A game for 2 year olds.

[Thenightvortex]

Spoilers incoming:

This game really doesn’t want to get any better, does it? Endwalker is full of flanderized and comedic content of low quality(just think back to Myths of the Realm in 6.3 and the obnoxious femroe), and it seems that the devs are eager to double down with each new patch. The peak of this type of content must be the loporrits, which managed to become old before their tribal quests that have been released today. Wasting an entire zone of their cheap antics and repeated bland carrot jokes, looking over their incompetence and tarnishing the atmosphere wasn’t enough, they had to partake in second part of Labyrinthos, have a few scenes in Garlemald , take part in the Hildibrand questline, the Omega: Beyond the rift quests, one of them plays a major role in the Omicron quests…They were all over the place.

Now we’ve come to their tribal quests and after thorough examination on garland tools database I see that this is more of the same. A questline that will enforce such hilarious jokes as “carrots, carrots, and more carrots” and suggesting to the Warrior of Light that they should rename themselves to “craftingway”. Thankfully, the dreaded Puddingway did not have a major role as it seems even the writers have some limit to the cringe they insert into their quests.

Their attempt to tell a touching story with the loporrit who feels lost due to never being able to fulfill his purpose as a councilor to people of the star is rushed and culminates in the most bland ending possible, sending a ‘feel good’ message about how loporrits were lost and sad because of their lost purpose, but now they dared to dream again and that they want people of the star to know that they are not alone. Yet it becomes rather stupid with the reactions that are presented by the next quest.

This is the the councilor loporrit in question talking, except the quoted parts

“Ah, well met! Can I help you with anything this evening?
For me? From persons of Etheirys? Oh, I hope I didn't say something to offend them...
The first is from a Garlean refugee... “I miss my homeland dearly, but your voice reminded me that even here, I'm not alone. Thank you for lifting my spirits.”
And this one appears to have been written by a child's paw...
(-Child's Letter-)Dear Radio Loppit,
How did you learn to talk like people? You are very good. I want to be a radio when I grow up too!
Love, Me
...They really are listening.”

That a garlean refugee would react in such a way seems played up, the tragedy their suffered is incomparable with loporrits and there is no way such empty message about dreams and hopes would have any effects on the people whose entire homeland and most of their race has been annihilated. It’s like comparing one person breaking a nail to another one seeing their entire family murdered before them. SE continues to apply kids’ book logic to stories that are supposedly serious.

Speaking of other elements, what’s up with the relic quests? People have complained about how lackluster it is in terms of gameplay, but I’m blinking at how cheap it is in terms of story and lore compared to any other relic chain. It’s just one silly scene of Godbert and Gerolt in Radz, no development, nothing interesting whatsoever, just dumb gags and bam, there’s your weapon. Whatever this is, it seems that either SE had scrapped their initial plans for the relic quest chain and replaced it with this filler crutch and tied it to Hildibrand quests so it has any story and lore relevance at all. An absolute disgrace

The last thing I will touch on is the absolute cringe fest that was the Tweetingway day yesterday. The culmination of “Omg so randum” humor, cringe renditions of the songs, played up excitement, and pretending to be “cutesy”. This is something children in kindergarten would enjoy and even so I doubt about that. Defenders of such displays like to accuse the protesters of having no sense of humor, but I am more inclined to believe we just have a better taste in humor. There was also a tweet where whoever larped as a rabbit said he had a soul. This makes no sense, considering that loporrits are arcane entities and should not have souls by any reasonable metric. This of course, was left unexplained and seems like something EN team is doing while others manage to remain stable and not drown in the depths of cringe, there’s something to be said about how some people need to stay in line.

Yet another patch of running this game to the ground and turning a good setting into cheap book for kids where all issues are simplified and the core of the story is based around empty platitudes and “feel good messages”. Shame, before 6.3 I believed this game could be saved, but the last few patches starting from 6.25 were an absolute disaster.

[DrWho2010]

the only thing that's cringe here is your post.

[Stormpeaks]

the only thing that's cringe here is your post.

Dont worry you'll get a little pat on the head from SE for defending them from criticism

[VelKallor]

flanderized

What the.......???

[Iyrnthota]

Dont worry you'll get a little pat on the head from SE for defending them from criticism

Interesting how they didn't outright defend SE, just insulted the OP, but you assumed it was in SE's defense anyway.

Almost like by immediately defending the OP's criticism you're engaging in the same performative side taking that you're accusing Who of.

But what do I know, I'm just an idiot with a keyboard.

[VelKallor]

The last thing I will touch on is the absolute cringe fest that was the Tweetingway day yesterday. The culmination of “Omg so randum” humor, cringe renditions of the songs, played up excitement, and pretending to be “cutesy”. This is something children in kindergarten would enjoy and even so I doubt about that. Defenders of such displays like to accuse the protesters of having no sense of humor, but I am more inclined to believe we just have a better taste in humor. There was also a tweet where whoever larped as a rabbit said he had a soul. This makes no sense, considering that loporrits are arcane entities and should not have souls by any reasonable metric. This of course, was left unexplained and seems like something EN team is doing while others manage to remain stable and not drown in the depths of cringe, there’s something to be said about how some people need to stay in line.

Having a crew member / community manager engage with the community is kinda their job, ya know? I love Tweetingway,. so they use humour? So WHAT?? I prefer their easygoing and CONTINUING involvement with their players an absolute benefit...why it is you think staff cant have fun in their jobs is beyond understanding.

So what?

They already HAVE an official Twitter that deals with day to day game matters, updates, news etc so you can just follow that.

Mate. Seriously. Really. Ease up. You'll blow a gasket at this rate.

( Oh and I hadnt touched that yet so..................thanks for the spoilers)

[RukoBoshi]

This again ? I'll repeat what i said the last time you post that stuff then :
Tribes quests have had a light-hearted tone since Heavensward.
I did not see anyone complain when we covered the entrance of Hraesvelgr's domain in pink pom-pom with the mogs.

Nor when the namazu quests was about making a 7 years long festival that spawned a giant flaming namazu that you can see from everywhere in the azim steppe.

I don't know why you're suddenly expecting serious tribe quests when the last time we got one was in ARR.

[VelKallor]

I swear to heaven, there are some players in this game who just want to be miserable, cant see any joy or love in any part of the game..and then come here to make the rest of us just as miserable.

[CStrife912]

This feels like an Aveyond alt....jokes aside...its like the game is made for multiple people and you question the 'fun times' being sort of tone deaf can sometimes occur but this isn't the first time random stuff happens after tragic stuff in the franchise lol.

[Thenightvortex]

I swear to heaven, there are some players in this game who just want to be miserable, cant see any joy or love in any part of the game..and then come here to make the rest of us just as miserable.

Not true, actually. I liked the Rubicante backstory quest in 6.3, it was very touching.

This feels like an Aveyond alt....jokes aside...its like the game is made for multiple people and you question the 'fun times' being sort of tone deaf can sometimes occur but this isn't the first time random stuff happens after tragic stuff in the franchise lol.

The problem is is that there is too much fun stuff and too little tragedy, 100% of which is directed at antagonistic forces such as garleans. I’m fine with the cutesy fun stuff in Hildibrand and to some extent beast tribes, but not when this is creeping into the MSQ(almost entire moon and the second part of Labyrinthos), chronicles of the new era raid storylines and relic quests. So far the only questline in the entire EW free from it in Pandaemonium. There is little to no tragedy and too much comedy imo.