Quote Originally Posted by Xirean View Post
EW was advertised as the end AND the answers.
Exactly. We were deprived of so much lore and for what? Moon bunnies? Labyrinthos? A cutscene designed to elevate Venat rather than depict an accurate series of events? It's sad that we learned more about the sundering in the NieR crossover than in Endwalker.

I would make a list of everything we still don't know, but I think the shorter list would be what we do know. It's causing fans to have to fill in the blanks with with speculation because a lot of time was spent on arguably unimportant things rather than the fundamental history of the world.

Quote Originally Posted by Brinne View Post
It's not as though I had no dissonance towards elements of FFXIV's plot before EW - I just didn't feel they were egregious enough for me to log onto these forums and start ranting my head off until the Hydaelyn stuff.
I can agree with that. I was uncomfortable with parts of SB (I'm extremely adverse to pressuring people to do things they don't want to do which was 4.0 in a nutshell), but nothing I couldn't move past (forge ahead :P). In fact, describing 4.0 to someone else I couldn't help but laugh about it. EW was a whole other level though and, depending on the subject, I will launch into a rage-fueled rant. As Lurina mentioned once, I felt I wasn't ethically on the same page as the writers. The lack of dialog options combined with the dissonance between how I was feeling and how my character was reacting was just too much. The Scions breaking character consistency to side with someone who embodies everything they have historically opposed didn't help either.