Please, no more Wuk Lamat

[MicahZerrshia]

I have been playing this game since 1.0 and never skipped a cs on my main and rarely on my alts and by the time Wuk took me to the aetheryte at around the lvl 94ish mark and started yapping on about peace and happiness I skipped my very first cs ever. I just could not take it anymore. And I have skipped every cs where she has appeared since and will continue to do so. I also just leave when I get Sphene's Burdan in roulette because she even ruins that fight for us with her insistant need for attention. If she even appears in the 8.0 trailer or presentations it will solidify my not buying the new expac.

The story overall killed this game for me and Wuk pretty much was the story with as much as she kept butting her nose into absolutely everything. I cannot justify playing the game when both content and story are as weak as they are in this expac and while I am willing to give XIV one last shot before I go full WoW, that shot will be ruined if that stupid cat rears her ugly face yet again.

[Alicie]

I just need to be able pretend this was all some terrible nightmare.

A nightmare that I wished I could refund.

Dawntrail was not even worth 10$ and they still keep trying to shove this terrible character down my throat. Like please just leave me be. I can't understand their attachment to using wuk lamat.

No lie when I saw her in the patch note cs screen I was just like "ugh of course she's still here. Maybe I don't want to play this patch after all"

Entire expansion together with all patches are pre-written and nobody's going to change them no matter how badly players cry. When 7.0 is released, team is already working on 8.0+.

So chances are big that first half of 8.0 will also be tightly intertwined with Wuk as well. Get ready.

[Cynric]

Entire expansion together with all patches are pre-written and nobody's going to change them no matter how badly players cry. When 7.0 is released, team is already working on 8.0+.

So chances are big that first half of 8.0 will also be tightly intertwined with Wuk as well. Get ready.

Honestly if she's in 8.0 I won't buy it.

But its clear by looking at the later patch stories that they've already been "making up" reasons for Wuk Lamat to just not be on screen. The pushback on the character was across multiple regions. I'm not particularly concerned, and like I said if for some reason they were to really double down on her in 8.0, I just wouldn't buy it and that would be that. After how bad the Dawntrail story was I pretty much only subscribe to keep my house anyway.

So, I liked her at first, but the longer the story went on, the more annoying she became, to the point I let out a groaning 'please no..' when we got to Solution 9. Then there is the whole 'peace peace peace peace " mantra wherever we go. The Dawntrail trial was fun..until she pushed her way in. During Patch 7.1 I think, there was a nice emotional scene between friends/family members talking about if one will be welcome back after leaving Solution 9... Then she shows up, record scratch on the music, whiplash on the emotional part to comedy about tacos.

She overstayed her welcome FAST. That's the big issue I see with her as a whole. There was no chance to step away and breathe, and let us be us. I said as much in a review I did for the expac last year.

Like I didn't like her in prepatch, but I was willing to give her a shot, but then they shoved her down my throat so much that by the end I was wishing I'd never actually bought the game. Then they went and ruined the final trial for me with the interruption and she pretty much solidified her spot as my most disliked video game character of all time.

I think if they would've just stopped using her so much then I might've at least been able to put up with it a little bit. But alas, she has more lines in a single expansion than other characters have had in over 10 years of dialogue. She also somehow made all the characters around her into worse versions of themselves.

Heck, honestly if I could've at least had the final trial to myself without her interruption that made zero sense at all, then I would've at least had that little bit of fun, and maybe I would've been not so annoyed.

[Reimmi]

Just cut her screentime down by like 90%
She wouldn't have been so bad if she wasn't the entire plot of dawntrail

[Maltothoris]

I remember finding something interesting about the patches. Here was the article https://www.thegamer.com/final-fanta...ole-patch-7-3/

The one thing that I remember was this.

He also tells me that Patch 7.1 through 7.3 were already written only a month after Dawntrail launched, so these plot points were decided well in advance of when we see them unfold on the screen.

So the only things we can assume with this is that Wuk probably had a bigger part in these patches but after the release, they did what they could to reduce her presence after that.

However you only get one first impression and I just didn't care anymore after she appeared in 90 of the 100 Dawntrial MSQ quests.

[Thaciscokidd]

She wouldn't have been so bad if she wasn't the entire plot of dawntrail

She could have been but she seemed to go from strength to strength.

Wuk would of been fine if she had a more non linear way to power or a noticeable flaw with consequences. Koana had his whole system of beliefs turned upside down when he slowly started the realize that tech wasn't the solution to every persons problem and the whole story of the rise, fall, and slowly rerising of Bakool Ja Ja kinda dances circles around Wuk's story.

Its like they tooked Lyse's story and took away all the hurt and struggles she went through and presented it as Wuk Lamat's story.

[DiaDeem]

[Darko]

It's not dislike for the character, it's overexposure to the character. She's there all the time, even when it doesn't make sense for her to be there. Koana was suited for Solution 9 and all the 7.1-7.5 patches, not her. She should be in Tuliyollal and Koana should be with us.

Makes me afraid for 8.0. I've never been so bored and stunned at the awful quality of the writing during an expansion as I have from 7.0-7.3.

[Hyperia]

Another problem I have with Wuk is that the character always took the safe way out and always magically avoided any bad side effects of their actions. There were several times where I was like, oh boy, here it comes, finally some conflict and then.. nope, safety check and all is good. There were absolutely no danger, risks or threats until Alexandria arrived and even then, we were always on safety rails where they always took the safe way out, to the point where it made the story terribly predictable and boring.

[Drimn]

"Hi i am a Hrothgar Female which travels over an entire ocean even though i am sea sick very easily to ask the WOL if he helps me seize the throne of my Country which i do not know in the slightest even though i have no idea if he/she will agree.
Not to mention my personality of a 10 year old."

Yeah no i can't find anything to appreciate her. She has no buisness trying to get that throne her Miqo Brother is much better suited for.

Then, at some point around Origenics in the MSQ, she talks about how she's never been to Sharlayan and wants to visit someday. She's an idiot. And there were plenty of points in the story to show that empathy that everyone in the story seems to pretend she has, but instead she just makes it about herself again. And for whatever reason, the Scions seem to think she's the best thing to happen to the planet. She comes off as someone that's way more interested in the idea of people and being a good person than someone interested in people or being a good person. There's no contrition, there's no clue-by-four to the face like Alphinaud gets with the Crystal Braves to nudge her away from it, we're just supposed to nod and grin while she acts foolish and selfish. This is half of 7.0 and there's enough of it to put her just below Alphinaud in words said since 2.0 despite only being part of one expac.

I don't have anything wrong with writing someone that claims to have this deep interest and love in people around them, only to find out that their interest is self-serving, or they're more interested in the idea of being a people person than the people themselves. There are plenty of people out there like that. Just don't have everyone else in the story buy in. There's no way all of the Scions would be that dumb, especially Krile, who gets a keyhole through the fourth wall like you do.

I watched a video that posits Wuk Lamat was created later in development and retrofitted as Koana's replacement... and my god, it really is convincing

The seasickness, the intolerance to spicy food, the ignorance of her own culture and peoples, etc etc
These are traits that fit Koana REALLY well (having been in Sharlayan for so long) and they don't fit Wuk at all (who's supposed to have been in Tural her entire life alongside her father who is THE LITERAL DAWNSERVANT. HOW did her father not mentor her on the different cultures of Tural?)

She doesn't work because it wasn't her story to begin with. They basically put a character with a completely different personality in the same role at some point in DT's planning

This is the video I'm talking about btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjpxJV6_8Ic

It makes sense, but we're talking about a studio that said "People loved Shadowbringers' story so let's speedrun our way through the end", so who knows whether or not that actually happened, or if this is just what people originally thought, competent people being promoted into hands-off position with incompetent people taking their place, and upper leadership getting bored to the point that quality control slips.