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

[Palladiamors]

That kidnapping scene was so hilariously badly done that I just have to laugh at it. WE COULD SEE THE TOWN FROM WHERE WE WERE STANDING. We knew there were bandits in the area and no one went with her? At that point Wuk had fought much , much worse than bandits, hadn't we literally already polished off Skyruin there?

This is entry level writing at best and that might be a stretch. Maybe don't give the reins of your story heavy RPG to a novice fanfiction writer, yea?

[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.

[duckorz]

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 expert firewood gatherer! (please laugh)", because there's nothing else left to say about them.

They could have been totally fine, and a pretty intriguing presence in Tural (wtf happened to the Scion conflict between candidates, lol?) if a better writer handled them. I was looking forward to some real ideological tension that easily could have been compelling. As is plainly obvious with Wuk Lamat, Zoraal Ja, and Sphene; new characters aren't going to be written any better, either.

[ThorneDynasty]

That kidnapping scene was so hilariously badly done that I just have to laugh at it. WE COULD SEE THE TOWN FROM WHERE WE WERE STANDING. We knew there were bandits in the area and no one went with her? At that point Wuk had fought much , much worse than bandits, hadn't we literally already polished off Skyruin there?

This is entry level writing at best and that might be a stretch. Maybe don't give the reins of your story heavy RPG to a novice fanfiction writer, yea?

Not only that, WoL has been multiple times been implied to be traumatized by witnessing that "assassination" of Nanamo. She should be hyper-protective of Wuk Lamat. And the camera has the fucking gall to zoom in on our face as she watches another young heiress wander off alone with a suspicious stranger - Is that doubt we are supposed to interpret on her face? No. The game makes you wait around doing fucking nothing three times before the thought hits our character's head that the contender for one of the largest empires in the world maybe might be a target.

[duckorz]

That kidnapping scene was so hilariously badly done that I just have to laugh at it. WE COULD SEE THE TOWN FROM WHERE WE WERE STANDING. We knew there were bandits in the area and no one went with her? At that point Wuk had fought much , much worse than bandits, hadn't we literally already polished off Skyruin there?

This is entry level writing at best and that might be a stretch. Maybe don't give the reins of your story heavy RPG to a novice fanfiction writer, yea?

That's an insult to fanfiction writers for this game. I earnestly think that 99% of them could have done better. It takes genuine, auter-level talent to write something this spectacularly bad.

[KylePearlsand]

Not only that, WoL has been multiple times been implied to be traumatized by witnessing that "assassination" of Nanamo. She should be hyper-protective of Wuk Lamat. And the camera has the fucking gall to zoom in on our face as she watches another young heiress wander off alone with a suspicious stranger - Is that doubt we are supposed to interpret on her face? No. The game makes you wait around doing fucking nothing three times before the thought hits our character's head that the contender for one of the largest empires in the world maybe might be a target.

Heck, she pretty much hired us to be her bodyguard. As much as I hate to say it, this is the one time we probably should have went with her while not taking no for an answer.

[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.

[duckorz]

Heck, she pretty much hired us to be her bodyguard. As much as I hate to say it, this is the one time we probably should have went with her while not taking no for an answer.

Gulool Ja Ja literally told us, one level prior, to look after his daughter. I'm sorry sir we have horribly failed

[ShariusTC]

i laughed my ass off when we are in wild west map, there is bandit den and i was given 2 option to choice, once is just storm the den and massacre everyone, other is find a way around, then game just dimissed my choice said we would have trouble with law, then sent me go and collect bird poops, for real, we are in lawless wild west ffs, which kind of law want to deal with a walking nuke

[Rannie]

i want to know who decided to rewrite stormblood, ShB and endwalker while adding in a dash of The matrix with a different (not good) twist and actually thought it would be good as well as include a completely and overly annoying character in it... (serious about the matrix bit... people are literally using souls as batteries to keep themselves alive while the memories go into basically a vr recreation of a world)....