Quote Originally Posted by Turtledeluxe View Post
Knew people would bitch? Huh? It's not my fault the devs couldn't develop an interesting villain or hell, even Wuk Lamat's motive is so basic and uninteresting. The bland characters totally clash with the excellent maps and art design. The only thing pushing the story forward is humor and very vague mystery.

On top of that we just aren't doing anything fun. This area is desperately crying out for mini games or something. It just feels very under developed. How many people are even developing this game anymore? Dawntrails msq feels like they just gave up. It's more than just bad.

Erenville is also totally being wasted imo. There was a moment where I felt like I was going to learn something about him then the game was like "lol no just enjoy this sick lighting".

The pacing is also total garbage. Good thing I have Fates bc there's nothing to do for literal hours.
This is what genuinely disappoints me. Everything in the expansion area is so incredibly well done. The environments are everything I've been asking for. The music is insanely fun and beautiful - despite Tuliyollal's main theme being super out of place, it's still really beautifully made! The races are really interesting. Everything should be 10/10 of yet this is the first time in 10+yrs I've ever taken a break to just go do some daily roulettes because the story was so unfun and not at all engaging. Everything is set up to be a homerun and the writers couldn't have dropped the ball harder.

I refuse to give this expansion the excuse of "well it's set up!" Fellowship of the Rings was setup, every expansion before shadowbringers was a delving into a new story (Ishgard with the Dragonsong war had no narrative bearing on Eorzea's city states coming together, Stormblood's entire Kugane / Doma / Aura story was essential a side story parralleling Ala Mihgo). Yet, somehow all of those expansions were exceptionally engaging and genuinely exciting to go through.

So far there's nothing. I don't care about the city of gold b/c the story hasn't told me anything besides a certain someone whispering about it in a memory that I've forgotten b/c of the post patch of EW. There's literally nothing. What, I'm supposed to be afraid of a bad leader taking over? Yeah, I'm not. I'll beat them in a raid, or I'll suffer to liberate their subjects, or I'll be the hero this game has set my character to be for 10+yrs of struggle, success, failures, and mistakes. I want to love this expansion. It's made beautifully, sounds beautifully, looks beautifully (aside from character upgrades... gah it's bad), and the story alone has made a 10 turn into a 2 so far... it's awful.