Quote Originally Posted by Xeronia View Post
Honestly it just feels like I am playing the expansion Trial series as the MSQ. That isn't to say trial series are bad as I loved most of them just the pacing isn't really MSQ levels but more in line with how trial series have done their pacing previously. It just feels really off for the MSQ to me when it comes to Zero's character development and it feeling like it was speed ran.
Can definitely relate. I do miss the days in previous expansions when the Trial series was its own questline...instead I'm supposed to be excited for Tataru - from what I understand - dressing the 4 lords in chicken outfits because haha funneh? Endwalker is more a bad sitcom than an RPG at this point. Can't imagine another expansion worth of this style of writing with levity and bottom of the barrel humour galore. Mind you, this is before the Loporrit beast tribe quests drop but by the time they do my sub will have long since run out and I'll be playing Hogwarts Legacy.

Also glad to know that this game is so rich in story and content to discuss and play through that FFXIV youtubers have resorted to using my threads for videos. I suppose I should welcome the attention, nevertheless I stand by pretty much everything I've said and can only hope that the only way forward from here is up. Unfortunately me thinking that back in 6.2 did not save 6.3 from being as underwhelming as it was. I'd really like it if the game would go back to cutting out the busywork and delivering more entertaining patch stories like it did in previous expansions instead of the state of things being excused as ok "because it's filler."

Do not waste my time like this MSQ did, shouldn't decent writers strive for better?