Unpopular Opinions: 5.0 Edition

[Melorie]

Honestly, I'm not very excited for the new 24-man-raid. I loved Ivalice raids! They were my favorites so far, but I find the Nier Automata aesthetic meh, specially in a FFXIV setting.
Also Minfilia again, seriously? Poor Thancred.

I think that the lore seems sooo confused atm. I kinda miss HW where the story had a very clear setting and it was more linear, it ended up being my fav expac story-wise. While stormblood wasn't bad, the less focused we were on Ala Mhigo, the weaker the plot was imo. I liked Doma but I feel like the main plot was way more weak than HW.

I hope they don't go for some non-sense route plot-wise, I hate when jRPGs go that way. It usually only leads to confusing and poor writing.

Viera is eh. Not going to consider changing races until we get another cute and small race that's not on the "cute skimpy anime girl" department.

[SenorPatty]

Urianger is unf.

Matoya is probably a title... If not, im so done with the whole interdimensional/time traveling/illogical stuff. Im so done with these "intersomethingsomethingwordystuff" interventions..

And since it's time travel...MOAR ALLAGANS! (probably)

[Dualgunner]

Gunbreaker looks like some amalgamation of PLD/DRK, and unless they are really creative, ammo is just gonna be Dark Arts wearing bullets. If that happens, then another slashing sword tank is a terrible waste of potential for Gunbreaker.

[noxen]

That was an example of how it can go horribly wrong. Having played the game for years myself, even during WoD, it was certainly a rough time to be playing WoW. BfA is a close second though in regards to being horrible imo and it has nothing to do with time travel. I haven't touched the game in a few months.

I did 8.0 content, raided G'huun NM and left it at that. I'm just not interested in the backwards-ass systems in place, the lack of open world content, the abysmal story-- No, I won't go on a rant here.

Unpopular opinion; I don't really find the Pixies to be all that interesting. It's clear they're going to play a major part in the story MSQ, but they're just... Pixies. They remind me of the Sylph a tad too much to be interesting or unique.

[Cerbolt]

I'd rather they worked on the races we've already got than adding new ones. I'd take more face options over the viera any day.

[Tharne]

What is this mess...? Why are we not preventing the use of Black Rose? Why is what we SHOULD be doing, being done by someone else and we kinda just get that teased...? Im talking about Ascian fighting. Yeah, Elidibus, remember him? Remember Zodiark? Can we please explore OUR world and OUR story?

Talking like that without knowing what happens in part 2 of 4.5 is short-sighted, maybe 5.0 is a result of fighting Ascian and because we made the light too strong something worse than a calamity (as it is said in the trailer) is happening. Also talking about "our world", "Hydaelyn" and "Zodiark" but not wanting to go to other shards (or even wanting to have anything to do with them) is weird since that's the whole shtick of Hydaelyn and Zodiark battle...

[briarth0rn]

I don't really care how out-of-place the NieR raid is in this setting, I think it looks like it'll be a lot of fun. I don't take my WoL's canon so seriously that I'll say no to them going on a weird bullet hell adventure with cute robot girls.

[Renato]

Final Fantasy XIV is starting to feel... like mere fan service, like a bad japanese fan service anime... Or more like a very bad filler arc in otherwise an amazing series that has troubles keeping up with it's main plot... Yeah... We need more Hydaelyn. We need more empire, we need more ascians, more primals and beast tribes, definetly more warfare, or more exploration of our own world, the lands we have yet to visit, the instancing of massive chunks of lore, worldbuilding, the massive time bubbles the game has... Hydaelyn is cool man... I also had a slight hope, that the robed child was Unukulhai... Not... Sigh... Why? I thought we were done with 1.0? It was the whole point of the Warriors of Darkness, yet again another recycled concept.

This pretty much sums up how I feel as well. If anyone has played PSO2, you can start seeing the comparisons which worries me because that game literally throws away it's years of lore to pander to anime fans using collabs with other games/media to create content. They've crossed over with anything from Monster Hunter and Nier to even King of Fighters...In a PHANTASY STAR GAME.

What worries me about collabs is that games tend to lose their identity bringing in other franchises. Each FF had it's own thing going on. It created new characters, locales and lore based in it's own world. FFXIV had that but then it began relying too heavily on fanservice.

[Cidel]

Yeah, so far even less impressed with this SB expansion than the last SB.

I'd rather they worked on the races we've already got than adding new ones. I'd take more face options over the viera any day.

Viera are boring and a waste of resources.

Agreed on both counts. When I look at the ones in the preview, I just see Highlander faces on Elezen figures with longer hair options and rabbit ears slapped on. And it's in all likelihood going to be their excuse for not giving more (if any) customization options for the other races yet again.

Gunbreaker falls wholly in the "meh" territory for me. Slapped MCH-esque AF on a gunblade-wielding job, called it a tank, and done.

I'm sure the NieR-inspired alliance raid excites some people, but it's only implying to me that dev team is running dry on their own creativity and is resorting to shoehorning/fanservice, backed-up by their whole 4.0 raid tiers and "new" race.

[Rongway]

It is funny becuase if Gunbreaker focus on mechanics is a Ammo system for their abilities to tank than Machinist players will have a slight experience advantage over other players even those who played Tank Job for a while due to their experience with ammo system to DPS.

It's not just ammo, though. It also doubles as an Aetherflow.

From the GNB slides in the keynote:
"Abilities executed by spending magicked ammunition."