FFXIV Dawntrail reviews are out on Metacritic

[Hallarem]

My biggest takeaway from that whole debacle was that the same people that vehemently defend that VA was quick to throw Susan under the bus for things that had nothing to do with the game. Oh well, this is the reality we live in. Hypocrisy is okay as long as you have a backing big enough to deflect the "haters"~!

Fast forward to now, apparently our lore consultant or english consultant? Whatever her title is, was caught reposting on her account similar political things that the ex-singer allegedly got fired for, and her account was hacked I think?
While the new consultant quickly deleted her posts as she realized the backlash. The two of them reposted things from the opposite sides of the politics in America. Very unprofessional to do from your main account linked to your job, but okay. Guess they get to keep their job?

I will never get America, it's always Team this vs Team that, instead of what is good for EVERYONE.

[Raoabolic]

Fast forward to now, apparently our lore consultant or english consultant? Whatever her title is, was caught reposting on her account similar political things that the ex-singer allegedly got fired for, and her account was hacked I think?
While the new consultant quickly deleted her posts as she realized the backlash. The two of them reposted things from the opposite sides of the politics in America. Very unprofessional to do from your main account linked to your job, but okay. Guess they get to keep their job?

I will never get America, it's always Team this vs Team that, instead of what is good for EVERYONE.

Eh, I would say it's the loud minority from the west coast. It's like painting all of the EU as subscribing to the nonsense that is going on in the UK. That said, who gave these loud fools so much power?

[Hallarem]

Eh, I would say it's the loud minority from the west coast. It's like painting all of the EU as subscribing to the nonsense that is going on in the UK. That said, who gave these loud fools so much power?

Its kind of funny with this community, how every opposing view to everyones own point of view is a "vocal minority". But jokes aside, I think people have given the twitter mob a bit too much power. It's like a village fool shouting in the streets and everyone suddenly listens to their opinion like they are an expert. When they clearly have no credentials backing it up. People are way too tribalistic for their own good, its good to have your own nuanced opinions, if you are afraid your opinions will upset your friends ,they werent your friends to begin with.

[Raoabolic]

Its kind of funny with this community, how every opposing view to everyones own point of view is a "vocal minority".

*looks at the latest Lucky Bancho numbers*

I dunno, they might slowly be transforming into the majority since the smarter ones realized what was going on and jumped ship when the game jumped the shark, lol. (I will still never forgive the writers for introducing the concept of Dynamis and the devs for turning Qufim island into a freakin' hallway...)

[Hallarem]

*looks at the latest Lucky Bancho numbers*

I dunno, they might slowly be transforming into the majority since the smarter ones realized what was going on and jumped ship when the game jumped the shark, lol. (I will still never forgive the writers for introducing the concept of Dynamis and the devs for turning Qufim island into a freakin' hallway...)

EW was the downhill trend in lore and worldbuilding for me, yeah. Including dynamis. 8.0 will be my final limit if they make another toothless msq that is too afraid to tackle any serious subjects and goes too blatantly shonen-anime writing.

[Dikatis]

EW was the downhill trend in lore and worldbuilding for me, yeah. Including dynamis. 8.0 will be my final limit if they make another toothless msq that is too afraid to tackle any serious subjects and goes too blatantly shonen-anime writing.

The Shonen Anime writing has been there since 1.0 and 2.0. Shadowbringers was loaded with it with literally everyone on the continent coming together to take down Vauthry by sheer force of the Scions' charisma and willingness to help others. You're just being pretentious.

[CaptainLagbeard]

The Shonen Anime writing has been there since 1.0 and 2.0. Shadowbringers was loaded with it with literally everyone on the continent coming together to take down Vauthry by sheer force of the Scions' charisma and willingness to help others. You're just being pretentious.

I wouldn't compare DT to a shounen anime, at least not direction... 7.0 and 7.1 was more like a 4kids dub, with the quest stuff from 90 to 95 being just a filler arc.

[Hallarem]

The Shonen Anime writing has been there since 1.0 and 2.0. Shadowbringers was loaded with it with literally everyone on the continent coming together to take down Vauthry by sheer force of the Scions' charisma and willingness to help others. You're just being pretentious.

Oh in ARR it was very much visible with the nyahahah ascians and Gaius and more, the english voice acting didnt help much, not that the japanese voices made it any better.
After that they clearly went with writing for more mature audiences, and it worked, does it have some anime fling to it? Yes. But it doesnt have that dumb anime melodrama most shonen and anime in general has, its more subtle and well handled. In EW with the boingo boing sound effects, nearly ruining Y'shtola with their magical girl and clumsy scenes, so far that Yoshi P had to directly stop them from doing it. And Dawntrail? Eesh.

Maybe shonen-anime is the wrong word. Childish writing that tries to hook you in with surface-level morals is what I'm going for. The writing in parts of EW is not subtle while some of it is great, the dialogue is Dawntrail is slop and so is the writing.

[Sani2341]

EW was the downhill trend in lore and worldbuilding for me, yeah. Including dynamis. 8.0 will be my final limit if they make another toothless msq that is too afraid to tackle any serious subjects and goes too blatantly shonen-anime writing.

Tbf, they are tackling serious subjects. It's just that it's been the same ones three times in a row with progressively worse story telling.