Endwalker was a great mess(SPOILERS)

[LitheSuxman]

I think OP doesn't understand the the story at all.

[crimsonwitch]

I think OP doesn't understand the the story at all.

How can you deduce that? I don't understand your comment. Without a reply, i'm assuming you just mad i'm dogging on the expansion a bit.
The story was pretty obvious. Hermes posed a question that led an artificially created being to believe in nihilism. There wasn't that much to understand

[Atieno]

Ive been playing for years, loved ShB and frankly imho the OP is not wrong. I understood the story as its frankly not that complex but the story was jarring. The first couple of zones was grand but then we suddenly got bunnies in space, which was just tiring and frankly pointless. Also literally everything in the last zone was nonsense. All of them just randomly committing suicide without a care in the world. Like thancred legit dead and all except Uri were like "than-who?".

Also EW dragged... so many cut scenes and laborious needless narrative arcs that felt bitty, as we popped all over the place with barely any cohesive flow or structure.

Anyone who cant see that EW had major issues and that the the last zone of EW in particular had terrible narrative problems, awful emotional pacing and a completely missed tone is willfully ignoring it or stubbornly fanboi-ing because its square and they must protect FFXIV at all costs from the evil critique of gamers.

Im saying all of this as a player who has played since 2.0 and genuinely has gushed about how amazing ShB was and how it pushed the envelope on MMO's. EW is a let down, pure and simple. It's not as poor as some of the SB or ARR content, but to come from ShB to EW, is a marked step down in quality.