Yoshi P - Your next live letter, DT msq and the damage to the brand

[Malthir]

Again man, it's your opinion. I liked Sphene a lot, I liked Meteion, but back when EW was out idk if you'll recall how many people said they shoehorned her into the story, and I had to defend her the same way I have to defend Sphene. If you didn't like that's okay, it's okay not to like it, but it's a stretch to say it was universally disliked.



Damn that's a long post.

Yes it is long, but can you see the concept of an objective critique vs a subjective critique now?

It being poorly written doesn't mean you can't enjoy it personally. Soap opera's are generally incredibly poorly written but they are still watched by many people. The concept of this damaging the brand was about the fact that FF14's brand image is a well written story and whether you can stomach the story or not on a personal level no one can justifiably say that this was well written, which in turn damages the brand identity. Now when the post patches come out they might be able to salvage some of this and mitigate that damage. If they don't, it risks being a serious detriment to the health of the game.