Unpopular Opinions: 5.0 Edition

[Melorie]

Honestly, I'm not very excited for the new 24-man-raid. I loved Ivalice raids! They were my favorites so far, but I find the Nier Automata aesthetic meh, specially in a FFXIV setting.
Also Minfilia again, seriously? Poor Thancred.

I think that the lore seems sooo confused atm. I kinda miss HW where the story had a very clear setting and it was more linear, it ended up being my fav expac story-wise. While stormblood wasn't bad, the less focused we were on Ala Mhigo, the weaker the plot was imo. I liked Doma but I feel like the main plot was way more weak than HW.

I hope they don't go for some non-sense route plot-wise, I hate when jRPGs go that way. It usually only leads to confusing and poor writing.

Viera is eh. Not going to consider changing races until we get another cute and small race that's not on the "cute skimpy anime girl" department.

[Dualgunner]

Gunbreaker looks like some amalgamation of PLD/DRK, and unless they are really creative, ammo is just gonna be Dark Arts wearing bullets. If that happens, then another slashing sword tank is a terrible waste of potential for Gunbreaker.

[Cerbolt]

I'd rather they worked on the races we've already got than adding new ones. I'd take more face options over the viera any day.

[Cidel]

Yeah, so far even less impressed with this SB expansion than the last SB.

I'd rather they worked on the races we've already got than adding new ones. I'd take more face options over the viera any day.

Viera are boring and a waste of resources.

Agreed on both counts. When I look at the ones in the preview, I just see Highlander faces on Elezen figures with longer hair options and rabbit ears slapped on. And it's in all likelihood going to be their excuse for not giving more (if any) customization options for the other races yet again.

Gunbreaker falls wholly in the "meh" territory for me. Slapped MCH-esque AF on a gunblade-wielding job, called it a tank, and done.

I'm sure the NieR-inspired alliance raid excites some people, but it's only implying to me that dev team is running dry on their own creativity and is resorting to shoehorning/fanservice, backed-up by their whole 4.0 raid tiers and "new" race.

[briarth0rn]

I don't really care how out-of-place the NieR raid is in this setting, I think it looks like it'll be a lot of fun. I don't take my WoL's canon so seriously that I'll say no to them going on a weird bullet hell adventure with cute robot girls.

[Hazmick]

I have no doubt that the Nier raid series will be fantastic, but I agree with everyone who asks for more original FFXIV content. More unique characters, more unique storylines, more unique everything. I want to be excited by the actual content, and not by the thing it's referencing from a different game/series.

[MagiusNecros]

Viera are bland and uninspired, new tank class is not needed since they can't balance the ones they have already, and the game is becoming more fanservicey then ever and is lacking in original content. Plus with the way they handled BLU I wager Gunbreaker or Squall Leonhart the Job Class will be met with extreme scrutiny.

[Beckett]

Honestly the more unpopular opinion right now seems to be that I'm looking forward to the new 24-man raid, and I'm 100% okay with it not being FF-based.

[MagiusNecros]

Honestly the more unpopular opinion right now seems to be that I'm looking forward to the new 24-man raid, and I'm 100% okay with it not being FF-based.

The raid is probably the only good thing about the expansion. >_>

Even if only for the music alone.

[Renato]

Honestly the more unpopular opinion right now seems to be that I'm looking forward to the new 24-man raid, and I'm 100% okay with it not being FF-based.

Not really. The FFXIV reddit has over 600+ comments about the Nier Raid. Most seem to be fairly positive and the negative comments or people who don't want anything to do with it have gotten downvoted.

I started a FB thread in a FFXIV group and a large majority of people seem to want it as well. I didn't know that this was something people had been asking for.