Please don't harass people for ignoring/disliking the story

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

and still wondering why people don’t bother engaging in drawn out back and forths with them.

Who the heck asked?
We were doing just fine talking amongst ourselves while you hid.

These writers need to rebuild their image and make it quick if they ever want to be taken seriously by players like myself again, 6.2’s msq was a step in that direction but my confidence is too shaken to place any further trust in them.

Oh no, the mighty and always right Aveyond has to be catered to or the game will die.

Never minding Aveyond's childish vision of the future of the game, I am excited for whats coming.
The Hippo Riders Tribal Quest, the Myths of the Realm Alliance Raid Series, and the Pandemonium 8-man Raid Series have all been great. The Hildibrand Storyline Finally continuing is fantastic to see. And even though its a rough slow start.....afterall we are building up to our next adventure, Im quite intrigued to see where the MSQ story is going, and what this Big Event might be that YoshiP mentioned.
The New Crit Dungeons have me curious, cant wait to try them out and see if it will create the Legendary Mythic+ Toxicity
Doomsayers will be Doomsayers, and not everyone can be pleased and will have different taste. But I think this game always comes through in the end and always does something exciting to keep people invested.

Ill trust in the devs.

[hagare]

The Hildibrand Storyline Finally continuing is fantastic to see.

I'm just happy they let us be the crazy one for once

Not to mention the game literally has holograms and holographic technology Ala the Allagans.

let's not forget a space ship to go to space with

[SturmChurro]

By catering to twitter players who by now are probably now knee-deep in Disney Dreamlight Valley instead of staying in FFXIV.

I didn't even know that game existed! I'll have to wishlist that. I like all the outfits and stuff.

[Deveryn]

Old Sharlayan and Garlemald definitely aren't Medieval. They are way more Modernized and have technical advancements.

They have their own pizza!!!

[SturmChurro]

I never thought it'd outright DIE (Hells, just look to World of Warcraft even today), but it's difficult to deny it's mooning the crowd with its ever more obvious rust on the near daily. Be it here, or on Reddit (maybe not Twitter, but I don't go there) more and more threads are popping up criticizing Endwalker/6.1-6.2/2022 FFXIV/what have you and its various aspects on social media. I'm choosing to believe that's indicative of something. As to whether or not that'll spur Yoshi-P and Creative Dev Team III to amend the more egregious of the game's drawbacks, well who can say really? I only know where my bets are being placed, and by now with my tenure on this forum I'm rather sure everyone else does too.

I rather think ShB was more the start of it, but Shb had a relatively well written story (although, it compromised the overall narrative), and was well received. We started to see quite a bit of compromise starting there I think. I've said it before, but Endwalker's narrative suffers, in my opinion, because it's two stories smashed into one; it felt like they were rushing to conclude the story arc. Each expansion has these 'slice of life' elements, but due to the pacing of the expansion they felt out of place to many. That isn't to mention how many players are fatigued by the overwhelming amount of fan service in regards to certain characters.

[SannaR]

They have their own pizza!!!

We even had a recent food eating scene with said pizza. Course it was in Thavnir. At least I want to say there was pizza in the 6.2 scene. I remember being angry for whatever reason that it was in that scene cause it wasn't on the WoL's side of the table. I'm surprised that it seems Varshahn isn't more akin to Meteion in that he's able to take in food. Considering that the body I'm assuming is lifeless whenever Vrtra's eye isn't inhabiting it. I guess they'd make it capable to do so in order to help sell the lie? Which I mean does that mean the body gets more energy from the food or does the food eaten somehow transfer over to Vrtra and how come there have been no rumors that the Saltrap eats a lot of food for one person. You know before everyone found out about Vrtra. We know dragons eat. I might be thinking too deeply about this. @.@;;

[hagare]

We know dragons eat.

we do?
But what?

[Rannie]

we do?
But what?

Humans... remember don't anger a dragon for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup =P

[Boblawblah]

we do?
But what?

[Reimmi]

Neat? Skip away I guess? Seems like a waste when story is like 80% of the game, but whatever.

Some people play for the gameplay first story second
nothing wrong with that