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

[aveyond-dreams]

On that note, was anyone else disappointed by how normal Sharlayan ended up being? Every time we've interacted with anything Sharlayan outside of Endwalker it has always had sinister vibes to it. Eureka. The abandoned colony. The assassination squads sent to kill anyone sharing state secrets. It's a real shame it was simply reduced to a Disney style city of magic with no real grit. I also didn't like how the Scions had no reaction to the 'evacuation plan' picking and choosing which races were acceptable to take on board.

It's also annoying that it wasn't the Garleans who pieced together a spaceship given how that's...very much their sort of thing.

As an aside, do you have a source for that scene being expensive? It'd be good to dismantle the arguments that there's no wasteful spending.

Sharlayan as a place to afk and chill in is nice, the actual story I endured there was not. Given that it is home to the single-worst chain of filler MSQ quests, it was by far the weakest parts of Endwalker besides the Loporrit section of the Moon. There were so many problems with the way things went down over there, especially considering the stoic nature of our homogenous cast who couldn't give a human reaction when it was very clearly implied if not outright stated that the Garleans were going to be left behind.

The source for the interview was a translated one posted to the FFXIV reddit discord, but screenshotting it directly has proved a hassle. The translation was posted on January 9th, searching Estinien brought it up hidden behind spoiler text.