Quote Originally Posted by Sorimachi87 View Post
As the final week has approached, i wanted to create a little bit of a goodbye thread in this otherwise run over forum by negativity.


Thank you, for the expansion. Especially the mainstory 6.0. Goodbye Endwalker!
Thank you for making this, and apologies on behalf of the negative echo chamber that can't stand people enjoying the game.

I had a blast with EW. Loved the story, loved the music, leveled to max the most classes I ever have, got into classes I had shelved completely before (mainly NIN and AST). Fun times with hunt trains, actually got into crafting. First xpac I was actually already max level in at least one class at the start instead of playing catch-up, and still have some things I won't get to before the xpac is over in a short moment. Looking forward to the next chapter with DT!

I don't feel people are very hyped for dawntrail after the suckage of ew. It feels to me dawntrail is the last leg for 14 and I'm not sure the devs understand that.
Be wary of echo chambers (i.e. most of this forum). They can end up giving someone a very false impression of what's really going on. Heck, the hunt trains running this morning were as packed as ever with a lot of "hype" running through the chat, same with the FC. Take a spin around places like YT and for every person here who comments or "likes" a comment naysaying the game, you'll find dozens of people doing the exact opposite. The playerbase data says the same - even once the "WoW exodus" ran its course, EW still had the highest player population at every single point along the way compared with ShB (just as ShB did compared to SB, and SB compared to HW, etc.). The game is actually still on an upward trajectory and will be going for a long time to come.

I think Destiny 2's recent xpac is a good lesson. Check out those forums - the toxicity there leading up to their recently released xpac made this place look like a paradise in comparison. Then the xpac launched...and it's been enormously popular, widely praised...all while the same group continues their negativity on the forum. I expect the same will happen here - a massively popular release of DT, with the forum community that's buried its head in its own echo chamber wondering how it could be.