Endwalker is my least favorite expansion yet

[Hyperia]

I am wondering if Yoshi and the senior dev team are trying out all of the junior devs to see how things go while they are away at FF16.

I know Yoshi is looking for people who can fill his role if he had to withdraw due to health or other factors.

I am hoping that they are actually spending all of these vast dev resources on finishing the duty support and making 7.0 the rumored new restart point for the game. New players could start in 2.0 or 7.0. This is my hope and it would explain the way things are. If not… I am deeply worried for this game.

[VelKallor]

I am wondering if Yoshi and the senior dev team are trying out all of the junior devs to see how things go while they are away at FF16.

Again. FF 16 is finished. Done. Ready to ship.

This repeated meme that they have neglected 14 for 16 is getting...silly. And old.

[Absurdity]

You made me realise I actually feel nostalgic for Stormblood. To think this is where we are...

I've been nostalgic for Stormblood since halfway into Shadowbringers, because the gameplay didn't make me fall asleep in 90% of the content yet.

As someone more interested in the pve gameplay that I'm supposed to engage with all the time instead of one and done story I think Shadowbringers wasn't any better than Endwalker, what makes people remember Shadowbringers more fondly is that the plot wasn't the literary equivalent of swiss cheese.

The complete disaster that was the healer rework (and arguably also Dark Knight), removal of multiple tank mechanics, trials with unnecessarily long cutscenes in the middle of it, Alliance Raids that make you wonder if it's even possible to wipe and the start of pursuing the lowest common denominator in terms of overall job and content design all happened in that expansion.

What makes me dislike Endwalker is that it doubled down on design decisions that I already hated back in Shadowbringers, it's simply another 2 years of the same.

[Sheriyana]

You made me realise I actually feel nostalgic for Stormblood. To think this is where we are...

Yeah, same, I thought Stormblood was disappointing at the time but we've fallen so far since then... To think at the time the biggest problem with the story was the lack of focus with the story being split into two fronts.

[Mithron]

Yeah, same, I thought Stormblood was disappointing at the time but we've fallen so far since then... To think at the time the biggest problem with the story was the lack of focus with the story being split into two fronts.

Stormblood was still riding the high of how good HW was

[IkaraGreydancer]

Cool OP. EW is my favorite. We all have opinions none more correct than anyone else's in this case. Hope 7.0 has more of what you're looking for

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Again. FF 16 is finished. Done. Ready to ship.

This repeated meme that they have neglected 14 for 16 is getting...silly. And old.

Ehem... They could be working on dlc! I hope they are 16 looks great.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Shadowbringers was probably my favorite, followed by Heavensward. Mostly because they were both telling one story at a time, not trying to tell two and getting one of them over-condensed.

[Hyperia]

Ehem... They could be working on dlc! I hope they are 16 looks great.

I thought I saw them say they canceled the PC release, guess that indicates that SE needs the devs elsewhere besides 16 development.

[Dorito_Burrito]

I thought I saw them say they canceled the PC release, guess that indicates that SE needs the devs elsewhere besides 16 development.

I'm not seeing anything about a cancelled PC release. Are you thinking the 6 month PlayStation exclusivity window Sony's got them committed to?