Yoshi P - Your next live letter, DT msq and the damage to the brand

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Originally Posted by Nestama

I mean, there are people who were fine with and even loved the expansions story, though. Does their opinion not matter as much as those who did not like/hated the expansions story?

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Where did I imply that their opinion doesn‘t matter?
If you read my other comments I actually do say that it is completely fine to like the story.

"Damage to the brand" is such an overblown exaggeration lol. It wasn't great, but it was better than both arr and stormblood. They also had an insanely tough act to follow after shb and ew, especially since they need to restart more or less. Also it's looking like we may get the best savage raid series in the game, along with the other massively improved content.

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Originally Posted by Zuccubus

"Damage to the brand" is such an overblown exaggeration lol. It wasn't great, but it was better than both arr and stormblood. They also had an insanely tough act to follow after shb and ew, especially since they need to restart more or less. Also it's looking like we may get the best savage raid series in the game, along with the other massively improved content.

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The lowest critic score since 1.0, the player base sharply divided, and coverage of the game has moved from almost universal praise to serious concern about its future. If this is not damage to the brand for you, then I am not sure if I can explain to you what damage to a brand looks like.

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Originally Posted by Eyrilona

The lowest critic score since 1.0, the player base sharply divided, and coverage of the game has moved from almost universal praise to serious concern about its future. If this is not damage to the brand for you, then I am not sure if I can explain to you what damage to a brand looks like.

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Let's be real, cuz Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree also had that issue, and its brand is doing completely fine.

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

I don't get why your quota is one good deed per day.

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Hey go after the people who do none

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Originally Posted by Kranel_San

When they said they'll start a new 10-years long story, we definitely didn't expect them to redo 1.0 failure all over again.

I, for one, cannot wait for the HW period of this new story.

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it will take 2-3 expansions now to undig the grave they put the game in. I'm surprised we don't see posts about a classic endwalker server..

I mean... theyre going to celebrate a successful launch if anything. Whether or not folks like the story, its what we got for at least the rest of the expansion as its far too late for them to do a U turn. As for the expansion overall, lull story aside, if they continue with the decent content im more happy with it, we'll just see what the 24m raid, criterion, and field zone bring to the expansion.

What damage did this expansion do that other expansions haven't done at least once? You all on these forums are crazy. This was literally like an ARR 2 and being the beginning of whatever giant plot is next. Funny that I'm still playing now because the content still stays after the msq is fun, and there's patch things later to do, and all of those are fun. Some of Stormblood 's content made me actively not want to play and EW's patches were such a snooze fest.
People have rights to complain about the story, but "damage"? Lol

These kind of posts are honestly wild and only do more to prove the point on just how spoiled FFXIV players actually are. Y'all were so unbelievably spoiled with Shadowbringers story that you are treating DT's slow build up setting up another decade long story like they released a completely broken and buggy expansion or something.

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Originally Posted by Selova

you are treating DT's slow build up setting up another decade long story like they released a completely broken and buggy expansion or something.

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"It's get better after X hours" is not an excuse for bad content. And there is no building for the next story. The expansion zones will be like any other expansion zones and Wuk Lamat will be Lyse. It will be old content and probably the only thing we move forward with is the magic key and multi hyper space travel to other reflections. Meracydia probably will show up and will have a teleporter :)

And if they won't deviate from the template last 3 expansions were made we already can tell which patch gets which content, which patch has new combat/crafting gear, and so on. The game hasn't progressed much since Shadowbringers if at all.