Are we destroying "our own" game?

[Rekh]

Honestly, a lot of it is anecdotal - I've had the opposite experience, where I've had a lot of people in game complaining about it! At the end of the day I don't think anybody can deny that this expansion had a mixed reception, no matter what you think of it.

They've all had mixed reception in north america when it's not catered to hollywood-type narrative (shadowbringers) or medieval castles in europe (heavensward). Fortunately square enix understands that they can't just make heavensward part 2, 3, 4, 5 in every expansion and is attempting to give a new experience instead.

Dawntrail was like Stormblood; "mixed" reception in north america mostly but overall a high quality msq with great story and narrative objectively.

[Isala]

They've all had mixed reception in north america when it's not catered to hollywood-type narrative (shadowbringers) or medieval castles in europe (heavensward). Fortunately square enix understands that they can't just make heavensward part 2, 3, 4, 5 in every expansion and is attempting to give a new experience instead.

Dawntrail was like Stormblood; "mixed" reception in north america mostly but overall a high quality msq with great story and narrative objectively.

I don't know why you feel the need to claim that it's only NA having issues with DT. You should see some of the absolute bile that JP is slinging at this joke of an expansion. I wish I could be as creative as the JP side is with their DT insults. It's absolutely a treat to read.

[PercibelTheren]

Dawntrail was like Stormblood; "mixed" reception in north america mostly but overall a high quality msq with great story and narrative objectively.

First of all, you may want to look up what the word "objectively" means because you clearly have no idea. A story being good is most definitely not something objective because people will have subjective opinions on it.

Also, the reception hasn't been tepid just on NA. I play on EU and there has been maybe one person in my FC who really enjoyed the MSQ. The rest fall between "meh" and "that was bad". The zone chats, at least on Zodiark, during early access were full of people complaining about how bad the story was and mocking the really ridiculous plot holes.

I can't speak for other regions, but I think it might be time to stop trying to blame NA for everything.

[Rekh]

First of all, you may want to look up what the word "objectively" means because you clearly have no idea. A story being good is most definitely not something objective because people will have subjective opinions on it.

Also, the reception hasn't been tepid just on NA. I play on EU and there has been maybe one person in my FC who really enjoyed the MSQ. The rest fall between "meh" and "that was bad". The zone chats, at least on Zodiark, during early access were full of people complaining about how bad the story was and mocking the really ridiculous plot holes.

I can't speak for other regions, but I think it might be time to stop trying to blame NA for everything.

Correction.
When I say NA I mean EU as well; there's barely any difference in opinion between the two regions when it comes to anything related to xiv. I'm just applying square enix practice, the same way they forget about eu when doing campaigns and other things for non-japanese audiences.

No need to get your butt all twisted, it's all standard practice.