Yes, as everyone is saying, we’re expecting to have to start again from the beginning. But on the plus side, we’ve been told that there will be lots of surprises in Act 1 even for early access players, so we won’t just be doing the same thing again.
Not much to say about this at the current moment, but I'll admit that I keep wondering to what extent they'll go about this.
I'm incredibly curious to learn if it will be just a matter of tweaking individual quests and interactions or if there may even been even some... geographical changes, so to speak.