Regarding Anima (Endwalker Spoilers)

[Ultaniku]

Primals at the start of ARR: They're an existential threat to the star.....
Primals by the start of Endwalker: "But for me it was Tuesday".
The only primals worthy of a challenge by Endwalker are the 2 eldest of primals: "Challenge Accepted"

Oh, so we’re just out here being correct. This is pretty accurate.

[Warlyx]

Please read at your own risk, you have been warned!

I feel terribly whining about this, given how hard the dev team works, but I did want to make my thoughts on this known.

I am very upset and disappointed with the treatment of Anima in the Endwalker MSQ..

felt the same way about diabolos and fenrir

Endwalker 85 trial spoiler

Zodiark is LAME as hell too but at least we get the extreme

[Listrella]

what were they supposed to do, they could hardly give out what the trials were at fanfest, that would have been a major spoiler so they just gave us those two instead, they would have been cool trials I guess, but the trials we got were much better and far more plot relevant. It was kinda annoying in earlier expansions where trials fights were just forced into the plot just because there had to be one in there. Lakhsmi in stormblood was probably the worst offender, we had a real detour from the plot to force that primal fight in. Now anima maybe could have worked as a trial while still being worked into the plot but what we got instead was way better. Magus sisters were really not important enough to the plot to be a trial unfortunately, it would have been shoehorned in. I don't see anything wrong with them surprising us, we didn't get what we expected but we go something much better in exchange.

[Rinoslim]

I'm not playing for story.
We are only going to spend a very little time on the story (1/10) and 9/10 at down/farm the boss.
developing a plot in this game is for me wasted development time, and now is a wasted development time AND good boss for make that coherent ...
Like i said new trial is bad.
280 Days played time i wait for FFX trial, have just lost hope, already stoped the game
Thanks to Yoshida for respecting the final fantasy licenses only until the 7 and s**t on other one.

[Bruhai]

It sounds to me like you play xiv only for some ffx fan service which i hate to tell you is a waste of money. You should never go into a game for the sole purpose of cameos or fan service from other games.

[Neri]

Zodiark isn't orginal lol

For one you can summon him in ff12

I can't remember, which one is Zodiac in XII?

[Nihility]

I'm honestly surprised they randomly threw anima in at all.
this is the FF4 themed expansion so I was just 100% expecting the main story primal fights then the four fiends for expansion primals and if they really wanted to treat us a fight against all four of them to simulate the giant of babil encounter

[Ravor]

I Actually like this direction they are going with making anima simply passing by, cameo should not be the big part of the game, they make original final boss and it work, i rather they do that instead of relying too much on nostalgia, but thats my opinion

[CocoAthaela]

Still upset over this

[GTK0HLK]

can't be bothered to go through all the pages.., and it's likely someone had already stated this..,

But we got it like this cause of how the story went down.

It felt poetic to end the first arc of the story in this expac.
so they rushed what could of been an expansion Ala Stormblood<Including the expected Garlean Zones, and thavnair to a degree.> whilst there is faith in their storytelling higher than not.
It's possible they felt that it was either to expected, or didn't have much to it. asides expanding and going deeper into topics.
and then have to make the next expac either have a serious lack of new zones, or reuse old zones or add new zones to the same regions. [expanding on old unaccesable regions of old zones would be nice. but it isn't viable with how they story eventually leads. also defeats the points of us going for the throat/garlemald, rather than how Fan/Zen expected us to take our time in all Zones]

Had they done a "StormbloodII: Ilsabard"
we would probably had an extension and trials with those bosses, but then they'd have to have a large adjustment to the story as they had from the start. and adjustments to when we reach the moon.

A stretched out story with need to fill up the gaps.
or a condensed story down to its base contents/purest elements.

tldr:
Boils down to, do you want a game with a story that has a generally well praised story that doesn't have a need to fill gaps.

or a Fanservice expansion for only those who had a larger enjoyment of various FF games.<when the game itself like all other FFs, take from the past, and altered/changed in order to suit the story of today>

[A FF Theme park to all the Series, but with its own identity. Just like the Grandfather had stated.]