Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
I also get the impression that Endwalker was trying to recapture what made Shadowbringers successful without really understanding what gave it the 'soul' for lack of a better term.(...)
I have a feeling SE never knew exactly what good they did. They feel completely lost to me, disconnected from their players, to the point that every part of this expansion is very superfluous. The impression it gives me is exactly this: "we are going to try to repeat our success, but what did we do to have that success?"

And now they start pushing nostalgia, I still wonder what was the reason for the appearance of the Magus Sisters, as they are there or not is completely insignificant. I'm feeling the same impression from these new characters (Golbez, and company). Seriously I've never played other FFs before, and the feeling I have is that if you exchange Magus Sisters, Golbez, the 4 talking chairs, for completely new characters, it kind of doesn't matter, so if it's meant to be like this, why pull old characters if not for the simple reason of appealing to nostalgia and begging for that to be enough?