The finale of the Arcadion is an absolute disapointment.

[Brandr]

"You know the thing you enjoy and had a good moment?
Well, I didn't like it!!!!
And you guys also shouldn't like it either and I'm here tell you why!"

[Aidorouge]

Obviously everyone that has brought it up has or they wouldn't even know it's related so this is a strange accusation. It's not exactly hard to watch it. You can literally lookup 1 or 2 segments of wrestling on YouTube and then start to get it. And a lot of people who play this are old enough to have seen it at some point in their life.

I'm not interested in wrestling though, and don't care to learn any of its history or terminology.

Not to say the writers are forbidden from making a storyline centered on wrestling and fans of said wrestling can't enjoy it, but it's a huge ask to expect everyone else outside of the wrestling fandom to care about that kind of thing or insist they need to go do research to understand what happened.

[SalamanderIX]

I thought the ending was incredibly good!

[Fawkes]

I was more disappointed that the gear is kinda just futuristic tech stuff and not like outfits with championship belts.

[Hyperia]

While I totally understand, accept and respect the opinions of others, I personally enjoyed the story and found it a satisfying conclusion.

[Oizen]

It was a very safe and return to status quo ending, very emblematic of 2025 XIV writing.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Performance-enhancing drugs.

That's what the souls were.

To make the story all cute bull@#$% really demeans the whole reason why we were there in the first place. It also takes a very serious topic and makes it nonsensical.

I hope these writers never touch the MSQ, ever.

[jadeharley]

OP is wrong, arcadion was amazing. Keep up the good work CS3!

[Daralii]

Performance-enhancing drugs.

That's what the souls were.

To make the story all cute bull@#$% really demeans the whole reason why we were there in the first place. It also takes a very serious topic and makes it nonsensical.

I hope these writers never touch the MSQ, ever.

They undermined that almost immediately when one of our first interactions with Black Cat was about the soul steroids just being part of their culture, so we can't pass judgment.

[Selsix]

The story was incredibly lame but also the difficulty was terrible. Why was M12 the easiest fight in the entire raid series? Even M1 was harder. My first time in M12 I didn't get clipped by even a single mechanic.

The reason none of the characters in the Arcadion end up being evil is because it is based on Professional Wrestling and that's how Professional Wrestling works. They are all good people in real life but some of them "play" evil characters known as heels.

Also why are people pretending everyone involved with wrestling is secretly a good person? Are we really going to pretend Vince McMahon isn't the scum of the Earth?