I don't want to see any of the other Scions in 7.0.

[Simple_Barghest]

Technically in game time all the things that happened between 1.0 and up until now have only been 1.5 years or less

Only because the story-writers have an aversion to moving the clock forward and want everything to sit in this nice, neat little bubble.
"Everything has happened 5 years after the Umbral Calamity," better keep adding months to the year then because your timeline looks like hot ass.

[Oizen]

Ah yes because the most profitable franchise in the entire world is clearly doing something wrong... gotcha.

Money talks. It doesn't matter how good or bad you think the series is. If it's profitable, it's a success and they will continue to stay on that path as long as the profits are there. Clearly they are doing something right if their franchise is Number 1 the world over. Don't like the direction? Vote with your wallet.

And Profitability and Popularity aren't indicators of Quality.

Pokemon fans tried to vote with their wallet, the paste eating consumers made it so Gamefreak doesn't have to put in effort when making their slop.



The concept of a property being too big to fail exists, and god damn pokemon has hit it.

[Alleluia]

And Profitability and Popularity aren't indicators of Quality.

Pokemon fans tried to vote with their wallet, the paste eating consumers made it so Gamefreak doesn't have to put in effort when making their slop.



The concept of a property being too big to fail exists, and god damn pokemon has hit it.

Its popular, though. Which means a lot of people either don't consider it a fail or don't consider it enough of a fail to warrant not buying it; enough to make it worth continuing. You just don't share their taste.

Too big to fail means something is being propped up. Nothing is propping the sales of a product up except people buying it. Unless Gamefreak received some outside intervention I'm not aware of?

[Kazemon15]

Its popular, though. Which means a lot of people either don't consider it a fail or don't consider it enough of a fail to warrant not buying it; enough to make it worth continuing. You just don't share their taste.

Too big to fail means something is being propped up. Nothing is propping the sales of a product up except people buying it. Unless Gamefreak received some outside intervention I'm not aware of?

This. I would argue be happy FFXIV doesn't just make expansions riddled with bugs like these because they actually care about their product, but as we see from complaints, most people don't care that they "care" or claim they don't "care". If they truly didn't care, we'd be getting expansions with Scarlet and Violet quality.

[Tulvi]

I hope they never do this. I love all Scions and there are a lot of ways how we can progress through the new story together.

[aveyond-dreams]

I know precious little of Pokemon save the hilarious videos that were posted everywhere when the latest instalment came out. They remind me of the various technical issues we've had this expansion ranging from the winning number is 0 to the latest ultimate being a bug-ridden mess.

FFXIV seems intent on following that example, I fear. Those who tried to hold the standard have been drowned out by those who are eager to let them slip because they aren't able to see things as they are. So be it then. Those of us who favor good mmos will move on to Ashes of Creation and those of us who enjoy single player titles will have among the likes of FFXVI and Dragon Age Dreadwolf to entertain ourselves.

[Chie_M]

"We"?

Who is "we"?

Those of us who are sick of the Scions. Apologies - I'll edit my post to be clearer when I'm on my PC (why can't I edit on mobile SE?).

[Absimiliard]

The fact not a single one of them died in Ultima Thule still boggles the mind. I know people simp Y'sthola and G'raha for some reason that is utterly incomprehensible to me, and Estinien is mostly regarded as a fresher face, but the rest of them don't even have a reason to exist anymore. They aren't marketable in the least; Alphinaud and Alisaie just annoy most people, and Thancred only saw a brief resurgence because of "my turn" and "this is Thancred."

As if a lot of people weren't already sick of them.

[Boblawblah]

Alphinaud and Alisaie just annoy most people

Do you have any source on that? I was under the impression that the twins were pretty well liked.

[aveyond-dreams]

The fact not a single one of them died in Ultima Thule still boggles the mind. I know people simp Y'sthola and G'raha for some reason that is utterly incomprehensible to me, and Estinien is mostly regarded as a fresher face, but the rest of them don't even have a reason to exist anymore. They aren't marketable in the least; Alphinaud and Alisaie just annoy most people, and Thancred only saw a brief resurgence because of "my turn" and "this is Thancred."

As if a lot of people weren't already sick of them.

If my first exposure to FFXIV was the CGI ad of the twins from Endwalker I would instantly write off the game as not for me. Alphinaud is nothing more than a blunt tool with which to force in messaging whenever necessary and Alisae is just a headache now. I've articulated my feelings on the others many times in the past.

All have outstayed their welcome. Keeping them around and adding Krile to the mix would only go to show just how disconnected and insular the people in charge of this are from feedback from anyone that isn't a scion supporter.