Quote Originally Posted by Boa-Noah View Post
Am I out of the loop or are people seriously going "Nah this expansion sucks" just from the rough plot thread we've been shown so far?
They are saying that based on the trailer, but if they looked at the information beyond that (such as videos, screenshots and art of the areas we're getting) and pickup on the FF9 references, it's actually going to be really good. Just a lot of people will only see the trailer. The launch trailer will most likely be the real trailer for this expansion that shows off what the expansion is really about, but people forget about the launch trailers usually.

Others are saying it'll not be good based on the content and mechanics rather than the story, but the content and mechanics are mostly going to be the same as the last 4 expansions so it's kinda just, if you're expecting a formula that's been the same since Heavensward/Stormblood to be different, it's expecting something that hasn't ever happened in the game's life, you know?

Quote Originally Posted by Bonoki View Post
It seems our journey to the New World is driven solely by the Warrior of Light's aimlessness, prompted by a chance request from a stranger to aid in a competition whom we know nothing about.
We did learn more information, actually:
  1. The New World was one of the places we were advised to explore in Ultima Thule.
  2. The competition involves a competitor who intends to wage war with the eastern nations now that Garlemald is out of the picture. Getting this information out of Wuk made the situation far more urgent.
  3. Galuf Baldesion was meant to handle something in the New World, but can't because he's no longer around due to the incident. Krile thought it a good opportunity to bring this letter she found up. Out of respect, we can sort it out in their stead.
Quote Originally Posted by Router View Post
I don't think it's surprising that some people aren't hyped considering that we've gotten basically zero story hooks to pull us in for DT.
I agree that these hooks being sudden and done at the tail end of the patch cycle made them feel rushed.

The devs even realized this and dropped the Solution 9 preview just to get people wondering WTF is going on.
To be fair, they usually show us most of the areas except the last one, spoil the early part of the plot (but not the end nor the last boss nor the setbacks) and they usually put a lot of contextless spoilers in the launch trailer. Always remember the Shadowbringers launch trailer spoiled the primals discussion from the Qitana Ravel though.