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

[Ixon]

Translated Famitsu interview with Yoshida, Ishikawa, and Oda on the development of Endwalker's story. Plans to release a EW-related side story confirmed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._with_yoshida/

[aveyond-dreams]

Translated Famitsu interview with Yoshida, Ishikawa, and Oda on the development of Endwalker's story. Plans to release a EW-related side story confirmed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._with_yoshida/

We lost a Garlemald expansion to this? Seriously?

[PawPaw]

Translated Famitsu interview with Yoshida, Ishikawa, and Oda on the development of Endwalker's story. Plans to release a EW-related side story confirmed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._with_yoshida/

My takeaway is that the FFXIV team had no idea what they were doing with their story until ShB, and it shows. Makes tons of sense and now I can stop listening to people gushing about how "they've been planning this for a decade".

[Skyborne]

Introducing suffering and killing millions is a good thing rather than slowly improving society somewhat, actually, if you have an attitude I dislike. It's for your own good, because you might get bored and off yourselves in the distant farflung future. Our heroes...

I'd like to think that they are trying to not offend Hermes fans, but it's kind of hard to tell. Never seen any other game where the 'ancient race died out' trope was used to elevate the player characters so hard. Ultimately a race of punching bags to vindicate the playerbase and make their egoes swell with 'superiority'. It did work, though, overwhelmingly.

Also, Anima going from being a final boss to a dungeon boss. ohnonoonnoahhahahhaha

[BaconBits]

Varis died just to be a dungeon boss instead of the penultimate boss of a potential Garlean themed expac.

This some bs.