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

[Sonoskay]

Moving the goalposts, such a typical tactic for people critical of feedback on the forums. You claimed it didn't reach out of the forums, I've shown you clearly it did. I'm not interesting in moving into a conversation over assumption about "what that means".

Okay. Considering Im the one who brought it up, and Did indeed mean its wider impact on the game ,and how *This* forum in particular seems to blow things out of proportion rather than how many people did or didn't hear about the strike. After all, I clearly heard about it. That wasn't my point. But You can have the win. it doesnt even matter to my overall point

[SwadTheFrog]

Okay. Considering Im the one who brought it up, and Did indeed mean its wider impact on the game ,and how *This* forum in particular seems to blow things out of proportion rather than how many people did or didn't hear about the strike. After all, I clearly heard about it. That wasn't my point. But You can have the win. it doesnt even matter to my overall point

Mate, stop being delusional, it's not the forum. I've got dozens of friends that play FF14. The vast *majority* of their opinion has been that the story is legitimately bad, and this has never happened beforehand. HW received a bit of criticism, Stormblood received a lot more, SHB almost nothing and Endawlker just a bit. And again, not just my friend group. Look in multiple communities, look in steam reviews, compare these threads to what came beforehand. The story's reception has been decidedly mixed and you literally cannot ignore that as just "muh forums being negative "

Similarly on the Strike thing - I actualy think it's a bit of a nothingburger on the grand scheme of things, but healers *are* generally very mixed on the lack of shakeups for healers. Once more, I've seen tons of people I know actually dropping healer whatsoever. Not because "muh strike", but because it's boring.

[Larom]

Okay. Considering Im the one who brought it up, and Did indeed mean its wider impact on the game ,and how *This* forum in particular seems to blow things out of proportion rather than how many people did or didn't hear about the strike. After all, I clearly heard about it. That wasn't my point. But You can have the win. it doesnt even matter to my overall point

You say "This forum" like there are any other forums that you can actively be in any way critical of XIV, lest you get dogpiled and labeled as a "Toxic hater". .

[HighlanderClone]

You say "This forum" like there are any other forums that you can actively be in any way critical of XIV, lest you get dogpiled and labeled as a "Toxic hater". .

4chan is very critical of the story too, although I'm not sure whether they're actually mad at the story or mad at this "Sweet Baby" thing I keep seeing.

/r/ffxivdiscussion is very critical of the story. You can see it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus...iscussion_hub/

/r/ffxiv is also mildly critical of the story, though it's more mixed: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...il_rises_to_a/

/r/MMORPG is critical. https://www.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/comm...ting_on_steam/

Steam is mixed. Dawntrail is at 60% right now.

GameFaqs is mixed and leans critical: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards...trail/80799642, https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards...trail/80800359

5ch is very critical: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus...dawntrail_msq/ (Although once again it's... 5chan).

Anecdotally I've also seen a lot of criticism in shout chat. On my Discord servers and in-game interactions it's also mixed to lean-critical.

Only Twitter is unabashedly positive about DT.

Here's the thing about people who say only the official forums are critical: they want to gaslight you into believing you are in an echo chamber. When really if you go on all kinds of different discussion hubs like I do you can clearly tell that it's a lie. The reception to this expansion is at best mixed right now. Once Metacritic goes live we'll see even more criticism.