How many people are excited for Endwalker?

[Theodric]

The warrior of darkness was duped into his acts by the acians. They never said you would be turning evil anywhere that I found. So no plot hole there. The WoD even comes back and tells you he was wrong so.. where is the deception?

Besides this thread is about Endwalker and I am excited for this stories ending and all the other things it contains.

We've consistently been told that Light and Dark do not translate into good and evil.

Despite that, we didn't get the opportunity to make use of darkness in any meaningful way - just Light, again. It becomes rather bland after a while.

The story also bends over backwards to insist that the conflicts we involve ourselves in are not a matter of good or evil but rather a matter of perspective. Which means that the player character would not necessarily be 'evil' for engaging in morally grey acts.

If the story intends to elevate itself in my eyes, it would do well to move away from the excessive hero worship. It doesn't help that the content with the most grey morality, namely Bozja, has been cut for the foreseeable future.

Shadowbringers didn't really have high stakes as far as I'm concerned. We dealt with two of the game's major antagonists without them securing a single victory of note. Not even a single minor, throwaway character perished at their hands - so the expansion, despite the marketing, failed at being 'gritty'.

Given that the premise of Endwalker is a return of a literal apocalypse...well, hopefully we see some meaningful consequences this time around and not just consequences for the antagonists. Many people follow the story for their sake, after all and as we've seen from FFVIIR, it's possible to write a story in such a way as to ensure that the antagonists are written intelligently and don't just fall into each and every trap placed within their path.