Honestly, What's the verdict for you?

[Granyala]

Overall I still like DT but I find myself logging in a lot less.
Part of the reason is that my buddies are mostly raidlogging and I have retired some years ago. Playing on my own with randoms isn't as much fun.
Another part is that (gut feeling) the time between patches has increased significantly. You get a short burst of content and then, unless you raid, you just do nothing for half a year.

I am in the apparent minority, as I liked the DT storyline. I am not an FF buff, only ever played VII, VIII and X, so I don't recognize many references from the others. The story proposed interesting concepts and thoughts.
Albeit fundamentally flawed on a logic level: even if they drain all shards of aether, an ever growing population of endless WILL run out of energy to sustain them. They'd need a different form of energy that is available in overabundance, e.g.: a Dyson Sphere, harnessing the energy of a sun, to really make it work long term. That AI-Sphene refuses to even consider this possibility and notice the stop-gap nature of her plan is a huge fail of the writing team.

I'm totally digging the sci-fi visuals of the Alexandrians Just wish the game had proper RTX. Imagine Solution 9 with real time reflections!

Content seems the same-ol same-ol, it's just that the longer I do not raid the less I care about the gear hamster wheel.
Especially as a healer where you barely feel these upgrades. I750 or I720 ... doesn't make a lick of difference unless you venture into Savage.

[Astronema]

Overall I still like DT but I find myself logging in a lot less.
Part of the reason is that my buddies are mostly raidlogging and I have retired some years ago. Playing on my own with randoms isn't as much fun.
Another part is that (gut feeling) the time between patches has increased significantly. You get a short burst of content and then, unless you raid, you just do nothing for half a year.

I am in the apparent minority, as I liked the DT storyline. I am not an FF buff, only ever played VII, VIII and X, so I don't recognize many references from the others. The story proposed interesting concepts and thoughts.
Albeit fundamentally flawed on a logic level: even if they drain all shards of aether, an ever growing population of endless WILL run out of energy to sustain them. They'd need a different form of energy that is available in overabundance, e.g.: a Dyson Sphere, harnessing the energy of a sun, to really make it work long term. That AI-Sphene refuses to even consider this possibility and notice the stop-gap nature of her plan is a huge fail of the writing team.

I'm totally digging the sci-fi visuals of the Alexandrians Just wish the game had proper RTX. Imagine Solution 9 with real time reflections!

Content seems the same-ol same-ol, it's just that the longer I do not raid the less I care about the gear hamster wheel.
Especially as a healer where you barely feel these upgrades. I750 or I720 ... doesn't make a lick of difference unless you venture into Savage.

I hate the wasted color aesthetics of s9 overused purples and blues to offload the golds and yellow of living memory which we turned from lovely into Detroit... I'd rather s9 and living memory has reversed aesthetics and that would actually match the story better.