Review of 6.3 Story Content

[SassyAssassin]

[AwesomeJr44]

There are no "white knights"

[VelKallor]

Thasco: I concede the point. Agreed.

They don’t owe us ANYTHING. The sub for this game is cheaper than Netflix. Yoshida pours his blood, sweat and tears into this game and we pay pennies in exchange. I think we should be grateful that we’re getting anything at all. This isn’t Blizzard that we’re talking about here, this is Square Enix. They’re doing what they can with the small amount of resources that they have

Only I never said this.

I agree with it, I think FF 14 is wonderful and have enjoyed myself immensely,. I think FF 14 is a labour of love and they have worked damned hard to get it to where it is now...I think people like you will dunk on it just to be negative, or to be wannabe edgelords.

I appreciate all they have done, have never said the game is perfect ( Ive said the opposite in fact ), but to all intents and purposes, it stands heads and tails above a lot of the thousands of games Ive played over the last three decades..I have seen some stinkers, trust me, Club Dead. Descent to Undermountain, two or three of the Leisure Suit Larry games, some horrible indie games...so, thats my take.

If you dont like it, thats too bad...but as far as I am concerned, FF 14 is one of the best I have played in a very long time.

[R041]

There are no "white knights", only jaded cynics

[Midareyukki]

I am telling it like it is, mate, I love the game , the story and think they have done a hell of a job. There are no "white knights", only jaded cynics like you who cant handle others who like what you dont.

[NanaWiloh]

Jaded cynics and white knights need friends so let's put shelter and thin skinned people in there with them.

[VelKallor]

I prefer "blind" to the overwhelming negativity I see here every day.

[KageTokage]

I think there's one major point everyone's overlooking.

This is a filler arc. It's not meant to be 'life-changing philosophical storytelling' like Endwalker was, or a 'flawlessly written post-apocalyptic isekai' like Shadowbringers. It's basically "Hey, we need a short story involving an established threat, to lead into the next major story arc. I know, let's do an FF4-inspired story that deals with the voidsent, they've been quiet for a while".

Safety spoilers

I get that it's a filler arc, but I still feel like there's been a decided lack of intrigue/suspense with how little information they've been willing to disclose about Golbez's motivations, and despite it being a grand total of three patches into this story arc, the sole thing of major significance we've seen him do was having Rubicante break the void gate.

It's impossible to parse how he intends to carry out this grand scheme of his aside from it involving the moon and maybe Azdaja somehow, and that has me inherently feeling rather disinterested.

[Necrotica]

I think there's one major point everyone's overlooking.

This is a filler arc. It's not meant to be 'life-changing philosophical storytelling' like Endwalker was, or a 'flawlessly written post-apocalyptic isekai' like Shadowbringers. It's basically "Hey, we need a short story involving an established threat, to lead into the next major story arc. I know, let's do an FF4-inspired story that deals with the voidsent, they've been quiet for a while".

Wish it was more filling then. Cause these bread crumbs of plot advancement are wearing thin. And YES I understand that the whole point of post Endsinger was for the plot to take a breath. And I can appreciate that. Having lower stakes for once is nice. No one cares if we save the 13th or not so we don't have to feel the crushing weight of all existence relying on us. It is legitimately nice to have a mission where we are doing it cause why not? We're bored. This place looks interesting and fun monsters to kill.

But we are big badless. We have no sense of what is coming next. And if we have nothing to look forward to we tend to look really really hard at what we are doing now and seeing its flaws more and more.

[Raven2014]

Thankfully I haven't played EW for story since 6.0 >_>

Me neither. I see the story as a treat once every 3 years, other times I just play 'cause of the content.

Oh and BTW, feel sorry for the OP who obviously has a bone to pick with Y'shtola. Consider her "promise" with Rin, she's more then likely gonna be around for a long long long time.