Endwalker Story sucked and it's time to admit it

[Rulakir]

I'm honestly not sure how many times and ways "Endwalker sucks!" can be repeated. 8 months isn't long enough to find out, evidently.

The expansion is not even a year old yet and not everyone completed 6.0 in December or even January. Plus, many people have said they initially enjoyed EW, but having gone through it again on an alt or NG+ their impression changed.

I just think it's ridiculous that anyone thinks in a current expansion that criticism and negative feedback is going to stop after a certain period of time. You've got at least another year of it and that's not including anyone who doesn't start playing until after 7.0. EW is simply too divisive to stand the test of time being remembered fondly vs. controversial, it will at the very least be another SB in the library of expansions. Worse, because it was the finale.

This isn't even going into if 7.0 isn't good and more people will start to question why the arc was ended prematurely to usher in a 'lackluster' story.

[Lauront]

The expansion is not even a year old yet and not everyone completed 6.0 in December or even January. Plus, many people have said they initially enjoyed EW, but having gone through it again on an alt or NG+ their impression changed.

I just think it's ridiculous that anyone thinks in a current expansion that criticism and negative feedback is going to stop after a certain period of time. You've got at least another year of it and that's not including anyone who doesn't start playing until after 7.0. EW is simply too divisive to stand the test of time being remembered fondly vs. controversial, it will at the very least be another SB in the library of expansions. Worse, because it was the finale.

This isn't even going into if 7.0 isn't good and more people will start to question why the arc was ended prematurely to usher in a 'lackluster' story.

Indeed - they had a cessation of sales after all and we know from the LB figures a good chunk of the playerbase has yet to clear EW fully. Plus we just had a patch, plus another short story elaborating on the 6.0 story. Is it any wonder that this matter is still being discussed? It's hardly the first to be discussed long after its conclusion, but said "conclusion" isn't even fully done with yet. Seems a trifle disingenuous to complain about people still discussing the matter, much less to attribute it to "echo chambers" - irony abounds, I suppose.

In this very expansion we had an entire zone dedicated to the story of a population struggling with the collapse of their worldview and several horrible truths. Efforts were extended to grant them empathy and assistance at every turn. Some of them, before our eyes, chose self-destruction and death out of despair - this is more direct evidence about a "bad reaction" than Venat ever had in regards to her conviction to bar information about the Final Days and the universe at large from the Ancients, but we didn't decide based on that the Garleans could never change and slaughter them all either.

The Sharlayans as well - after all, the SGE quest deals with a would-be experimenter quite similar to Athena (or a certain someone's faction if we look at it through the lens of forceful 'evolution'), which the Forum does its level best to cover up. Some people hid something, that means it's now fine to hide the circumstances of what might avoid planetary genocide in the sundered world, too!