What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Xeronia]

I mean I found myself largely agreeing with the sentiment of the thread myself but I see no reason to join stuff over it as I already have friends to rant to about it that at least will make doing the MSQ fun. We are playing the MSQ later this week and having a "Who can ruin the most cutscenes in their atrocious outfits" contest as well the story will at least be funny then. I am hoping King Slime Hat pulls out a victory with the insane physics personally but one of my friends has threatened a mismatched clown outfit.

[Teraq]

uh oh, sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays!!

Here, for you:

Thanks, mom! And no, this one Monday was in fact a holiday – the last of the May holidays, RIP. Imagine how trancing I am on a regular terrible Monday!

I mean I found myself largely agreeing with the sentiment of the thread myself but I see no reason to join stuff over it as I already have friends to rant to about it that at least will make doing the MSQ fun. We are playing the MSQ later this week and having a "Who can ruin the most cutscenes in their atrocious outfits" contest as well the story will at least be funny then. I am hoping King Slime Hat pulls out a victory with the insane physics personally but one of my friends has threatened a mismatched clown outfit.

This is the correct way to enjoy the MSQ.

And yeah. Personally I am lucky that my RL friends also hated the 6.0 MSQ as much as I did, so I could freely unload everything I wanted to say pretty early on. I can't imagine how awful it would have felt not to have that.

Ultimately we are just former fans grieving a story we used to love and discussing the myriad ways it went wrong. There is no conspiracy here or drafting innocents into our shadow wizard money gang (or forcing people to sacrifice themselves to our dark lord, even!). Join if you feel like it, or don't. I did because I do love beating a dead horse myself!

[Kozh]

I mean I found myself largely agreeing with the sentiment of the thread myself but I see no reason to join stuff over it as I already have friends to rant to about it that at least will make doing the MSQ fun. We are playing the MSQ later this week and having a "Who can ruin the most cutscenes in their atrocious outfits" contest as well the story will at least be funny then. I am hoping King Slime Hat pulls out a victory with the insane physics personally but one of my friends has threatened a mismatched clown outfit.

*sigh* lucky you. I don't have RL friends to rant to since all of them doesn't even play games (and the one who does don't like MMO). Once I foolishly rant to big ffxiv community place (reddit, reddit discord, twitter) and, well, I quickly learn how this playerbase treat minority (of opinion). So yeah, while it's not perfect, and I too occasionally went into argument/fight with people there, I'm thankful that place exist. Otherwise I'll go crazy.