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

[AnaviAnael]

Man, I sure do love it when they decide to "subvert expectations!" It always has an interesting result.

I remember back when they subverted all of our expectations so much back in 2019 when they surprised the anime-loving playerbase of FFXIV with Hrothgar instead of the male Viera people were expecting and the JP fanfest crowd proceeded to actually boo the trailer. Similarly, they strongly teased the moon only for us to get no more than a half-hour with Zodiark who people have wanted to see since forever and instead made it into a Looney Toons cartoon with the loporrits.

Can we pretty please return to the Heavensward era back when twists actually paid off in the end and characters were actually believable? Or is Heavensward too simple of a story? Because fighting dragons sure sounds a lot more appealing than another war of morals right about now.

Star Wars subverted expectations by killing Snoak in The Rise of Skywalker. Fans hated it.
Game of Thrones subverted expectations by having Arya kill the Night King instead of Jon Snow. Fans hated it.
FFXIV did what was mentioned above.

Are we noticing a pattern?

[Floortank]

Star Wars subverted expectations by killing Snoak in The Rise of Skywalker. Fans hated it.
Game of Thrones subverted expectations by having Arya kill the Night King instead of Jon Snow. Fans hated it.
FFXIV did what was mentioned above.

Are we noticing a pattern?

Yeah, that you haven't read any books.