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

[YukikoKurosawa]

They're thankfully being designed in such a way as to not really appeal to the 'Second Life' and 'Twitter Enthusiasts' that this game has unfortunately come to attract in droves.

You might have said this part in half-jest, but browsing twitter lately I've seen a shocking number of peope who quite literally mod their characters to look exactly like Second Life character models. Don't even want to imagine what these people actually do ingame.

But this is what the devs see when they look at FF twitter. Mayhap it explains the increased amount of modern-style clothing glams being put onto the mog station of late. They've realized the audience they've attracted and are banking off of it.

[Raoabolic]

You might have said this part in half-jest, but browsing twitter lately I've seen a shocking number of peope who quite literally mod their characters to look exactly like Second Life character models. Don't even want to imagine what these people actually do ingame.

You don't want to know. All I have to say is Miss Triss was a mistake and each day we stray further and further from the crystal.

[YukikoKurosawa]

Miss Triss

Whomst? Some mod creator or something?

[Theodric]

You might have said this part in half-jest, but browsing twitter lately I've seen a shocking number of peope who quite literally mod their characters to look exactly like Second Life character models. Don't even want to imagine what these people actually do ingame.

But this is what the devs see when they look at FF twitter. Mayhap it explains the increased amount of modern-style clothing glams being put onto the mog station of late. They've realized the audience they've attracted and are banking off of it.

Sadly it wasn't a jest! It's definitely one of the things that made the game world feel less interesting and magical to me. I think there's plenty of ways for the development team to make money off of players without necessarily compromising the established tone and aesthetics of the setting itself.

It's reached the point where I wish there was a filter to just sort of block out other players in cutscenes and stuff.

[YukikoKurosawa]

It's reached the point where I wish there was a filter to just sort of block out other players in cutscenes and stuff.

Can't filter out other players in trial cutscenes where the player is summoning other players who show up wearing clownsuits and ERP outfits to aid them for a serious climactic battle, sadly.

[Theodric]

Can't filter out other players in trial cutscenes where the player is summoning other players who show up wearing clownsuits and ERP outfits to aid them for a serious climactic battle, sadly.

They could probably add a toggle that allows 'immersive' generic NPC's to appear instead but honestly that seems like a waste of time in the era of 'you guys really care about the story, huh' in a game actively advertised for...its story.

[Raoabolic]

They could probably add a toggle that allows 'immersive' generic NPC's to appear instead but honestly that seems like a waste of time in the era of 'you guys really care about the story, huh' in a game actively advertised for...its story.

To be fair, Twilight and Dragon Age 2 was advertised for it's story as well. Advertisers and businessmen really do run the show, don't they? lol