A game for 4 year olds

[aveyond-dreams]

The most controversial expansion have better overall reviews than Shadowbringers or Heavensward. It's acclaimed by both critics and players.


I can understand not liking Endwalker story, but let's not act like it's FFXIV downfall. Endwalker was the end of a saga, we are starting a new one, so it means you won't see continuation of the plot you didn't appreciated in 6.0.
To me FFXIV have always been as it's best when it tells a self contained story like HW or SHB, this is how 7.0 will start when it will introduce it's new plot.

Critics that consequently stopped playing afterwards and likely didn't give the story or its insufferable themes more than the passing glance I gave to the two essays dumped at the bottom of the previous page of this thread, and players that have routinely shut out and censored negative opinions of the game. I'm supposed to put any stock in what they say?

The game is falling apart from content to gameplay to a story that spawned a 700 page thread where it's been torn apart a thousand times over. 7.0 can't come soon enough and good luck to Hiroi, because fixing the wreck that was made of this game's worldbuilding and lore under Ishikawa's tenure will be no easy feat. I do agree that self contained stories are probably the better way to go about this than the cosmic mess Endwalker tried to pull. I just want a region to fall in love and connect with like I did for places like Ferelden, Ishgard, and so on.

For all the attempts to mischaracterize me by some as someone who is impossible to please, I was quite satisfied with this game's story and the way it handled character arcs/growth in Heavensward and Shadowbringers especially. You cannot ask me to let my standards slip when Endwalker delivered a story wherein those elements were handled so poorly, expecting me to root for the Scions as the champions of hope over despair when the suffering was suffered collaterally by everyone around them, with them just making sad faces. This isn't the way things went in 3.0 and 5.0, so I will call it out when people try and defend this nonsense.