Quote Originally Posted by White_Devil View Post
We really shouldn't be taking the words of ecelebrities as gospel because our talking heads are fundamentally unreliable compared to forming our own opinions as individuals.

Zepla's been punching down on Endwalker because at the time everyone was making 'I QUIT' videos left and right and it seemed like the hot new thing to get in on, she's also been trying to imitate Asmongold since he pretty much dipped out when people wouldn't let him do his own thing.
As another example, Arthars doesn't give a damn about FFXIV's story or anything outside the realm of hardcore content, yet he's going on twitter and defending DT MSQ because everyone else is saying it's bad.
We have a grifter through and through weighing his opinion on DT MSQ and qqing about it being 'woke' despite the fact that he doesn't play.

All of these people care only about your clicks, they want a good harvest for their engagement farm.

Don't like or hate something because someone else said it was good/bad, that just makes you miserable.
I absolutely am not. I am crestfallen with DT's MSQ.

My point is - people watching will. Look at what Asom did for the popularity of the game, it was the single biggest influx in the playerbase that has ever occurred. Some of that can be COVID related, but he had a genuine impact. Whether you like it or not, these voices matter, regardless of whether they should.

DT has just given content creators reams of ammunition to meme and cut down the game... Because it's partly deserved. I'm hoping DT will be Stormblood 2.0, where the MSQ didn't set the world on fire but the volume and quality of post-launch content will be the defining measure of the expansion, and I sort of believe it will, but right now we have the MSQ, the jobs, and the battle content as the primary levers to measure the game from - two of those really have been letdowns.