Harassment to Asmongold on his 1st day stream is an Embarassment to FF Community

[VelKallor]

The Jaina storyline from BFA is as good as Shadowbringers, IMO

You have GOT to be kidding me. I played that and it was a sick joke. BFA was, and is, and always has been a dumpster fire. Disjointed story, bad graphics, mission tables, RNG, drip fed "war campaign"..Ive been gaming for decades , BFA was and is deficient in almost every area.

The "invasions" were a copy and paste from Legion, I didnt see ONE original idea or storyline.

The entire BFA premise was absurd, hackneyed, old, done to death,. we'd gone to fight ancients with massive power, and instead of building on that and working forward, they reverted to the faction war that NO ONE believes is worth a stack of beans.

I was Alliance and I remember full well having to go to some weird place, the first dungeon area, no idea where it was, no story on how we got there, no story on how we even knew it existed, to rescue some guy we didnt even know was in the area and to attack and kill NPC's with zero story behind what they were there for. No idea on how I got there, no backstory on any relation to the current campaign, no details as to how whathisface even GOT there to begin with, to say less of what he was doing there.

It was like a jigsaw puzzle with 3/4 of the pieces missing. None of it made a lick of sense...to say NOTHING on how BFA ended..oh wait yeah, I did see an ending like that before, actually.

In Lord of the Rings.

So no, BFA was nowhere near the quality of Shadowbringers and never will be.

[SniperCT]

You have GOT to be kidding me. I played that and it was a sick joke. BFA was, and is, and always has been a dumpster fire. Disjointed story, bad graphics, mission tables, RNG, drip fed "war campaign"..Ive been gaming for decades , BFA was and is deficient in almost every area.

The "invasions" were a copy and paste from Legion, I didnt see ONE original idea or storyline.

The entire BFA premise was absurd, hackneyed, old, done to death,. we'd gone to fight ancients with massive power, and instead of building on that and working forward, they reverted to the faction war that NO ONE believes is worth a stack of beans.

I was Alliance and I remember full well having to go to some weird place, the first dungeon area, no idea where it was, no story on how we got there, no story on how we even knew it existed, to rescue some guy we didnt even know was in the area and to attack and kill NPC's with zero story behind what they were there for. No idea on how I got there, no backstory on any relation to the current campaign, no details as to how whathisface even GOT there to begin with, to say less of what he was doing there.

It was like a jigsaw puzzle with 3/4 of the pieces missing. None of it made a lick of sense...to say NOTHING on how BFA ended..oh wait yeah, I did see an ending like that before, actually.

In Lord of the Rings.

So no, BFA was nowhere near the quality of Shadowbringers and never will be.

You misread

See, I agree, BFA was awful.

Jaina Proudmoore's storyline that you followed after leveling an alliance character up through Kul Tiras was fantastic. Jaina's story. Specifically. That started with that beautiful warbringers cinematic and culminated in her calling the fleet home with that beautiful song.

Rest of the expansion promptly fell flat on it's face.

[VelKallor]

Jaina Proudmoore's storyline that you followed after leveling an alliance character up through Kul Tiras was fantastic. Jaina's story. Specifically. That started with that beautiful warbringers cinematic and culminated in her calling the fleet home with that beautiful song.

I absolutely stand corrected and apologise...you are in fact correct. Mind you the fact the ending was gated behind a damned mythic was..idiotic. it was story content that didnt need to be tied behind a mythic level dungeon ( for my FF 14 brethren thats like tying MSQ behind a mandatory Savage fight ).

Why they did I could never understand..oh of course, their metrics. Make content compulsory and they can point and say how popular it is.
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I quit in BFA as I was..well..more or less disgusted at the potential they tossed off in favour of that idiotic faction war.

BTW does anyone remember anything about a humungous sword stuck in the earth in Silithus? Blizzard did.

its still there. Forgotten. Thrown away, like the Order Halls, the Broken Isles, the massive haul of character storylines and background they made in Legion. I sat there and my only thought was "We just had an epic expac with a TON of potential........and this...this...this PATHETIC GARBAGE is what they come up with?"

UGH.

NO.

Bye Blizzard.

Hello Eorzea.

[Conundrum]

I quit in BFA as I was..well..more or less disgusted at the potential they tossed off in favour of that idiotic faction war.

Exactly the same thing happened with Star Wars The Old Republic. They had a really cool storyline going that had the Empire and Republic working together against the Eternal Empire. The so called fans whined so much for more of "muh empire vs republic" that they ended up cutting that story short without answering most of the mysteries they setup and went back to the same empire vs republic garbage we had already had 6 years of. Then to add insult to injury they brought back a Dr Evil level villain just to please them. I quit and never looked back.

Knights of the Fallen Empire

Knights of the Eternal Throne

[Evergrey]

Exactly the same thing happened with Star Wars The Old Republic. They had a really cool storyline going that had the Empire and Republic working together against the Eternal Empire. The so called fans whined so much for more of "muh empire vs republic" that they ended up cutting that story short without answering most of the mysteries they setup and went back to the same empire vs republic garbage we had already had 6 years of. Then to add insult to injury they brought back a Dr Evil level villain just to please them. I quit and never looked back.

Knights of the Fallen Empire

Knights of the Eternal Throne

Well those games are taken from already existing franchises where the whole premises is factional conflicts.
Taking that away would be like adding to FFXIV where the great companies break up and start fighting one another after the Garlean Empire is brought down, splitting the community in 3 factions.
Turning 180 degrees in a story with a set premises is a very risky thing and could end up with the playerbase who play the games because of the backstory to leave.

But this is the wonderful thing with all the choices of games out there on the market.
If one doesn't like faction war there are plenty of other choices to pick from and vice versa.
In the end it all boils down to personal preferences of what one is looking for.