Unpopular Opinions: 5.0 Edition

[Hazmick]

I have no doubt that the Nier raid series will be fantastic, but I agree with everyone who asks for more original FFXIV content. More unique characters, more unique storylines, more unique everything. I want to be excited by the actual content, and not by the thing it's referencing from a different game/series.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

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...

Other shards i get it. But those other shards are still hydaelyn. We are just the core shard.

For that to happen, 4.5 would have to:

Solve Unukalhai - Alpha Serpentarius/Zodiark maybe, or heavily zodiark related. Yeah, everyone has forgotten we have an Ascian with a name that means "Alpha Serpent" right next to us.
--------------------> Bring back Hydrus in any way shape or form, honestly i belive him is the only one who was able to protect or steer the emperor, his lost was not only a narrative mess and waste but ill not dig too deep.
Solve Zenos - Yeah. Not happening.
Solve the whole imperial War - If that is not the main scenario of 5.0, it has to be done in 4.5b and honestly, from both the trailers and zones so far shown, we are nowhere near going into garlemald, so we are basically taking another "break" from this.
The whole dialog of Y'shtola/Matoya sounds like the start of a training arc... "Till our friend returns i will hold them". Is she somehow use imba archon/matoya OP powers to hold against the imperials/light overflow while we go somewhere else? To find something?
Also, minfilia is back, and she shouldn't, the whole point of the warrior's of darkness and her becoming hydaelyn's avatar and helping the WoD in their source world is an allegory to saving 1.0 and then letting go... I honestly always thought the white robbed child was Unukalhai.

Yeah, we are going into a training expansion, to delay the confrontation even further, another expansion wasted into silly unrewarding side stories(anything ala mhigo "revolution" related), unnecessary character leads (lyse), unnecessary region additions that tease more content and divert the storyline from moving forwards rather than help it out (all othard related things)... Nah, let open every single thread, we might possibly need it in some future if things go nowhere... Which is honestly 4.0 till 4.5, where finally things started to flow again... And now we cut to some inconsequential sidequesting and more franchises pandering, fan servicing and marketing...

[MagiusNecros]

Viera are bland and uninspired, new tank class is not needed since they can't balance the ones they have already, and the game is becoming more fanservicey then ever and is lacking in original content. Plus with the way they handled BLU I wager Gunbreaker or Squall Leonhart the Job Class will be met with extreme scrutiny.

[Beckett]

Honestly the more unpopular opinion right now seems to be that I'm looking forward to the new 24-man raid, and I'm 100% okay with it not being FF-based.

[MagiusNecros]

Honestly the more unpopular opinion right now seems to be that I'm looking forward to the new 24-man raid, and I'm 100% okay with it not being FF-based.

The raid is probably the only good thing about the expansion. >_>

Even if only for the music alone.

[Auryan]

Geez...a lot of negativity in this thread. Yet the constant whining isn't keeping me down.
Since it does seem like a minority opinion, I can't wait to see how Yoko Taro manages to bring Nier to XIV (or is it vice versa? /shrug). And from watching the extended scenes, it turns out that I kind of miss Minfilia and hope she gets a prominent role in the MSQ.

[DashingDanny]

Geez...a lot of negativity in this thread. Yet the constant whining isn't keeping me down.
Since it does seem like a minority opinion, I can't wait to see how Yoko Taro manages to bring Nier to XIV (or is it vice versa? /shrug). And from watching the extended scenes, it turns out that I kind of miss Minfilia and hope she gets a prominent role in the MSQ.

Claiming there is negativity here is a good unpopular opinion.


Sylphs were the worst beast tribe to date and I wanna do quests for the Pixies completely in spite of them.

[Auryan]

Claiming there is negativity here is a good unpopular opinion.


Sylphs were the worst beast tribe to date and I wanna do quests for the Pixies completely in spite of them.

Hmm. Looks like this thread is a winner then. And nah, the Kobolds were the worst. At least the Sylphs had the crazy chocobo guy that was sorta entertaining.

[Renato]

Honestly the more unpopular opinion right now seems to be that I'm looking forward to the new 24-man raid, and I'm 100% okay with it not being FF-based.

Not really. The FFXIV reddit has over 600+ comments about the Nier Raid. Most seem to be fairly positive and the negative comments or people who don't want anything to do with it have gotten downvoted.

I started a FB thread in a FFXIV group and a large majority of people seem to want it as well. I didn't know that this was something people had been asking for.

[Rokke]

Im kinda torn. NieR is great and the story/world/characters are great and I've wanted a crossover event since I played through the game…but thas an expansion’s worth of 24 man raids dedicated to a non ff game. It would have been weird if we got a GARO or MHW batch of alliance raids.