ELI5 How we went from this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5vqrKfADW4
6.2 buried memory trailer

and this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jmALV5kDVw
5.3 reflections in crystal trailer



to this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_UMKggEkUI
wuk lamat once again 7.1 trailer

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Originally Posted by Elissar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5vqrKfADW4
6.2 buried memory trailer

and this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jmALV5kDVw
5.3 reflections in crystal trailer



to this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_UMKggEkUI
wuk lamat once again 7.1 trailer

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https://media1.tenor.com/m/kdmiFln3J...doomer-sad.gif

Because of time. Time progresses and over that time things change.

Simple: For a company who's main goal is to make their share prices go up (even one as comically bad at it as Squenix), goodwill is a resource to be traded for more money. In the case of XIV, all of the profit (and talent)is being either siphoned by the executives, or reinvested in other games that will inevitably faceplant due to a myriad of reasons. Yes, this will obviously kill the golden goose that is XIV in time, but that's not the shareholders's concern, since they'll long since have sold their shares and moved on, and the executives will long since have stepped down with multimillion dollar bonuses.

It's called Maximizing Shareholder Value, and it's an ideology that has been destroying capitalism since its inception in 1970 by Milton Friedman. But most companies only got on the bandwagon in the 2000's, and we're now seeing the effects everywhere. Square Enix is no different. It's quite possible that Yoshi P's promotion to the board of directors was to force him to be beholden to the shareholders so XIV could be milked accordingly.

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Originally Posted by Elissar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_UMKggEkUI
wuk lamat once again 7.1 trailer

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I get it, you don't like Wuk Lamat, however, she appears for less than 5 seconds so I'd hardly say the trailer is all about her.

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Originally Posted by Espon

I get it, you don't like Wuk Lamat, however, she appears for less than 5 seconds so I'd hardly say the trailer is all about her.

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She should appear for 0 seconds

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Originally Posted by Espon

I get it, you don't like Wuk Lamat, however, she appears for less than 5 seconds so I'd hardly say the trailer is all about her.

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The point Elissar is making is that derp Lamat will be all over the entire story again. Crammed down throats until the end.

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Originally Posted by Espon

I get it, you don't like Wuk Lamat, however, she appears for less than 5 seconds so I'd hardly say the trailer is all about her.

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Didn't Wuk Lamat appear in the 7.0 trailer for 10 seconds yet the entire expansion was basically about her?

So you see, they wanted to add new stuff to the game during the Endwalker expansion, and they call this collection of new stuff a 'patch.' This particular patch was called Buried Memory, and they wanted to make players excited for it. To do so, the collected video recording of what will go in the patch, and the arranged those video recordings in a pleasing way, and added music . This is what some refer to as a trailer.

This isn't a new thing, back in Shadowbringers, they made a trailer of the Reflections in Crystal patch using a similar process, but that time the used different videos, and different music.

And now in Dawntrail, they made another trailer for the Crossroads patch, and this time they used video, and music music from that patch which had a brief shot of the new character, Wuk Lamat.

And now you see it it possible to make three trailers look different by changing the video, and music that goes into them!

Y'alls are really crying about an established character that, regardless how you feel about her, is important to the on-going story, showing up in a group shot and in gameplay footage?

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Originally Posted by Elissar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5vqrKfADW4
6.2 buried memory trailer

and this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jmALV5kDVw
5.3 reflections in crystal trailer



to this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_UMKggEkUI
wuk lamat once again 7.1 trailer

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Post-EW was super meh, Island was a great idea but turned out super meh but at least the fights and music were awesome.
SHB was great, (except Nier for me, since I find that to be the most boring and annoying raid).
DT , the story was mid, and written to appeal to kids and a younger generation, but everything else was awesome. The raid tier is great, the dungeons are great and the music is 10/10.

The worst patch(arguably) of each expansion has been the .1 patch. Compare this trailer to 2.1/3.1/etc. Unless you were really hyped for whatever the alliance raid was, it was always just kinda like this. By the time you get to .2 and especially .3 things start to get all hyped up in everything.

I hope that one of the quests has you talk to Wuk Lamat, and she asks if you like her and if you answer no, she deletes your account.

Hmm how come you didnt compare to 5.1 and 6.1 trailers? Is it because they're slower paced too? Also if you going to compare the only fair comparison would be 2.1.

Wuk Lamat needs to be written out of the story.

I'm definitely not going to waste my time with Wuk Lamat. Her story is over, no matter what Yoshi P. tries to tell us all.
There's no going back from my impressions of this character, nothing SE changes or rewrites will change my opinion.
I'm paying for a great game with a good story, cool enemies and equally cool friends, for heroes and for the WoL to be at the center of the story.
Not for a game that suddenly no longer respects me and some mangy street cat takes my place in the story.
With a story that is so stupid and boring that you have to fear becoming stupid yourself.

I'm hyped for the alliance raid, so I really saw no problem whatsoever with this trailer; if anything, it was exciting. Of course Wuk is gonna be somewhere in this trailer, they can't just chop off this story cold turkey, they're going to have ramp down from it so they can transition to whatever the next plotline will be. Anyone expecting she would just instantly disappear is kidding themselves. I actually think the fact that Alexandrians are gonna have to come to terms with the concept of "death" suddenly might end up being pretty interesting narratively... maybe it'll cause a bunch of conflict. I definitely want them to address the need to get rid of the Everkeep soul system since that still being in place at the end of the base story felt really wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jmALV5kDVw
5.3 reflections in crystal trailer

TAKE ME BACK!!!!! YAMETE KUDASAIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Volgia

I hope that one of the quests has you talk to Wuk Lamat, and she asks if you like her and if you answer no, she deletes your account.

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Sure! Let's put in a massive filter and tank the player base.
Not gonna lie, I'm ready for the meltdown a simple choice would cause if they implemented this.

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Originally Posted by Volgia

I hope that one of the quests has you talk to Wuk Lamat, and she asks if you like her and if you answer no, she deletes your account.

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Please Yoship!

You'll make people who don't act like the only important hrothgar npc the game will ever have (I am not looking forward to 8.0 going back to the Middys and Middys WITH DIFFERENT EARS of Seventh White Hair) killed their grandma so happy.

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Originally Posted by Kranel_San

She should appear for 0 seconds

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And then you people wonder why no one from Square is taking the english part of the forum seriously.