Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[Rannie]

I'm honestly not seeing, with how annoying Wuk Lamat is and how Erenville is acting with her, how they're even childhood friends. Yeah they do that type if stuff in anime bit they start out the characters at a younger age not practically adults. I think it would have been better if they just hadn't of created her.

[4clubbedace]

Ive been taking it from a different approach. I've been taking it from a FFX approach where we are her Guardians and helping her ascend to the throne, similar to how in FFX they helped Yuna obtain all the summons.

And instead of playing through the MSQ straight. I have been doing alot of side quests along the way to make the story more about my WOL and not what SE wants which is to make Wuk Lamat the main character. I mean they even made her a WAR for main character energy.

If this many people dislike the story then that simply means they will go with a different direction in 8.0

its clear that we are mentoring wuk, the wol had their "giant" explosive climax to an adventure, i assumed this one was going to be smaller stakes to compensate, and likewise also us taking a half step back, i dont mind

i see wuk as a "redo" of the lyse yda arc, yda to lyse was too fast, the personality change came with a costume switch there was no proper build up to yda being more confident and earning her role as leader, it didnt feel like the same ccharacter at all, i see wuks jounry as being a more natural progreison of that.

the acctual critic i have is that, because of this, i see wuk being relagated to npc leader we see never likee the aft formentioned lyse and earlier aymeric. so im havingg a hard time being too invested when i know i wont see her again anyways

[Grimno]

You just don't understand.

If you don't like what I like, you must be an idiot. Am I doing it right Sindele? This is surely how very intelligent people view the world, and not narrow-minded simpletons.

Wait...

I didn't mean to imply that YOU are a narrow-minded simpleton Sindele. Please forgive me. Your world view is the best and the greatest of all time. I'll just continue to consume product, everything is great.

I love the approach people are taking lol

"I don't like this one song. I will disable all songs now."
"I don't like this one voice. I will change all voices to another language now."
"I don't like the shading. I want to revert all the shading back."
"I don't like the story. The entire game sucks now."

Like man it must suck for all these people to be constantly miserable. I'm enjoying the expansion so far.
Music in the main city too jazzy? Don't care I'm still dancing to it cause that beat is fresh!
They don't like the story? Well sorry we ain't killing GOD again but I'm more then fine with being a helping adventurer.
They don't like the mounts tilting? Well sorry but I'm making vroom noises in my little airplane while I zip around because I'm not allergic to fun.

[Rolder50]

What woulda been really cool is if we weren't automatically stuck supporting Wuk. Like what if we just went over for the heck of it and got involved in the rite by accident and then got to support wuk or catboy. I feel like that could work but that would be more effort and require more creativity so that's probably why they didn't

[SirShady]

Half this thread is so transparently seething you could use their posts to replace your windows, and the other half would get lost following the plot of a picture book.

Wouldn't be a new expansion without a thread like it! Looking forward to the character apologetics in 5 years when another hit/miss new character is bringing about the fall of Western civilization.

WAHHH! I don't like when people voice opinions I disagree with! People who don't like the thing I like clearly are contrarians who don't like anything! Subjective criticism doesn't belong on discussion forums!

[lolnotacat]

What woulda been really cool is if we weren't automatically stuck supporting Wuk. Like what if we just went over for the heck of it and got involved in the rite by accident and then got to support wuk or catboy. I feel like that could work but that would be more effort and require more creativity so that's probably why they didn't

Everyone would've supported catboy then would've asked for a first promise option for luls, proving that Wuk Lamat's insecurities about being inferior to her brothers are actually true.

[SirShady]

I appreciate the recognition.

But I would probably avoid trotting out the 'just consume product' line while trying to defend the valor of a thread where we've got people who hated Endwalker, hated 6.x, and are now here to die on the hill of a character in Dawntrail being the worst writing since the dawn of mankind. Eventually, you've gotta come to terms with what you're repeatedly paying for.

WAHHH! Everyone who holds x opinion also holds y and z opinion! Everyone with a differing opinion from mine is a hivemind! Why does everyone have to be a hivemind instead of thinking exactly as I do?!

[Sindele]

WAHHH! I don't like when people voice opinions I disagree with! People who don't like the thing I like clearly are contrarians who don't like anything! Subjective criticism doesn't belong on discussion forums!

It's interesting to try and write this as a mocking response when two thirds of it is literally the argument you're making.

Public criticism begets public criticism.

WAHHH! Everyone who holds x opinion also holds y and z opinion! Everyone with a differing opinion from mine is a hivemind! Why does everyone have to be a hivemind instead of thinking exactly as I do?!

If you step up in someone's defense, you generally get conflated with their opinion, yeah. Case in point: I've never actually stated my opinion on the character or the story, but some assumptions have already been made, haven't they?

[CazzT]

At first I wasn't really keen on her. After first arriving on the new world, I warmed up to her a lot. But I'm almost done with the second fork and she's starting to grate on my nerves. She's lost her confidence and fun personality and is constantly putting herself down.

But she's a saint compared to Erenville who's constantly belittling her, treating her like a child, condescending, wouldn't know how to smile if his life depended on it, makes a black rain cloud look like a Sunday picnic.... I really hope he stops acting like an donkey's butt, cuz he's dragging the experience down. I look forward to any dialogue he's not part of, cuz I know when he's there he's gonna crap on everyone's happiness.

[Sayo_]

Erenville who's constantly belittling her, treating her like a child

Maybe she should act more like an adult then. He warned her about how the Pelupelu use honeyed words to make a sale and to not buy just whatever. What's the first thing she does? Gets almost swindled into buying a blanket she doesn't need. If Erenville wasn't there she would have went through with the needless sale he just warned her about.