Quote Originally Posted by Voidmage View Post
I actually did encounter them. I had two dungeon runs were the story was a negative topic.
Granted it was only two but most of my runs have either no discussion at all or a comment about the new dungeons themself normally not about the story tbh.
It’s just anectodal evidence though.

In the end it’s all just personal opinion and I‘m happy for those who liked the story.
But as someone who has read the forum in the past quietly I have to say that the negative opinions are faster and more this time then before, both in the english and Japanese threads.
Anytime you change a story from being central based on your character and then move it to where we are maybe 4th in the story people will complain. Gamers in general have Main Character Syndrome where if it doesn't revolve around them no one else can have fun or enjoy it. This expansion is about Wuk Lamat, her people, and how her and her brothers grow and we are just a sidekick really there for moral support. A lot of people will not like that because it makes it feel like they are taking a back seat to a npc and if its not about them they could care less. Frankly after playing through EW with it always being world ending disaster that we must save all about us and how we have to stop it and how we need to this and do that i enjoyed the 1st half of this expansion. It was nice to not be the central focus relax a bit, immersing myself in my player im sure he would have loved it "thank god finally something simple i can do as an adventurer without having to save the world". Will everyone like that no.....but that doesn't make writing bad or expansion bad that we aren't the protagonist.