The future

[NegativeS]

Spoiler?

The entire expansion before Ultima Thule, it felt like they were doing the whole "1 day before retirement" thing with Thancred. Then when you got to Ultima Thule and he was desynthesized by Meteion I was like "man, I saw that coming."

But he didn't actually die!

And you KNEW he didn't actually die because the Scions just brushed it off like it was nothing!

SE has some good writers, but man they are clueless when it comes to dramatic tension or character deaths. I think Haurchefant was the last character I was actually worried about, and his death STILL took me by surprise. What happened to the people who wrote Heavensward? Are they safe?

Basically, if they're going to do something like that in the future, either go all in, or don't go at all. I'm tired of being baited by the idea of never having to listen to Alphinaud again, only for him to be macguffined back into existence.

/10char

[Kozh]

Spoiler?

The entire expansion before Ultima Thule, it felt like they were doing the whole "1 day before retirement" thing with Thancred. Then when you got to Ultima Thule and he was desynthesized by Meteion I was like "man, I saw that coming."

But he didn't actually die!

And you KNEW he didn't actually die because the Scions just brushed it off like it was nothing!

SE has some good writers, but man they are clueless when it comes to dramatic tension or character deaths. I think Haurchefant was the last character I was actually worried about, and his death STILL took me by surprise. What happened to the people who wrote Heavensward? Are they safe?

Basically, if they're going to do something like that in the future, either go all in, or don't go at all. I'm tired of being baited by the idea of never having to listen to Alphinaud again, only for him to be macguffined back into existence.

/10char

HW writer is still busy with 16. Since Yoshida claimed 16 is already done and only need polish, I hope the writer will come back to 14 for future patches. As much as I appreciate Ishikawa, idk if I want more of her style of writing. Or maybe have matsuno as the writer lol (yeah i know it's next to impossible).

[SherlottaEryut]

A lot of people would deem my idea unoriginal and too recycled but... Honestly?

I would love nothing more than to return to Ivalice... Properly. Fran even suggested that we should work together again in future, when I saw her saying that I remember being filled with so much hope of being back in Rabanastre but in an MMO environment. Unfortunately, the "return to Ivalice" storyline wasn't well received in Japan, so any hopes of an expansion based around Ivalice is ruled out. Still though, one could hope maybe in future we may even see Eruyt village like how it was represented in XII.

[Lauront]

I'm kind of hoping that Elpis doesn't get involved in the 6.x MSQ anymore, because as much as I'd like to learn more about certain specifics of the Ancient era, I feel like they could've just as easily had us stumble across more locales akin to Akademia Aynder that managed to survive through the eons, especially given the mention of how abnormally durable their architecture was compared to what we're used to.

The storytelling becoming overly reliant on time travel and weird causal loops is...not a direction I want things to go in.

On a more positive note, I'd like if the 6.x MSQ mostly focuses on us going on little misadventures with each of the Scions; possibly laying low more stray blasphemies that are a bit too wily or dangerous for the alliance to deal with. I feel like things are going to blow up in the .3 patch again, though, but rather then it serving as the climax of the current storyline it's going to mark the appearance of a new threat that's big enough to warrant a trial and kicks off the bulk of the build-up to 7.x.

Much as I enjoy the ancients, I also loathe time travel and this expansion has intensified that, so I somewhat agree. I wouldn't say no to an ancient AU if they did it well, but they can figure out other methods too, I am sure, like making greater use of the Echo, historical archives etc.

HW writer is still busy with 16. Since Yoshida claimed 16 is already done and only need polish, I hope the writer will come back to 14 for future patches. As much as I appreciate Ishikawa, idk if I want more of her style of writing. Or maybe have matsuno as the writer lol (yeah i know it's next to impossible).

Yeah, hoping for the same here.

[Quintessa]

Well, not all of it.
Basically, everything before Meteion made her report was awesome, probably the best SE has ever done.
The final 15% or so dealing with what REALLY caused the Final Days felt rushed, full of plot holes and bizarre decisions.

Meteion spoiler:

Bringing in bird lady ruined it for me because it told me the whole rest of the story right there. It's the classic bring in new character that stands out big time and is actually the big bad that caused everything, along with the footsoldier that nobody not even the big bad, gives a crap about.

They could've made it a little more suspenseful or added a red herring.

[Lunalepsy]

What do you hope for? Mainly talking about with the story mode as it continues. The thing id like to have happen is more emotion from the WoL. Its definitely gotten better since the beginning, but I feel like there should be more opportunities to select what you want to say. I wonder if they could even implement a way for you to select how you want to react to certain things.

I dunno, I just want my character to do more than just act like a statue when I feel like they should react some other way.

Less godmodding.

[kpxmanifesto]

Sounds like you want another stormblood, which was arguably the worst expansion story wise.

I'm gonna disagree with this. Stormblood didn't really have me questioning the story as much as Endwalker did.