Quote Originally Posted by TemporalFruitsAndVeggies View Post
This just sounds like total conspiracy theory. Of course you have a bunch of vague reasons as to why you can't reveal who you think "meddled" and why, just like every conspiracy theorist about every topic. What "heck to pay" will there be? Will SE lose your $15 a month until you come inexorably crawling back for 8.0? Oh dear.

Basically every long-running story has had sub-par chapters, across all media, for all of time. This isn't even FFXIV's first, lol.
They're probably blaming the specter of "Woke" "DEI" consulting firms or something, just guessing from what I've seen the conspiracy folks around the forums say since DT dropped.

I seriously disliked Dawntrail and was shocked at how incompetent of a story and world it built, but I don't think it has anything to do with Sweet Baby Inc. or whatever company is in people's crosshairs that isn't even confirmed to have worked on the game. I think it's the usual mundane suspects when a project like this goes wrong: bad management and corporate financial decisions on Square Enix's part, shuffling former writers and devs into other projects and leaving FFXIV with less staff and budget.