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

[Lunaxia]

I have to ask. Is it strange I still feel really odd about Endwalker?

Like, I've made my peace with it, by and large. I don't feel particularly strongly about it one way or the other, and I don't find myself needing or wanting to talk about it all that much. I see a lot of people still really mad about it and at the game which I sort of get, but at the same time I just don't have that emotion or energy anymore. But I still feel... strange, especially seeing the new Dawntrail trailer, like, huh. That really is it.

I guess it feels weird because I've been here since Heavensward dropped, and the Ascians/ Hydaelyn/ Zodiark etc. saga has been a (admittedly not always entertaining, prior to ShB) part of the story that you always saw panning out at some point in the future, but not only has it been and gone so quickly but with such a whump I still find myself surprised it actually happened and that was what we got. It's oddly difficult to come to terms with (not in a super dramatic way, just like, that's how it ended, after all this time? You know?)

I'm just rambling, but yeah. It's like... I don't know, I still feel like I don't have much closure on it, not so much just that part of the story but what it feels like it also turned FFXIV as I knew it into. I sure as hell know by now the game isn't going to give me any, but it's like a limbo I can't get out of. I just don't play anymore, really, or bother with the community all that much, but after a while I tune into what's happening out of sheer habit, and I don't really know what I'm looking for, lol. I guess it'll just fizzle out eventually, but it's sad.

Yeah. It's sad.

Anyway, I hope everyone else is having a good day.

[Rosenstrauch]

I have to ask. Is it strange I still feel really odd about Endwalker?

I resubbed this July to try and catch up on the content I missed—6.4, the 24-Man raids, the second and third wings of Pandaemonium, etc. What I found was that I couldn't be bothered to make the effort. Out of all the new content in Endwalker, all I really managed to dip my feet in was Eureka Orthos—not worth it btw—and Island Sanctuary. And aside from walking away from that with a few GPose pictures, I feel like I wasted my time.

Even my writing efforts took a nosedive this month, I think. Though that's also 'cause transcribing dialogue from the game itself is a thoroughly soulless affair, but the chapter I was working on required two scenes of that. It's telling that I ended up cutting the quest "Bridging the Rift" into two chapters—technically three—and had the majority of what happens in them be wholly original stuff.

So... yeah, I think I get what you're feeling. FFXIV is likely going to occupy a place in my mind for a long while, but I doubt it'll ever be a game I actually want to play anytime soon. Mostly I'm going to content myself with pumping out chapters for Ascilia, Scion of Light, and then quietly disappear once I'm satisfied I've done all I want with that fic.

Oh well. There's always the next horizon whatever that'll be. Mass Effect 4 may be coming in the next year, which if it does is certain to revive that community from a shriveled husk. But there may not be a proper new MMO to keep my attention for a long while.

EDIT: Baldur's Gate 3 comes out in like two days, too. Seems like it'll be a game to really sink my teeth into.

[KageTokage]

I have to ask. Is it strange I still feel really odd about Endwalker?

Like, I've made my peace with it, by and large. I don't feel particularly strongly about it one way or the other, and I don't find myself needing or wanting to talk about it all that much. I see a lot of people still really mad about it and at the game which I sort of get, but at the same time I just don't have that emotion or energy anymore. But I still feel... strange, especially seeing the new Dawntrail trailer, like, huh. That really is it.

I guess it feels weird because I've been here since Heavensward dropped, and the Ascians/ Hydaelyn/ Zodiark etc. saga has been a (admittedly not always entertaining, prior to ShB) part of the story that you always saw panning out at some point in the future, but not only has it been and gone so quickly but with such a whump I still find myself surprised it actually happened and that was what we got. It's oddly difficult to come to terms with (not in a super dramatic way, just like, that's how it ended, after all this time? You know?)

I'm just rambling, but yeah. It's like... I don't know, I still feel like I don't have much closure on it, not so much just that part of the story but what it feels like it also turned FFXIV as I knew it into. I sure as hell know by now the game isn't going to give me any, but it's like a limbo I can't get out of. I just don't play anymore, really, or bother with the community all that much, but after a while I tune into what's happening out of sheer habit, and I don't really know what I'm looking for, lol. I guess it'll just fizzle out eventually, but it's sad.

Yeah. It's sad.

Anyway, I hope everyone else is having a good day.

Not really.

I have a similar sense of general...apathy towards anything story-related in the game nowdays and I'll be extremely surprised if they manage to reel me in again with Dawntrail.

There are numerous directions I could see them going in for the next story arc that would genuinely interest me but I'm not terribly confident the execution would be on point even if they did.