The Negative Impact of Poor Character Writing on the Quality of Dawntrail's MSQ

[Icycrits]

That is this expansion in a nutshell. You're so fatigued with the mundane that by the time you get to the fun parts you just have no attachment. I mindlessly clicked through half of the dialogue with Wuk Evu as well before my ears perked up and I realized, "wait a minute, I actually really like this character."

[duckorz]

That is this expansion in a nutshell. You're so fatigued with the mundane that by the time you get to the fun parts you just have no attachment. I mindlessly clicked through half of the dialogue with Wuk Evu as well before my ears perked up and I realized, "wait a minute, I actually really like this character."

I honestly haven't even really logged in since I finished and I don't even know if I care to redeem my full release code. I looked forward to this for months, took time off for it, and I didn't expect to just want to do literally anything else but play FFXIV by the end of it.

[Brotillian]

I honestly haven't even really logged in since I finished and I don't even know if I care to redeem my full release code. I looked forward to this for months, took time off for it, and I didn't expect to just want to do literally anything else but play FFXIV by the end of it.

I think you can still find other things to look forward to in the game, like the upcoming exploration zones, raids, side stories etc. I wouldn't consider the game dead unless Yoshi P comes out and says that the guys who wrote this expac's msq got promotions or would be continuing the story into 7.x and beyond. If that happens I'll pack it up. But til then I'm just going go with the assumption that this is a weak point and the devs will be able to pivot and actually deliver on the potential of the interesting aspects of this setting.

I maintain they should have killed most of the Scions in EW - or at least made the disbandment real. The only ones who have any character development to explore are G'raha and Y'shtola at this point. The rest should be cameos at most. We are at fucking Kingdom Hearts levels of flanderization, bringing back fan favorite characters just to say their fanservice lines like "I'm an expert firewood gatherer! (please laugh)", because there's nothing else left to say about them.

Just killing off characters you don't know how to write for is as amateurish as Wuk Lamat's writing. There is plenty of interesting things they can do with the Scions, you just have to give them to a decent writer.

[ThorneDynasty]

It's not even that hard to fix that scene. Right after the camera zooms on WoL's faces, have her immediately run after Wuk Lamat - Make it just a split second lapse of judgement of letting her run off, having her end up kidnapped anyway despite WoL immediately taking measures. Instead they made the Scions look like absolute morons.

[Voidmage]

That is this expansion in a nutshell. You're so fatigued with the mundane that by the time you get to the fun parts you just have no attachment. I mindlessly clicked through half of the dialogue with Wuk Evu as well before my ears perked up and I realized, "wait a minute, I actually really like this character."

That was my expirience also. At the end I was left so defeated that I just clicked the dialogue away everytime Wuk Lamat sproke.
Then I had a couple of points in the last zone where I was like "wait, that stuff is actually kinda inter- nevermind, Wuk Lamat's face is on screen again".

It's just sad. There was potential here and there like, as in OP's post the Graha talk or Kriles parents but the negative far outweight the positive.

Every time Wuk Lamat was zoomed in on my screen I had to look away at the end.

Funny anectode:
At the last boss I was so shocked by her appeareance that i just typed "not her again" and got a lot of player recommendations. Maybe that was because of my stupid gameplay but I want to believe otherwise. xD

[Hirofuji]

That is this expansion in a nutshell. You're so fatigued with the mundane that by the time you get to the fun parts you just have no attachment. I mindlessly clicked through half of the dialogue with Wuk Evu as well before my ears perked up and I realized, "wait a minute, I actually really like this character."

I've had the same experience. By the time I finished the MSQ I had such a bitter taste in my mouth & was so disaffected that I just didn't want to touch the game again. I just closed out of the game and haven't opened it back up since. I liked the dungeons & trials, but when the story was this offensively bad, it makes you not even want to play the game. I have 7,000 hours in this game and I couldn't even force myself to do a single run of the expert dungeons. Every aspect of the expansion has been tainted for me.