Ala Mhigo Reconstruction

[Edax]

I can understand them wanting to use Japan for inspiration, as they are a Japanese company. But it really should have been done in its own expac because they way it is shoehorned into SB doesn't feel as much of a national pride thing as it does catering to the weaboo crowd in an attempt to get more subs.

They literally took a story that could have been something great, something we have been hearing about since ARR (I cant remember how much we heard in v1, if anything) and rushed through it, completely destroying the one thing SE has going for it. Storytelling.

Some ppl say it was because of Sam and they had to bring Japan into it because of Sam. But they didn't with Ninja even though it relates completely back to Doma and they could have given us dnc or blu or one of the other 20 jobs ppl ask for and saved sam til the JP centric expac too.

But regardless it feels very sloppy and Lyse, Raubaun and Ala Mhigo deserved better treatment.

At the very least, I can feel real passion from the devs when they made Kugane. They had a culture they could base it on, and it payed off in one of the best looking cities (Kugane) I've ever seen in a MMORPG.

I don't know what Ala Mhigo was suppose to be based on. The concept art just makes it look like another Ul'dah. The Ala Mhigo armor was rather mundane looking, and the purple cannons that are everywhere look like they were from a cartoon. I don't think the devs ever had a handle on what Ala Mhigo was suppose to be because they didn't base it off a real world culture. This is why I'm happy the Hinganshi and Doma got so much attention, because having been to Japan and having visited the Hunan mountain cliffs in China, it really feel special to me to revisit these places in a video game during a more medieval era. I can't ever visit Japan during the Edo Period so this was a treat for me. While I'd have loved to visit Egypt or Petra or Jerusalem during their heydays, Ala Mhigo is clearly not any of those. In fact, I can't understand why the Empire even took it over, clearly they weren't interested in their quarries or salt and that's all the region is, salt and rocks. It's basically a wasteland filled with poor people, not exactly at the top of most people lists on things people want to visit.