It was certainly a genius move to chase out Matsuno while allowing several individuals who aren’t worth naming to fail upwards into positions of power - only for the writing in all aspects of the game to suffer as a result. If I had to choose between the current state of affairs and the way things used to be, my choice is obvious.

This no longer feels like a Final Fantasy game. It feels like a piece of fanfiction that went completely off the rails. Again, people need to play better games and wake up to the fact that the current trajectory of FFXIV’s storytelling needs to improve. But then again what can I expect from certain people who complained of having to step away from their computers after reading the Hermes short story or who to this day still cry about people being experimented on in Bozja.

But I suppose Hildibrand and the current Valentione event quest text is enough to satiate them. Not so for me.