Quote Originally Posted by Havenchild View Post
The fact that they even could salvage 1.0 is amazing and SB proves my point though. SB received the EXACT complaints DT has and probably even worse (general consensus on forums was people didn't like EITHER Ala Mhigo or Orthard). Forget Lyse versus Wuk Lamat, MOST people here and in-game hated Lyse. We are not about to try and rewrite history to try and engage the hate parade for DT. The only saving grace of SB at the time was battle design of raids and after a time but not initially, job balance. For jobs specifically, several people had issues with how they neutered everyone's kits especially the removal of synergy throughout the jobs. It was only during the Kefka raiding era that SB really started coming into its own with battle content, story MSQ and job balance that everyone more fondly refers to. 6.0 overall is reflected on extremely well in the community including the 6.X series. If you are consistently only on the forums, then yeah you would not get that feeling cause these forums are toxic af and ONLY trend negative.
SB reviewed, even at its release, far better than DT among both users and critics. Most common issues of DT dragging down the score is the story and Wuk. People hated Lyse, but we were not attached to the hip of her like we are Wuk despite being the focus, and Lyse actually had failures and wasn't forced to be loved. She ultimately had to earn her leadership position through failures and even at the end she wasn't beloved by her people. Wuk on the other hand leads us around like we are a little puppy dog and everyone just universally likes her, able to reverse potentially centuries of xenophobic cult like behavior with simple speeches. We aren't even allowed to be indifferent to her as the few time we get options to respond in such a way, another pipes in saying that the WoL doesn't actual feel such.