What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Vyrerus]

Zepla Owning Your Own Planet Vid

Cute Zepla vid where she reads some more interviews where the devs basically admit to winging it the whole time with the narrative, and not trying to connect the dots until Shadowbringers...

Smells more to me like, SHB pull such high numbers that, that became their go to line. I don't feel like they carried much of the rest of the game forward in Endwalker. It was just the conclusion to SHB's storyline, more or less, and SHB itself did not bring everything forward.

They trashed a lot of the game, and relied on the newbies brought in, in SHB, to honeymoon up the numbers and carry Endwalker's sales and reputation.

It bothers me severely that newbies with no long term investment get to drown out folks who'd been invested since day one. That a lot of the lore, villains, side characters, and areas get sidelined or destroyed completely in service of the new narrative.

Just gonna be a lot of things we never get closure for now, and they're just gonna continue winging it, because why not? Ugh.

[Swordsman]

Zepla Owning Your Own Planet Vid

Cute Zepla vid where she reads some more interviews where the devs basically admit to winging it the whole time with the narrative, and not trying to connect the dots until Shadowbringers...

Just gonna be a lot of things we never get closure for now, and they're just gonna continue winging it, because why not? Ugh.

Well there's no surprise there. When the director of the game, Yoshi P, responds to questions about lore during the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXVIII by saying things like "when you're making this world you'll just sort of sometimes ignore things that are inconvenient" and "I didn't actually imagine anybody would ask this" or "wow, you guys are paying close attention to this game," you definitely question how much care and thought (or lack of) went into creating the story. The fact that the devs came out and basically admitted to winging it the whole time with the narrative is not very astonishing to me lol.