Warrior of Darkness: Deceptive Marketing?

[hiedra]

Something as big as the WoL becoming a villain or rebelling against Hydaelyn would have been too big of a plot twist to spoil in a trailer so I didn't put too much weight into the wording.

[Rasikko]

What?

You can't blame your audience for having opinions or perceiving your writing the "wrong way". Most of the posts are simply saying "good story but this bit could have been written better". If your viewer or reader doesn't like something, they don't like it and you take that feedback on board.

If the majority of your viewers perceived your writing as something else entirely, it's poor writing.

..but epic destruction of a person who posts a minority opinion usually commences around here.

[Fynlar]

Now that I think about it... the title 'Shadowbringers' is probably a red herring.

I don't think "Shadowbringers" even refers to us, necessarily.

Heavensward sounded all fancy and lofty from a WoL perspective, but it also turned out to be a play on words regarding one of the primary antagonistic forces in the initial story arc.

[SilverObi]

We also have 5 more patches of story to go to see where and if the expansion name comes to fruition or has more layers to it so why is everyone acting like this is all the story we're getting and basing whether it was accurate marketing or not on what amounts to the first chapter? And as for the cinematic, each one that's come with an expansion either glossed over key story points, didn't show them, combined some, and even misrepresented some due to accident (evil Hraesvelgr in HW). We obviously aren't going to turn evil but we still have a lot of story to go so how about we just see what happens before we get cranky?

[Noitems]

You know it's funny I expected Stormblood to be something involving the Maelstrom.

Boy was I in for a shock.

[MikkoAkure]

would rather have them called ffxiv Nightbringer

I like name Shadowbringer I wonder if mean more one bring back night to the world of first. SE sure prove my theory correct that warrior of light is the first world of warrior of darkness as in one who return the night sky to people of the first. through I confuse by next mainline quest promise of valor act of cruelity I confuse who act of cruelity are we talk about ascian I hope we don't see death of scions we lost enough scion please SE

darkness can also mean night

Technically night is the shadow caused by the sun being blocked by the earth so no matter where you go with trying to decipher the title, it’s not wrong.

[Jennah]

I still say Emet-Selch was the Shadowbringer. He brought back all the shadows ("shades", "ghosts") of Amaurot, after all.

He's at least why it's Shadowbringers, with an s.

[Arrius]

All the shadow/darkness stuff relates to The First's idea of darkness, not our own. Anyone who feels decieved hasn't been paying attention.

It didn't help that the trailer featured the Dark Knight be the spotlight job of this expansion, and that he pretty much obliterated a Lightwarden(?) with what it seemed to be darkness/shadow.
Because, ya know, purple color is usually a heavy indication that dark/shadow magic is at play here.

Also, we get to be all purple only once for the sake of matching the trailer more or less. After that, we pretty much deal with radiant bright light and nothing else.

[TheMightyMollusk]

"Shadowbringers" was a very literal title. We bring back the shadows of night to the First. It's plural because we're not alone on the front lines this time.

[Edax]

"Shadowbringers" was a very literal title. We bring back the shadows of night to the First. It's plural because we're not alone on the front lines this time.

But conversely the expansion could have been called "Lightbringers" because the Warrior of Light absorbed a ton of the Light and used it to take down antagonist. The Scions of the Dawn were right with us on the front lines too.