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

[Theodric]

It's not enough to make me completely lose faith in the writers like some other people seem to have, though.

Well, I don't want to speak for anybody else but I've personally been raising an eyebrow in response to some of the story decisions for a while now. As far back as Stormblood.

Perhaps it would be easier to stomach and overlook if FFXIV had more going for it in general, though as it stands it decided to make the bulk of its focus shifted towards the MSQ's.

[Teraq]

Well, I don't want to speak for anybody else

Good point; I don't want to look like I'm speaking for every other Ascian fan by rollin and hatin on just about everything in EW that wasn't atmospheric post-Soviet depression. I do know there are probably loads of others who liked it, otherwise I wouldn't have felt so despondent and isolated after finishing EW and browsing through social media.

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Okay so I think I ... kind of see Capricorn in the absolutely-not-lion mask. The lion's eyes would be the horns much like Mitron's, and its snout and nose the overall shape of a goat's head with the goatee.

I suppose thinking it would have tied into one of the main villains of EW, that we coincidentally first saw in Garlemald where Gaius might have operated before meeting him in the Burn, was... too much common sense. It's the one Ascian we knew literally nothing about (and still don't, not even from Elpis!) instead. Consider my expectations well and truly subverted again!

[Theodric]

Good point; I don't want to look like I'm speaking for every other Ascian fan by rollin and hatin on just about everything in EW that wasn't atmospheric post-Soviet depression. I do know there are probably loads of others who liked it, otherwise I wouldn't have felt so despondent and isolated after finishing EW and browsing through social media.

You're definitely not alone. I've spoken with a decent amount of people with similar opinions.

I also don't think it helped the game to quietly shuffle so many key developers over to FFXVI. It could very well be the cause of so many mixed messages being sent. I was confused by the announcement that someone else had taken over from Koji in regards to the English localisation back in ShB.