Why Story Skipping in Final Fantasy XIV Might Not Be a Bad Idea

4 thoughts on “Why Story Skipping in Final Fantasy XIV Might Not Be a Bad Idea”

1. The problem is that a lot of the story requires you to still do it in order. You can't just start Stormblood without completing Heavensward first. There are plenty of lines that reference other events that happened, which was a very big issue in Shadowbringers with Graha Tia because they had to record different lines if you didn't do the Crystal Tower yet. That was why they eventually just made Crystal Tower a requirement. It gets really complicated real fast if you try to make every cutscene into that beginning of Endwalker where allies show up based on which quests you've already completed.

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2. i am fine with the story skip as long as those ppl later don go out and say "STORY SUCKS" andi seen that happen many times

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3. While not a terrible idea, there’a just the question of how best to accomplish that, do you make new players sit through like an hours long cutscene that explains things, or maybe expand the unending
   Codex to show all the highlights of each character/expansion.Or do you have a series of quests that make a player go through the main sections of each expansion, or do you just skip people to dawntrail and tell them to just look it up through the cutscene books if they want? I feel like people who wanna skip won’t care regardless of what they make them do, thier gonna complain they don’t get the story.

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4. Wrong.

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