Unenthused About Dawntrail

[xxmiamorecadenza]

I'm absolutely certain that a majority of folks are hyped for Dawntrail which is great and well-deserved.

But I'm curious about folks who are actively going 'meh' about it's arrival.

Personally, I'm only looking forward to Female Hrothgar. But nothing particularly intriguing sticks out to me. I've yet to be properly hooked like I was for Endwalker. The trailer didn't excite me - the new jobs are alright but nothing eye catching - I don't really care about the graphics update - and I'm taking the promise of more content with a grain of salt.

For my fellow denizens of this forum who aren't terribly hyped or even moderately excited over the upcoming patch 7.0 - may I ask why?

[Xillean]

I am not really excited either. I dont care about either job, the graphics update hurts my current appearances more then it helps, and the story seems rather...boring?

Not that a more down to earth story is bad, just so far I dont care about it

[SongOfTheWind]

Also not excited. I think narratively the motivation for our character also looked off. We are hesitant until we hear about the Golden City, but at the same time we don’t hear anything about it at all? What part of it intrigues us so? We are not told the legend, nothing. I am personally confused. If seeing new world on its own and helping out a friend of a friend is not enough, why this is suddenly it?

[GTK0HLK]

It will always be a subjective thing.

Me personally, as soon as I get a Figurative "Hit" of "Open Sky(yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy)", or any new Dawntrail Related Media.

It brings a bit if excitement of what is to come.

Mostly cause it's new, and always a chance of things improving about as much as things not getting worse in most things.

This is basically the ARR of The New Story Arc.

So if you spent all your GaF's with Endwalker, it's perfectly fine and reasonable to be at the bottom if the Rollercoaster track.

RN, since I know that the Benchmark is getting Retooled and improved, I'm taking a break from it.

And seeing as the conversations around it has also slowed abit.

So are others, waiting for it, to see if anything at all changes. Dramatically or Not, before making more guesses.

We for sure won't see the Completely Finished product like it will be.

But definetly WAAAAY much close to how it likely will be.

It's basically just wait and see.

And since we all know the dates of what they are planning.

With Most of the Cards laid Flat on the table.

It's just the calm before the "Flood of Threads" (Figuratively and Literally. Ingame and out.)

TLDR:
atm, "Eh..,"
Actuality, "Some promise, let's see how it goes when more info drops"

Mind Going OFF into space, "Will it be our/my Planeptune?"

[Jeeqbit]

But nothing particularly intriguing sticks out to me. I've yet to be properly hooked like I was for Endwalker. The trailer didn't excite me

It's deliberate. They are lowering your expectations on purpose by making you think it's just a boring holiday. It's not.

Firstly, we are getting a mountain area, a desert area, a technology-ish desert area, a technology city and some other place, and lots of technology dungeons. Secondly, there are a lot of references to FF9 and if you have played FF9 you know it is one of the best Final Fantasy games ever, and they will most likely borrow things from it.

[SongOfTheWind]

Secondly, there are a lot of references to FF9 and if you have played FF9 you know it is one of the best Final Fantasy games ever, and they will most likely borrow things from it.

They referenced ff4 for Endwalker and it was pretty much just it, a few references.

[Nizzi]

I'm not excited because it's going to play like Shadowbringers 3.0, aka Endwalker 2.0 and that's boring. Why would I get excited for more of the same? It's great that Yoshi P can say "Oh you're getting all of this great content, new Deep Dungeon, new Exploratory Zone and more!" but if the jobs aren't fun to play I have nothing to look forward to. This is basically just what, patch 5.12? Oh boy, another expansion where I mash my Glare/Broil/Malefic/Dosis key on healers! Another expansion where I hit my 1-2-3 builder spender on a lot of jobs! etc etc

If you're excited for more of the same I can see how you'd be hyped but more of the same is just 2-3 more years of Endwalker tbh and they've given me zero reason to believe that isn't the case

[Jeeqbit]

They referenced ff4 for Endwalker and it was pretty much just it, a few references.

There is a similarity in the initial plot, because we have the obvious heir to the throne (Wuk) and a character that wants to wage war with other nations.

All the references had me wondering why they didn't just copy FF9's "kidnap the princess" (aka Wuk) plot and instead set it up as a tournament and the reason is most likely because it's an MMORPG that needs a fixed amount of dungeons and trials. By making it a tournament instead, it fills their dungeon/trial quota for the expansion in a similar fashion that Shadowbringers did with the light wardens.

So they don't seem to need to worry about taking inspiration from FF9 at all because the fact of it being an MMORPG with its own established lore forces drastic changes on its own to make it fit, enough to distinguish it.

One way or another, there is evidence of a larger plot at play on the basis all that technology is mysteriously there and appears as if it's sucking the north dry of aether without particularly being of benefit to all the people that live there, so I'm satisfied the trailer is just trying to mislead us.

[DBriggs304]

Pretty much the same. There seems to be literally no hype. I mentioned a few days ago in another thread that there really isn't anything to be excited for this time around. The main draws seem to be be two lackluster classes (One of which is completely stupid), Female Hrothgar, which should have NOT been a major addition for an expansion literally two expansions later after you introduced the race in general, and an unnecessary graphics update in which entirely too much time has been wasted on. It just seems to be more of the same. There doesn't seem to be even a change to our companions. I thought everyone was going to go their own way in EW only to reunite in a patch. We didn't even get a chance to miss them. Meanwhile, it's disheartening to see how WoW seems to have done a complete 180 with new systems, QoL changes, and taking different chances that the FF devs used to take. They seem like they have gotten very lazy with the game in general. I hope Dawntrail proves me wrong, but I doubt it. There is literally no hype out here like it was for SB or EW.

[Roda]

I'm a bit hyped for hrothgals and interested in seeing the graphics update in action, but that's unfortunately not much hype to carry an expansion for me. The story might be interesting, but I was "eh" on EW's story and actively was not enjoying the patch content, so i'm a bit more wary for DT than I was for EW. Wuk Lamat seems fun, Erenville seems like a fun straightman, I like that it's getting more political after we had a big cosmic finale, but the cyberpunk area better have some rock solid justifications or else it's gonna feel real jarring or like SB where the focus was split on two places that should've been fully fleshed out.

My enthusiasm really hinges on what we learn from the media tour phase. I'll be excited if we see the sorely needed QoL features this game has been lacking being implemented (I will literally flip a switch into being fanatically excited if I see a "we added player speech bubbles"), Job design leaving the "burst rut" it's been getting more and more trapped in, giving smn an actual mechanic to manage, pct feeling unique (/picking up the problem solving niches they deleted with old smn :')), more day-to-day content that asks me to use my brain when I engage with it, an overworld that's usable for more than just gathering, hunts, killpit fates, and being a backdrop for quest cutscenes, etc. I'm super worried that this "new beginning" style expac is going to solidify XIV as THE complacency / paint-by-numbers mmo which might be the final nail in my coffin for burnout. :T