They need to rethink how they do story in 7.0 +

[magitekLuna]

Well once FF16 gets (maybe) released next year, him and all the developers from FF14 that moved over to that project can come back and we can get the same quality of story that ShB brought.

The proem is not the team but yoshi him self. If you remember they dated 6.0 to fix the story and make it work. Think how bad it was originally.

[IkaraGreydancer]

The proem is not the team but yoshi him self. If you remember they dated 6.0 to fix the story and make it work. Think how bad it was originally.

Pretty sure they delayed by 2 weeks to make sure everything was polished storywise. Aso I'll never understand why folks talk as if ShB was far better and had superior pacing. As someone who went through it again with alts in my experience it has worse pacing (still an amazing expac ofc). Remember, you not liking something doesn't automatically make it a mistake

[Amenara]

Pretty sure they delayed by 2 weeks to make sure everything was polished storywise. Aso I'll never understand why folks talk as if ShB was far better and had superior pacing. As someone who went through it again with alts in my experience it has worse pacing (still an amazing expac ofc). Remember, you not liking something doesn't automatically make it a mistake

The pacing was weird to me, I think the most egregious one being going from Zodiark fight and the beginning of the final days to bunny side quests for the next couple hours on the moon. I also think thematically the Final Days felt real for about an hour or two in Thav part 2 and the Garlean duty and that was it. It didn't feel like a threat that was always present, something that we needed to hurry and fix before everyone was killed.

I think Labyrinthos was also very egregious as a filler zone when nothing there felt plot important other than picking a flower that randomly popped up in the story to say "Hey, everyone is happy or Hey everyone is sad" then the flower died. I am not saying Shadowbringers pacing was perfect as there were some definite slogs in Raktika and Ahm Areng part 2, but I always felt like there was a purpose for what was happening and that it had a nice build up with less jerking us around emotionally.