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

[Swad]

For this story I just assumed the second anything would go wrong Wuk would become Ranjiit tiers of powerful and instantly kill anything for us that was a problem. I wasn't wrong. Just gotta bank on the JP side hating it when it makes no sense we are struggling with a fight with scions that killed ultra gods in a beach expansion.

[Elodie_Einsbern]

For this story I just assumed the second anything would go wrong Wuk would become Ranjiit tiers of powerful and instantly kill anything for us that was a problem. I wasn't wrong. Just gotta bank on the JP side hating it when it makes no sense we are struggling with a fight with scions that killed ultra gods in a beach expansion.

This is my big worry. This fan base is so ravid when it comes to any criticism. For the first time ever I'm seeing people in game complaining about the story in shout chat. But then it gets dog piled on by the die hards, with people saying they are blocking anyone criticizing the story and how everything is perfect.

So most likely Yoshi and his team will get nothing but praise and nothing will change. But I'm a glass half full kind of person, so maybe I'll be surprised and the JP side can pull a win for us all. Because I truly believe they are the only ones being pandered too when it comes to the story.

[Malthir]

This is my big worry. This fan base is so ravid when it comes to any criticism. For the first time ever I'm seeing people in game complaining about the story in shout chat. But then it gets dog piled on by the die hards, with people saying they are blocking anyone criticizing the story and how everything is perfect.

So most likely Yoshi and his team will get nothing but praise and nothing will change. But I'm a glass half full kind of person, so maybe I'll be surprised and the JP side can pull a win for us all. Because I truly believe they are the only ones being pandered too when it comes to the story.

I wouldn't say that, cause in a month when the sub figures for the expac comes out low as all hell they will know. They might not know why due to the zealots telling them the sun shines out their rears. But they will at least know they screwed up. It's sad to see, as they did a good job capitalising on the WoW expac falling flat, but now looks like wow will end up eating a significant chunk of the playerbases come end of august and I don't really see many coming back when all they have to offer is a terrible story and worse gameplay than EW.

This expac was made for tweens and the uwu cringe crowd that plays this game, and I don't think they are close to the majority of the playerbase.

[Elodie_Einsbern]

I wouldn't say that, cause in a month when the sub figures for the expac comes out low as all hell they will know. They might not know why due to the zealots telling them the sun shines out their rears. But they will at least know they screwed up. It's sad to see, as they did a good job capitalising on the WoW expac falling flat, but now looks like wow will end up eating a significant chunk of the playerbases come end of august and I don't really see many coming back when all they have to offer is a terrible story and worse gameplay than EW.

This expac was made for tweens and the uwu cringe crowd that plays this game, and I don't think they are close to the majority of the playerbase.

Thats always been the issue though. I'm not saying FFXIV is going to die because of this, outside of something truly catastrophic like adding NFT's, this game is literally too big to fail. But how many MMO's have suffered from this exact scenario? Quality will continue too drop because of die hard ravid fans, and the ship never gets corrected because they don't know whats going on. As they continue to lose players

[Zaniel]

This expac was made for tweens and the uwu cringe crowd that plays this game, and I don't think they are close to the majority of the playerbase.

Bro, I worship at the altar of Yoshi-P and love everything up to 6.5 including every moment and sidequest of ARR and even I can't stand Dawntrail so far. The story, pacing, characters and delivery are appalling. Everything else is great but FF14 is THE story MMO, you can't have that implode and not have the game suffer.

[Larom]

Bro, I worship at the altar of Yoshi-P and love everything up to 6.5 including every moment and sidequest of ARR and even I can't stand Dawntrail so far. The story, pacing, characters and delivery are appalling. Everything else is great but FF14 is THE story MMO, you can't have that implode and not have the game suffer.

Based take. I've loved every second of the MSQ up until DT. I'd rather watch paint dry than play any more of the MSQ at this point.

[Verathel]

Based take. I've loved every second of the MSQ up until DT. I'd rather watch paint dry than play any more of the MSQ at this point.

It's definitely hard coming from Endwalker to this...Maybe I'm giving them too much leeway for I don't think it's terrible but I'm finding it very hard to give the story so far anything higher than a 7 to where I'am(mid third zone).

[Regis_Paran]

So most likely Yoshi and his team will get nothing but praise

I wonder if there are any critical posts on JP forums? From what I've been told, devs do read those (unlike ENG ones).