I thought Dawntrail was going to be a grand adventure surrounded by friends

[Coratanni]

I'm still working on the MS, so I haven't experienced it all, but I think you might be forgetting something. This is supposed to be the start of a brand-new arc. Not merely a new expansion but an entirely new saga. I think this slow start is an echo (haha, echo) of how ARR began. I fully expect the story to crescendo.

I'm sorry you didn't get the epic adventure you were expecting, but remember that this truly is a new beginning, a foundation of what is to come. Honestly, I felt like Endwalker moved too fast with all the death and carnage smacking you in the face from the get-go, but that was the very end of a decade long ark while this is a much simpler beginning of a brand-new arc that will no doubt go on for several expansions. I'm eager to see where the game and characters go from here.

In short, give it some more time.

Alot of us are sick and tired of that excuse about "It's a brand new arc. Of course it's going to start off slow. It needs to cook."

Just stop with that. There are ways to start a new arc. To show a new area(which coincidently, is what every single expansion has done, though none so poorly as DT). The characters were flat. Mary Sue Wuk Lamat was terrible in every single way imagineable, and was forced down our throats 139 times, and the story was a mess. I didn't pre-order every expansion over the last 9 years, to enter someone's middle school fanfic.

[Shuuchi]

Alot of us are sick and tired of that excuse about "It's a brand new arc. Of course it's going to start off slow. It needs to cook."

Just stop with that. There are ways to start a new arc. To show a new area(which coincidently, is what every single expansion has done, though none so poorly as DT). The characters were flat. Mary Sue Wuk Lamat was terrible in every single way imagineable, and was forced down our throats 139 times, and the story was a mess. I didn't pre-order every expansion over the last 9 years, to enter someone's middle school fanfic.

The excuses used for DT are eerily similar to the ones used to run cover for Amazon’s Rings of Power.
Hope ff14 doesn’t end up the same.

[Fatch38]

I didn't pre-order every expansion over the last 9 years, to enter someone's middle school fanfic.

oh don't trashtalk fanfics, there are way better written ones than the whole DT, it's more like child books than fanfic. sometimes i feel like DT was totally made by AI (from story to gamedesign), it's the only excuse i can see.