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

[Cilia]

Have you considered for a moment that it is people like you who make those who are dissatisfied borderline scared of voicing their opinion? Because whenever even the slightest, tiniest bit of criticism is offered, people like you crawl out of the woodwork and start screaming about "HOW DARE! EVERYONE LOVES IT! YOU ARE WRONG!!1".
And then people like you and your amigos who cannot accept different opinions come into this thread, start screaming the same thing and insist that you are right.

Yes, this is exactly what happens here - those who are feverishly obsessed with the game insisting that it can do no wrong and that their opinion is the ultimate pinnacle of objectiveness just trample over those who dare to voice criticism. Scream them into the ground until they are too scared to say anything.

Then once something goes horribly wrong with the game you will also be the first ones to start whining "Why did nobody ever say anything?!".

I don't see anyone dissatisfied holding their tongues here, and from the sounds of it you're more interested in having other people validate your opinions on the subject than actually discussing them. Point of fact it seems to me the people who are satisfied with Endwalker and do enjoy its story and characters are the ones being shouted into silence, on this forum if nothing else.

If you want the official forums to be an Endwalker hate echo chamber... I mean... I guess that's fine, so long as you recognize it for what it is. But it's an open forum, and people with dissenting opinions are free to voice that. Criticize all you like - different strokes for different folks - but please don't insult, belittle, or attack people who contest your assertions. Respectfully.

[DevonEllwood]

If you want the official forums to be an Endwalker hate echo chamber... I mean... I guess that's fine, so long as you recognize it for what it is.

Even if it is, would it matter? The forums are also a housing hate echo chamber. It's a healing one-button-rotation hate echo chamber. If a thread on the forums has to become an echo chamber to give these people solace or get a point across, then I don't have a problem with it.

I saw a thread wanting more effort from people. I go to discussion subreddit and someone was explaining that one of their friends won't stop healing on red mage to "help" the healers. The subreddit is known to be more critical than the other ones, but even the response is "it's not savage, don't worry about it". Anywhere off the forums and being critical with anything about the game will usually result a vast majority of people defending the game.

There's also the fact that a lot of criticism about the game is initially labeled as trolling. Even a well known streamer took a look at this thread's title and called it trolling. It kind of sucks. It sucks the housing situation seems to have no end. It sucks that healers are no longer multi tasking and are reduced to spamming one button for 80% of the encounter. It sucks that hrothgar waited patiently for new hairstyles only to be given the option to turn into earrless Karens years later. The developers can do better. I feel the writers can do better than what we got in Endwalker.