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

[KizuyaKatogami]

Interviewer: What is the purpose of expanding the options for solo players?

Yoshida: “We want people to be able to play FF14 which has a good reputation as one of the best stories in the Final Fantasy series. That is all.

Shb i could potentially see. Endwalker? In your dreams Yoshi P.

[Sicno]

Interviewer: What is the purpose of expanding the options for solo players?

Yoshida: “We want people to be able to play FF14 which has a good reputation as one of the best stories in the Final Fantasy series. That is all.

Shb i could potentially see. Endwalker? In your dreams Yoshi P.

Well to be the devil's advocate regardless of if we don't agree with the writing direction and think the story falls apart we can't pretend there isn't a lot of people who did love it and went full tears and talked a lot about it online. So he's not really misguided in his notion.

[CrownySuccubus]

Well to be the devil's advocate regardless of if we don't agree with the writing direction and think the story falls apart we can't pretend there isn't a lot of people who did love it and went full tears and talked a lot about it online. So he's not really misguided in his notion.

Yeah, we run the risk of this thread becoming an echo chamber. As I said in a previous post, people who dislike Endwalker's story are still very much a minority.

Even in my case, I think it's fair to say that I liked the story "beats" (chasing Hermes in Ktisis Hyperboreia felt intense, even if I felt the circumstances leading up to it were stupid, and the "Final Walk" was probably one of my favorite moments in gaming ever even if by then, I was skipping past the 10 billionth "Never Give Up" speech and yelling "I GET IT!" at the screen).

This thread just happens to grab the attention of a lot of people with complaints, and that makes it easy to assume that our opinion is the standard one.