Why heavensward story is considered a better one then stormblood ?

[Atelier-Bagur]

Honestly, when I compare the stories what I didn't like about the story was it was all over the place. You had to jump from one part of the world and then head to another part and it was a lot of back and forth. I did not have that issue with Heavenward. Yeah, it jumped around here and there, but travel was not as bad. I think Stormblood was made for the weebs and weebs really help. I just remember there was a whole lot of problems people had with Stormblood. If you were on this board during that time and of the hardcore minority stormblood was great.

Between the story and making the game harder it rubbed people the wrong way. I think it's annoying one Stormblood main city still does not have an airship landing even though thankfully the eastern city finally got one.

What a gross exaggeration. You werent jumping around back and forth between the two conflicts. Want me to outline this for you?

Start - Try to liberate Ala Mhigo. It failed
Middle - Divide Imperial forces by liberating Doma. It succeeded
End- Resistance Redemption where we try to liberate Ala Mhigo again. It succeeded.

So yeah, Im not seeing where this "constant back and forth repeatedly" issue people seem to have lies exactly in SB. I heard the same complaints from a friend who told me this exact thing and here I was expecting oh we would be awkwardly traveling between the two nations solving their issues and its an unfocused mess, but no, the entirety of the Far East section is a one and done deal in the main msq. Now what I do have issues is that the story itself was very ambitious and I wouldve personally preferred they dedicated an expansion for Gyr Abania and another for the Far East so we could get some more world lore like how we got with Coerthas and Ishgard in Heavensward.