A game for 4 year olds

[aveyond-dreams]

I’m sorry the classic trope of the power of the heart/hope/friendship overcoming adversity is too carebear for some people. I like it well enough, though. At least so far. Saying FF14’s world is “in shambles” is just melodramatic. lol

Well I suppose I could've used any number of words, others like boring, non-compelling, and uninteresting come to mind when it comes to the state of the world after Endwalker's MSQ.

Most of the nations of the world are holding hands singing kumbaya together after having their unique political systems homogenized into cookie cutter democracies.

The world's main empire lies in ruins with no hope of resurgence as a faction worth my time under the current writing direction, which is intent on turning it into yet another cookie cutter democracy instead of sparing a single member of the royal family to carry them into the future like an Ashe or Larsa character.

Yoshi choosing to wrap up Ivalice in field notes instead of continuing to deliver content related to that universe because the same sort that are enthralled by the cafe of hopes and dreams apparently couldn't tolerate a war story.

Both major deities are dead with none arising to inherit their wills like they did in the Dissidia universe.

This game's afterlife lore is unironically worse than WoW's Shadowlands. Here everyone just melts into the Lifestream as an endless reset button. At least in WoW's universe some people face accountability for their actions after they die.

The First, which was about as high fantasy as this game has ever gotten, did not undergo the originally planned partial rejoining and is still locked in another plane.

The remaining Ascians are dead, or Yoshi has so little interest in them that he has no plans to dedicate anymore storytelling to them.

The Void's inhabitants are about as scary as the pixies from the Persona games, instead of being something that can be taken seriously or induce any sort of fear.

Much as I like the look of Troia Castle and the aesthetics of the Void, there's nothing stopping the Source from having similar traditional high fantasy locations - except oh wait the Source is utterly devoid of such elements for no reason at all.

The world of FFXIV isn't worth spending time in or caring about in its current state. The only way to save it now is to drop another moon on it, rip open Voidgates everywhere and let demons have the run of the place or something similar. We don't have an RPG world anymore, we have Yoshi's playground, and I'm not interested in sitting around playing tea party with the terminator robots and rabbits. A game with no identity, one that I can no longer recommend to anyone with a straight face.