Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
It doesn't help that it's already being described as a 'vacation'. I doubt there will be any major stakes given that the second coming of the apocalypse resulted in the increasingly smarmy protagonists bragging about walking away with not even a scar to show for it.
Yeah it's extremely disappointing given that most of post-Endwalker's content was a vacation and even the allegedly serious Void storyline can't be spared from stupid slice of life scenes that I don't come to FF for. There are people who would seriously try to argue that they're as relevant as the tavern/banquet style scenes in FFXVI but I have better things to do than point out how obviously different they are in terms of tone and purpose.

It's as if they took all the feedback that people who criticized Endwalker's story over and then turned that into 7.0. I have no idea why they would want to alienate and divide up the playerbase like this but FFXIV players deserve better. Leave the jokes and slice of life stuff for Hildibrand and other side content and give us an actual FF story in a location that's actually memorable. Because I would never be able to tell you what any of the new DT locations names are from memory.

You can't tell me to "go relax!" in Island Sanctuary for 2 years on top of "see how much we looove you!" in the Myths raids and the other forced in moments we've seen this expansion and then decide that 7.0 needs even more of that. I don't know how else to describe this stuff other than difficult to sit through and embarrassing to be associated with.

When people ask me what kind of games I like to play I don't mention FFXIV anymore because a) Endwalker has almost no fun content and b) the game has flown way too far from what brought players like me to it in terms of the setting and story. I would never admit in real life that I played the mmorpg that decided having a hideous cgi model eat a taco in the trailer. From the outsider's perspective the state of FFXIV just keeps getting more and more bizarre.

We needed a strong new start after these horrible lull in story and content but it seems we're not getting that at all. At least FFXVI is getting more content, I have 0 issue with profits going from whatever it is FFXIV has become to fund the game that I liked better.