What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Jybril]

Remember, we do pay for this game. As such we deserve a certain level of quality. If this thread is anything to go by, the EW storyline is not the level of quality of older expansions.

I would call SHB the climax and then you go to EW which is more of the resolution so you're just settling down for the end.

Kinda hard to top of SHB imho, it even made gaming news on how great it was.
I don't I seen that much overall super praise from EW. It was just overall "okay".
Not evey story is gonna hit the homerun though.

[gumas]

I would call SHB the climax and then you go to EW which is more of the resolution so you're just settling down for the end.

kinda feel for this too, SHB is like our "omg it so good" moment, and EW is like the "closure" of it, yeah it still end of the world thingy but its more like the story to close the chapter 1 a.k.a the eorzea saga for me.

and not helping the usual syndrome where we got high treatment with SHB so our expectation was high when we go EW. for their defense if they put EW first then end with SHB, i would probably say the same thing too but with EW and SHB switch their role.

we already got our "cake" served in gold plate, so when another "cake in gold plate" serve to us again, we dont feel that "hype" anymore.