So your arbitrary content locks fly in the face of your ‘living world’ of an explorable and open mmo. I enjoyed this game immensely, but the latest patched that changed early game killed my desire to play new characters, and the arbitrary and ultimately moronic decision to limit your ability to move through story quests (from freedom to challenge challenging story quests, now you’re holding my hand! Mom?) pillaged my desire to play the game.
Congrats on the downward spiral of standardizing your game and slowly killing something that was once moved in the direction of how mmos need to go into a soulless machine that gorges itself on hollow and ultimately meaningless expanding profits.