I haven't logged in in a while, but 52 pages is kind of compelling. I haven't read everything but I have read most of the thread and I feel other people have explained adequately my frustrations with endwalker but I'll try to sum it up as best as possible.


I used to be okay with endwalker and then made the mistake of looking further into it and the more I do the more disappointed I am with the direction of the story. I still appreciate the really good "high" areas, such as Thavnair (especially the second half) and I'm one who really like the Garlemald section as well. I feel it captured the desperation and bleak future rather well.

I can forgive the awful pacing in certain areas and the bizarre split choice they had between Thavnair and Sharlayan. Shadowbriger's story split made sense and doing one or the other first didn't conflict with the atmosphere as it did with Endwalker. I went Thavnair first so it was awkward to say the least. Watch cat eat burger while this important character is a captive in a tower, that's nice.

I can forgive the loporrits and how they grind the story to a halt every time they're on screen with their very unfunny "funny" antics. Playing dress-up with rabbits while the world burns is not exactly what I wanted, but I guess I can deal with. What I can't understand is Elpis onward.

Elpis introduced a second type of time travel that was already pre-established in the game from the last expansion by the same head writer. Apparently according to someone on the lore forums this messed with the continuity enough to make it to where the time line we are currently in shouldn't exist at all.
Anything and everything in Elpis doesn't matter because time loop. I can state how poor Hermes's and Venat's reasoning are for what they did but it doesn't matter because time loop. Had to be the exact same, time loop. Doesn't matter.
What Venat did was just as terrible as Hermes, we just need one line of her stating it and we are all good. Just one line. No need to dwell on anything like "necessary evils" or anything to keep with the theme no , just skip it. Give us more stupid rabbits.
Give us a spaceship, some anime action scenes, and some magic that definitely won't bring the scions back from something stupid. We also need to neglect those these that the expansion established in the last zone. We can't have the scions disappear and not come back and win everything. We can't have any meaningful sacrifices or consequences. We win all the time because good guys.

All I've learned from this expansion is that it's not a good idea to look deeper into the story. Just look at it at the surface level and be done. I have so many questions with things that were established in the last expansion and I'm not even sure I should bother waiting on them to be answered. I feel the likelihood of all the leftovers will just get hand waved away or just ignored. I really hope Endwalker was just Yoshi P saying, screw it, just do whatever for the second half of the story and it's not what is to be expected onward. Yoshi P wanted people to get emotions from Endwalker. I felt frustrated and disappointed. I don't think that was what he was going for.

Loporrits aren't funny. Stop letting the scions "win" all the time, have some consequences, not everyone actually cares about them anymore. G'raha Tia isn't "cute" to everyone, he's downright creepy to some. Please, please don't do something like Endwalker again. I don't feel more time would have helped, what they needed was a different direction. It just seemed liek they were too caught up in making twists and wowing people for the sake of it.