Unenthused About Dawntrail

[Supersnow845]

It honestly feels like the slog of ARR returning for me personally. Our 10 year story was finished with Endwalker. So, now it's a question of how much boring content do we sit through before the next story gets interesting again? I think that's why most people have low expectations for Dawntrail.

The major problem is the lack of hype material before launch. We don't know much of anything and the launch is only 2 months away. The benchmark was also a huge miss with showing off the graphics update and was probably worst case scenario for those looking for some kind of hook to get excited for things to come. Endwalker itself was hit or miss for most people, but at least it had years of story buildup to drive interest. We are going into Dawntrail with almost everything solved... And that's a lot to ask someone to get excited for with how Endwalker was received overall.

Yeah there is definitely a strong sense of “inertia” so to speak with the community right now

The collective community hasn’t been excited about the game since like 6.0 which is near 3 years ago at this point and a large part of the community has had large game altering grievances for nigh on 5

What’s there really to be excited about for what appears to be a “stage setter” expansion when we have been in the “bubbling along not actively terrible but not great” inertia stage for 3 years now, especially since the benchmark didn’t land with a lot of people (healers what a surprise) and we have functionally nothing else even though launch is 2 months away

[Daralii]

Yeah there is definitely a strong sense of “inertia” so to speak with the community right now

The collective community hasn’t been excited about the game since like 6.0 which is near 3 years ago at this point and a large part of the community has had large game altering grievances for nigh on 5

What’s there really to be excited about for what appears to be a “stage setter” expansion when we have been in the “bubbling along not actively terrible but not great” inertia stage for 3 years now, especially since the benchmark didn’t land with a lot of people (healers what a surprise) and we have functionally nothing else even though launch is 2 months away

Their goal at this point is just to do as little as possible and milk what they can to fund other projects because Square as a whole keeps making terrible decisions and doesn't have many other games that are profitable enough. The story will go nowhere, and job changes will amount to simplifying and homogenizing(they already said DRG's getting "reworked") with new abilities just being visual updates to old ones.

[WantlessYoYo]

Their goal at this point is just to do as little as possible and milk what they can to fund other projects because Square as a whole keeps making terrible decisions and doesn't have many other games that are profitable enough. The story will go nowhere, and job changes will amount to simplifying and homogenizing(they already said DRG's getting "reworked") with new abilities just being visual updates to old ones.

Imagine if this game actually got little more than the surely 20% than it makes

Always felt SE doesn't put the money XIV makes back into it as it should, and it's just sad, so so freaking sad

[Arkdra]

Imagine if this game actually got little more than the surely 20% than it makes

Always felt SE doesn't put the money XIV makes back into it as it should, and it's just sad, so so freaking sad

It wouldn't matter too much because their workflow bottleneck has always been, "can't find people with mmo experience who speak Japanese" and not money?