Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
I think the biggest issue was that this expansion was effectively two in one to get the storyline over and done with.
I blame the Tempest and Shadowbringers as a whole.

I remember an interview before ShB where Yoshi-P joked about the players wondering if he revealed too much of the story all at once. Then in a more recent interview he said he realized he revealed too much of the story already and there was only 20% left and after the "player reception of Shadowbringers", whatever that means, he decided to end it in one expansion.

While a lot of Endwalker was definitely rushed and more than a few things had quick explanations that didn't make sense, a part of me is glad that we didn't get Stormblood 2.0. The potential 1 of 2 future expansions would have just been another Garlean war one that probably wouldn't have been different enough from Stormblood, Werlyt, and Bozja to justify concentrating on just that for a whole 2 years or whatever the launch cycle is now. The whole idea to pause the run up to the climax of the Garlean arc that Stormblood was leading to in order to have adventures on the First is as silly to me now as it was back then. While Shadowbringers was a really good expansion, having it in the middle of everything going on and then getting all that exposition at the end threw a wrench in the story pacing.