like it would be beneficial for the game’s long term health. While the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc is great storytelling it’s also not a sacred cow for people to clutch pearls over.
At the end of the day, it’s a game to be played. We’re all better than this and should start acting like it.
“You work too much” “you should take a break” “you’re so busy all the time”.
I understand people are coming from a good place when they say these things… but in my circumstances, failure is genuinely not an option. I’ve got nobody coming to save me, nobody to lean on, nobody waiting to catch me if I fall. I’m grateful I love my work, but I feel that people telling me to let off the gas truly don’t understand what it means to be the only person you can count on.